Red Radix Breeding Projects 2012

[Dan72]

Update on CB2, the group of 11. Fed again today, I have 9 strong eaters that go right after it. I can see who the 2 weak links are going to be. So question, should I remove these two from the group and start giving special treatment, or keep together and hope they come around with the thriving members snapping them out of it??? I know failure to thrive, probably will lose some, but I don't want to. Trying to keep everyone alive.

[ConcinusMan]

So question, should I remove these two from the group and start giving special treatment, or keep together and hope they come around with the thriving members snapping them out of it???

For some reason, when I do that, (separate and give the weak ones special attention) it usually makes no difference. However, a couple of years ago I had a group of concinnus' that weren't doing too well. They either refused to eat, or didn't eat enough to keep on the weight. This was just 13 or so out of 50 babies. But by some miracle, even though the separating wasn't doing any good, when I shipped them off to Steve, nearly all of them did a 180 and are now thriving. Hmm.. I didn't expect that. I figured he'd lose at least half of them. He lost very few and the rest are now the "Ranch concinnus'"

[Dan72]

Just fed the other group, W/C1. All these guys are doing fine. All 9 seem to eat and hold their own. You can tell who the alpha guys are however.

[Dan72]

Here we have the other group CB2. Again, not all heads are present, got some shy ones in the bunch.

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