Barrie Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 very supprising I would have thought they would have been too large Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psi Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Yeah, I've got three breeding quality males and two with massive kinks in their tails which won't be fathering anything...and one scrawny-looking female. I keep them in tanks with other fish - dwarf loaches and a borneo sucker - and haven't had any issues with them being eaten...so far. I definitely wouldn't mind coming across a few more females at the local petshop though, every now and then someone delivers a fair few and they all go pretty quickly. The only problem for me, apart from the fact they eat their babies, is that the females seem to very susceptible to the slightest stress (being hassled by a male perhaps) and end up suffering for it, whereas the males stay bright, active and completely healthy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Hi Psi Welcome to the forums! Could you please add you location to your profile via the User Control Panel - thanks. Good to see some more Killiphiles coming out of the woodwork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsweet Posted July 27, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 After reading up on these - somewhere it said they like to spawn in the roots of floating plants (mop) and seem not to eat their eggs or fry (yeah right) but having not made a mop yet, i put some java moss in weighted with a rock and some floating bits of ambulia. I checked the java moss today and found at least 15-20 eggs. Not risking anything, i've put the moss into my fry grow out part of the tank. Will be watching eagerly. Ps, have 2 bristlenose babies left at 2cm. They must have been too big to eat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zev Posted July 27, 2009 Report Share Posted July 27, 2009 Either that or they can hide very well! Congrats on the eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsweet Posted August 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 have 9 fry as of 7pm tonight :bounce: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rox Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 Fantastic, :bounce: they are beautiful fish. They (the male) caught my eye in the shop on the Thursday before the sale and I forgot about them on the day BUT thats cool we're not ready for Killies as yet! But at least I did recognise them as Killies although I do quite fancy Phils King Killies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 although I do quite fancy Phils King Killies who is Fancy Phil? is he a member? has he any that are not around now in the club? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsweet Posted August 1, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 who is Fancy Phil? is he a member? has he any that are not around now in the club? Might be Phil from Wanganui, he's a member of NZKA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rox Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 Yep that'll be him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barrie Posted August 1, 2009 Report Share Posted August 1, 2009 thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wok Posted August 5, 2009 Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 great news on the fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
imsweet Posted August 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 5, 2009 Thanks Wok, theyre huge compared to my other fry. Have had a good hatch rate too, only lost 1 fry so far. Probably about 25 hatched? about 1/2 anyway, still lots of eggs to go. :bounce: yay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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