Kriber Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 I currently have a sore neck from watching my kribs spawn in a little cave in the comm. tank. Other than the parents the only fish that might feast on the eggs are two marliers julie which are both smaller than the kribs and a Sail-fin pleco/red gibbiceps (Pterygoplichthys gibbiceps) which is probably about 10cm. Neon tetras, zebra danios, cherry barbs, swordtails, oto's and siamese algae eaters wouldn't trouble the parents would they? And after all the trouble I went to today to saw a pot in half to make some caves for when I was going to put the Kribs in the breeding tank! The little buggers beat me to it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueram Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Hi Kriber, The pair of Kribs that I have are my favourite fish. When they spawned the first time in a breeding tank, all the Cory cat fish had to be evacuated before they were harassed in to fish heaven!! The Kribs are wonderful parents and that is properly why I have so many fry!!! The fish that you mention won't stop them from raising their young, but be prepared for World War 3. I will probably find most of the other fish harassed in to a corner of your tank. For some funny reason when I put the Kribs in the community tank and they spawned, the male and female started to fight and had to be separated. In the end I lost this batch of fry as female was nearly badly injured. Now their back together with the first back of juv fry and no problems to note!! Blueram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 I hope mine don't fight, at the monent they seem quite preoccupied chasing other fish away although they don't chase them very far. They did both leave the cave unguarded when I just fed them but all the other fish are too busy with the food as well, its quite funny to see neons get in amongest it with the kribs and marliers when I stick some freeze dried tubifex worms to the side of the tank Can you tell yet if you get predominately one sex in your batches of fry? I've read the pH and hardness of the water might determine the sex of the fry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueram Posted February 9, 2003 Report Share Posted February 9, 2003 Kriber, Your right pH and hardness of the water does determine the sex of the fry. My fry are males and ph at the time of spawning the ph would have been between 6-6.5. The reason for the low ph is due to being in a heavily planted tank. Water here in Auckland is normally 7.2 and a low hardness (i.e. soft water) Hope this helps! Blueram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 Thanks Caryl for your response to my terracota pot query 50, 25, now I'm down to just 2 krib eggs unless they've moved them elsewhere and are not guarding them. I've heard they will spawn again in about 2 weeks if they eat all their eggs the 1st time, but I'm wondering how many times they will spawn every 2 weeks before they take a rest? Does moving the adults to a breeding tank disturb them so much that it could take a month or more for them to settle down? What's happened for some of you guys? I can't move them yet as the Breeding tank is full of zebra danio eggs (i wish only about 80 viable eggs out of approx 170, damn fungus) so it will be around 6 weeks til I can try them out in there. I'd rather try and breed kribs but I owe it to the zd's to give them another chance after I probably poisoned the 1st batch :oops: Kriber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueram Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 Kriber, It took me about 2 months before my kribs breed in thier breeding tank. I was feeding flake and boldworm which they really do enjoy!! Your in no rush are you? Breed the zd's and then try the kribs out.Blueram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 10, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 It might just be a coincidence but I had only been feeding dry and freeze dry foods since I've had my tank and very recently I've fed frozen bloodworms, about twice in the last week and now the kribs spawned - concidence or not? I hope so It would be good to have a trigger to help induce the kribs to breed I'm in no real rush, I was considering putting the breeding tank in the garage (its currently in my room - air pump and all :evil: ) so I would forget about it (you know the watched pot never boils ) as I spend to much time looking at my fish! One thing about zd's they spawn easy. Put them in breeding trap the size of a supermarket basket at 10:30pm one night, spawned the next day just after 8:00am. Waiting 2 months will seem like ages, although they did spawn in the comm. tank after about 1 month, still its a lot longer than 10hrs to wait Cheers Blueram P.S. I've read that rams and kribs don't get on, and rams were the last fish I wanted for the comm. tank (yeah right!) have you kept them together? Kriber, over and out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blueram Posted February 10, 2003 Report Share Posted February 10, 2003 Kriber, Yes it does seem that bloodworm is a love potion. Be careful to unfreeze the worms in a net before adding it to your tank. If not your water will foul up soon. :oops: :oops: I haven't put rams and kribs together in a tank as all the rams that I have bought have died after a couple of months. I have purchased 6 rams in the past!!! The other problem with rams is that they only live for 2 years or so. I know a breeder in AKL and he has good stock, but I don't have the space at the moment. Take Care Blueram Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 I currently have two breeding pairs of Kribs. The pair in my 5 fott community tank have have a batch swimming out and about for about a week. There a about 50 or so (rough guess). The pair I put in a tank by themselves have successfully raised over 250 (stopped counting when I got to that figure). There are about 40 still with the parents, I have sold some and the rest are in a four foot tank with about 150 Angels babies growing on. Not sure what to do with them all really. :lol: I have had a few suggestions to use them as feeder fish but I am not keen on that and they are now over 1 inch long so only biggish would be able to munch on them anyway. However if worse comes to worse then I will hand them over to other club members for food (sorry little guys). I am going to split the pair up in the community tank as they are pretty nasty to everything else in there. I look at my tank tonight and half the tank empty except for a male Krib patrolling the edges like a border guard while 15 other fish crammed down the other end of the tank. Seems you only have to wave a bloodworm at them and provide a hiding place and there you go ... babies. No effort required! Very pretty fish though. I will never get sick of looking at the amazing colour changes they go through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriber Posted February 18, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 Ahh, my Kribs must be ready to spawn again soon (look at the date of this post, damn at least another week :evil: ). Hey Cat, how long did/do your Kribs take between spawns if they eat them? I've read about 2 weeks. Also what fish can successfully eat the fry? In my comm. tank with the kribs I have; neons, cherry barbs, zebra danios, marliers julie, oto's, swordtails, a guppy, siamese flying foxes and a sailfin pleco - yeah that's it! It's just I thought the parents could defend them against most of the other tank occupants until I read that 'wimpy' neon tetras work quite successfully in teams to distract then feed on Krib fry. Any ideas? Cheers, Kriber Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat Posted February 18, 2003 Report Share Posted February 18, 2003 In the tank they are in I have large angels, large clown loaches, bala shark, barbs and rainbows. Not sure who it is but if I leave the light on the fry dont get touched. If I turn the light off when the fry are out mum krib cant get them into bed in time and the fry number slowly diminishes over night. If I turn the light off but have the lounge light on then the fry are rounded up and put back to bed in the log before it gets pitch dark. Clever little sods these Kribs!! :lol: I have had them in other tanks with different sorts of fish and all have had fry disappear so maybe everything that can get their mouths on them has them for supper. Not sure at the size they are now that too many would eat them but I suppose there is always some hungry fish willing to give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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