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RE: [GSAS-Member] Tanganikyan Lampeye Killifish



I kept and bred these fish, Lamprichthys tanganicanus, when I lived on the East Coast and had very hard, slightly basic tap water (18Gh, 8 Kh, pH 7.2). I added 1 tsp/gallon instant ocean to get closer to Lake Tanganyika conditions. I heated the tank to the mid-70's, these fish do not like it cold.

I agree with the poster - lots of room, plenty of food as it is one of the most active, gregarious fish I'd ever kept. I bred them with tightly wrapped killi spawning mops and got lots of really, really big eggs compared to, say, cichlid eggs or aphyosemion or nothobranchius eggs. I kept the eggs in a warm tank (in fact, usually in one of those 'lee's viewing tanks' suspended in the parents tank.) I also gently aireated the water in the viewer tank, never had a fungus problem and ended up raisng two generations. Problem with the fish is that you get skewed sex ratios, in my case I got a lot of females per male

Matt

From: "Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>
Reply-To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat<gsas-member@thekrib.com>
To: "GSAS Member Chat" <gsas-member@thekrib.com>
Subject: [GSAS-Member] Tanganikyan Lampeye Killifish
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:38:47 -0800

This is regarding the Tanganikyan Lampeye Killifish, has anyone besides Kate
and Heidi ever try this fish?

Susan

-----Original Message-----
From: marvin uza [mailto:syno93@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 9:47 PM
To: welenofsky@comcast.net
Subject: killi

susan,
i hear that a lot of people have had trouble keeping these fish. i've been
keeping this species off and on for the past 10 years and i'll tell you what

i've learned keeping them. first, these are very nervous and easily startled

schooling fish that do best in a group of at least a dozen. second, they are

very active fish with a high metabolism and i feel that a high protein diet
is best so at least 2 feedings a day with frozen and dry foods. third, keep
them in as big a tank as possible. i have about 40 3-4 inch fish in a 180
gallon tank. and finally, keep their water clean. they polute the water very

quickly with their heavy appetites. i do 50% weekly water changes with
straight tap water with no additives and here are my water parameters:
hardness 120-180 ppm tds, ph 6.8-7.2, temp 78-82.my hardness and ph are very

low from the tap  and work great for my dwarf cichlids. what is puzzling is
that these killis come from a lake where the water is very hard and the ph
is in the 8-9 range. hope this information helps your friend.

marvin





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