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Kribensis breeding...


Suz0905

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Just after some advice.

We purchased a tank a while ago that came with a pair of adult Kribs and several young. After a month or so we had to seperate the young from the parents as Dad was chasing them all over the place and generally hassling them.

So we thought we'd sell the parents, then the next day we noticed a mass of babies with Dad. So we kept them. Then something (?) happened and we lost all the babies. Disappeared. Eaten? There is one left who was about 1cm and being chased away, so we've moved him to our guppy fry tank where he is pretending to be a guppy.

We just advertised the parents for sale again and now there are a whole lot more babies!

We've only started fish keeping this year and all our knowledge about Kribs come from what we have read online, not from experience.

Any ideas what happened to the babies? And is it ok to move the fry if we sell them with the adults? Or if we keep them, what can we do to ensure the fry survive????

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Kribs will spawn regularly and get very territorial when they do.

The fry could be being eaten by any number of fish in the tank, including the parents.

You can keep the parents and sell the fry (it is OK to move the fry - assuming you can catch them!) or keep the fry and still sell the parents . The problem will keep going on if you raise the fry as they too will breed :-?

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Thanks... yeah they are in their own tank as they were very unfriendly towards other fish.

Might try and sell all of them then... if its ok to move them so young... as dont really want to keep a tank going just for them to keep breeding in. Too many tanks going!

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Yeah its currently both parents with the new babies, and the older (4-5cm) ones seperate. We dont actually want to breed them as we are wanting to sell them. But now they have breed I would like to see the little guys live!

The Dad is very protective at the moment and they are all following him around.. its very cool to watch. But he did that with the last lot too... before their disappearance! Will put some more plants for cover for them.. tho they are all just hanging with Dad atm.

Fingers crossed for them.

Hopefully we can find them a nice new home ... we have far tooooo many tanks going the power bill is insane!

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I believe the parents may turn on the older lot when the next lot hatch (but haven't actually bred kribs myself so someone else may dispute that) like angels do.

I've read a lot about that.

They see the older lot as a thread to the new lot and will kill/eat the older ones to protect the younger ones

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Yeah... Well ours definately turned on the older lot. We have a divider in the tank now to seperate them. The Mum and Dad both glide by the divider and 'go' any of the young ones that come near! We have put plenty of plants in so they cant see each other as much now!

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