Recent content by Luis M

Please don´t :oops: It was produced by the heath of the discussion,we can blame Kervina for that :lol: .Anyway Fernando is a perfect portuguese name,so he won´t complain. :) I also called you "THE"Andy.My bad habit of not correcting what I write... I didn´t know you were browsing this forum.Good...

Kervina, This is not the place to engage in an academic debate about the self fertilization or sperm storage of Lysmata.However: What aquarists need to know is that it will be a lose of time to expect that a lone shrimp will produce fertile eggs.It just won´t happen.Ever. While I had seen...

Kervina, Take my word,Lysmata DON´T store sperm.Simoes paper was wrong about that and other references stem from it.

Yes,Lysmata shrimp are hermaphrodite.They lay eggs right after molting which are fertilized by the other partner.So it is perfectly normal that both of your shrimp are carrying eggs.They can not self-fertilize nor store sperm.Breeding them is easy,they never stop producing eggs every 2 weeks...

Pomacanthus, I was just checking the site and found that your old question wasn´t answered. I use 6 parts of bicarb.and 1 part of carb.Commercial buffers also contain some boric acid. Luis

Few people could raise the larvae,they are very tricky.Peppermints are much easier and a good species to begin with.

Well,Fishmark,I have been struggling with parasema since 1977 and only recently could I raise some few,now in 2nd generation. The larvae feed well on rotifers.Don´t give them Artemia,which seemingly produce sudden death at MMP time,20-25 dah.I add larval feeds at this time.Juveniles can take...

Well,Fishmark,I have been struggling with parasema since 1977 and only recently could I raise some few,now in 2nd generation. The larvae feed well on rotifers.Don´t give them Artemia,which seemingly produce sudden death at MMP time,20-25 dah.I add larval feeds at this time.Juveniles can take...

Well,I checked proaquatix hybrid and I fully agree with Martin.Hybridazing wild species is strongly discouraged for many biological,ecological and even ethical reasons.Yet it has always been a common practice when the hybrids due to their strange or beautiful features find a good share of the...

You are right Oceanarus.I see that Eleonard never posted again in his thread.It would help to know what made him think the fish was spawning in the first place.Most fish show external fertilization and at least two are needed to make it.

> Hi Chico, > Making your own Guillards is cheap and easy,you only need to have two > solutions prepared:NO3 and PO4.Make dilutions so you need to add 1 ml of > ea.per liter of final medium.Then you add commercial trace elements and > vitamins from your LFS. > Hope that helps, > Luis M