[marine590622]

We just recently started a new fish club here in Madison, to include a breeders award program.

Part of the challenge of the breeders award program is that a percentage of your points have to be from breeding harder to spawn fish.

So in addition to keeping and breeding the fish that I personnally want to breed, I also keep an eye out for fish that are more difficult to spawn. (As a founding member of our new club, I am trying to develope interest in our club and Breeders awards Program by setting an example) These laser corries are going to fit the bill as a harder to breed species, in addition to which I love the colors and would like to have these going in several of my tanks.

[mikev]

[marine590622]

Our BAP program has a diffinitive list of seven or eight questions regarding the difficulty of breeding for each specific species.

I do not have the list of questions at hand but we started with the bap points of the Milwaukee club and then adjusted from there, We have a standing policy that you may submit a request to have the points for a species reevaluated prior to your submission. As part of the policy you have to answer each of these questions.

If I remember correctly, if the species has specific dietary requirements,
if the species has specific water chemistry requirements
etc.
etc
etc.

I personnaly am of a two minds when it comes to the whole idea of the BAP program, In one regard I believe it encourages people to get a species in, breed it, dump the fry, and dump the parents and move on.

And with a lot of what I enjoy doing, that is not the approach that I want to take. I would like to see our BAP program adjusted to give bonus points for things like aquiring a species as eggs, raising to adult, and then succesfully spawning the species.

As regards the issue of chancing the fry to strangers, we have a hold-back available once per year, so if you are working with something that is very rare or expensive you can use your hold back to keep the fry yourself,

In addition the prices on our BAP auctions have not gotten that out of hand to date, so if I am concerned about something I am bringing in, I will just bid on it myself, the club still gets the money, but I get to keep my fry.

[mikev]

I do wonder how BAP figures out which cories are difficult... they all have pretty similar water and diet requirement....

[Mark~N]

now This is something worth working with..
I like challenges..

[mikev]

This is one of the two entries I've been considering (the other is A.Albater, available from both Frank and E.Bodrock now)....not to worry, I'm not bidding now, if any cory, it would be C.Rabauti.

Nice fish and a better price too...

[Mark~N]

Didn't even seeThose til you mentioned it!
Very nice indeed!.And not a large Cory species either! right up my alley... I mean ... your alley

[mikev]

I think I told you about them when AmazonBasement was selling them (those incidentally were also juveniles bred by Bodrock)... really nice, but it is impossible to have every nice cory that exists....so I'm salivating but passing.

Nay, with that photo you convinced me that I want Rabauti's before anything else.....

OFFTOPIC: something that occurred to me. Maybe the reason I'm not getting any eggs from C.Pygmeus is the presence of Endlers in their tank? It never occurred to me but some people claim that guppies are bad egg eaters... any idea?

[Mark~N]

didn't realize they were from Eric, who we know has some nice rare cory's too.
hmmm. wouldn't have the slightest about elders or guppies.never kept either

[mikev]

4Mark:

[marine590622]

I do not keep anything in with my Endlers that I want to breed. I would be willing to bet that is what is happening.

[Mark~N]

It was time to move another group to a new tank.

I decided they would do good with a group of gertrdaea raised at the same time to a 30gal in my Bow Den

[rainbowbratt]