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 -0800This is regarding the Tanganikyan Lampeye Killifish, has anyone besides Kateand 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 beenkeeping this species off and on for the past 10 years and i'll tell you whati've learned keeping them. first, these are very nervous and easily startledschooling fish that do best in a group of at least a dozen. second, they arevery 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 180gallon tank. and finally, keep their water clean. they polute the water veryquickly 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 verylow 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 _______________________________________________ GSAS-Member mailing list GSAS-Member@thekrib.com http://lists.thekrib.com/mailman/listinfo/gsas-member
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