Data collection

Hello members of the GWG!

I have been thinking for a couple of weeks, how to collect breeding data from our members. What you can not see, when you look at the species' description, is, that there is a (hidden) part predesigned, called care & breeding, something, that is missing on this website. We offer a lot of information, but nothing how to keep our species. My wish has been to collect different ways of breeding: Everyone who keeps a species, should tell us, how he does. Here in this part of the descriptons should be stored pdfs from our members how they breed the correlated species.

Well, knowing that no one of us has too much time to offer, I thought of making it simpler to collect the maintenancy reports, not by forcing everyone to write a long sheet about. Outgoing from a prepared GWG data sheet from the French regional group, designed for the members area, I extracted a data sheet that I present here to have a look at and to comment. If it is accepted widely, we can fill in the data about we keep our fish quite fast and present these data on our site, giving especially new and unacquainted members the chance to select the needed information and find their own way of breeding the fish.

I know, some species are very strict to limiting factors, like temperature, food, aso, others are not. These data sheets should be a compendium of our knowledge and experience. I think - for each species - there is not THE correct way of breeding, there are sometimes more, and everyone who breeds his fish successfully, has find an efficient way. I have also prepared an Allotoca dugesii data sheet, as a pattern, how such a data sheet could be filled in. It shows how I breed my Allotoca dugesii, in this case, the population from the Río Santiago. These location is not the big Río Santiago watering the Lago de Chapala, but a small creek south of the lake, watering into a small lagoon very close to the lake. The fish from Rancho el Molino, I maintain in the same way, but associatated with Zoogoneticus purhepechus and having divergent numbers of sexes.

Please, have a look at and tell me about your opinion, changes, what is missing, what is irrelevant aso. I am curious about you will say:-)

I wish you all the best, Mike