Weather in Adelaide is getting a bit on the cold side of late, and hampering not only BBS hatching times, and the ability to keep a female in a separate tank during the introduction period, but also my ability to bend as well as I need to...and the fact that my gold HMPK pair spawned and then the male ate all the eggs...has led me to require an off season.
So, no more spawns for the time being. I'm thinking nothing till late September, when the weather should be well and truly warming up, maybe not even till October if need be.
Yes, it will slow down all the breeding programs I've got on the go, and all the lines waiting to be done, but so be it. I need some down time as well. I've been at this, flat chat, for a little over a year, so before I just burn out, I think a rest will do me good.
I'm not going away. I'm not packing it in. Just pressing pause on the spawns for a month or two.
I'm thinking June through to the end of August will work nicely for me as a break from now on...actually, I'm quite looking forward to sleeping in occasionally instead of getting up everyday to feed fry...and, as I wont be running so many tanks, there should be a drop in the electricity bill :)
This is not the end of posting on this blog during this time either. I'm expecting a new arrival soon, and then I'll post some pics of what is currently in the fish room, plans for the next 9 months once the on-season returns :)
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