Hi all,

I was wondering if anybody has had trouble with their Kribs in the past?

I hadn’t seen my male Krib in the last week in my 100L planted cube. The tank also included a female Krib and about 30 male fry (1 inch). I finally found my male Krib (6 inches) dead beneath a couple of sword plants.

I did have any problems with the pair when I bought them 6 months ago, but after raising their first batch of fry I moved them to my larger planted tank to see if they would breed again. They did but the male and female kept on fighting, so I decided to separate them, the second batch of fry were soon lost to all the other community fish in the second tank.

I placed them back together in the original breeding tank and saw on aggression and thought that the third batch of fry were on their way. But that is when I found my dead male.

Anybody have any ideas??

The funny thing is that the female is looks absolutely stunning at the moment. Here coloration in her belly is bright purple and gold in her dorsal fin is as bright as a flame angle!!!

I too had problems with match making. i had two pairs that fought lots. I decided to split them up and I put the two females in one tank and left the two males alone. When I decided to put them back together I had (of course) forgotten which female was originally with what male so I just dumped one in with each male and both of them instantly got along. I wondered if maybe they didnt like their original mates or whether they just decided to get along this time. Who knows but it produced well over 300 fry (90% which have survived). I have now gone down to one pair that I dont want to make babies at this stage as still have a large number of babies!! They are having some time out from each other at the moment. Hopefully that doesnt lead to divorce! :lol:

Yes, they spawned around 20 days ago, ate their eggs and haven't spawned again approx. 2 weeks later like I've read they often do. Bought them from the same shop (probably dumb move) but they never fight. Better go feed them some frozen bloodworms.