Re: [GSAS-Member] Kribs

[Kathy Olson <kathy@thekrib.com>]

Hi,

I have had kribs kill of a whole school of 6-8 angel fish (over quarter 
size, more like half dollar) in a 75 gallong tank defending fry.  I 
thought I cleared them all out, only to discover a whole other set of fry 
in the sump tank.

They are now in our rainbow tank and successfully spawning with 6 full 
grown rainbow fish and about 30 other kribs.  A pair has just claimed the 
corner of the ?45 gallon tank for theirs.

The current strain we started in the club a few years back, actually came 
from wild caught fish that I picked up at ACA in sacramento.  It was 
pretty cool to see wild caught ones so I had to pick them up again. 
Awesome color on them.

If they are big enough, some of the stores may trade you store credit for 
them.  Some of the stores recognize that locally grown and raised 
fish/plants do better and they get good referals for.  It sometimes takes 
a bit to grow that relationship at the store and may depend on who is 
working there that day.

Welcome to the club.

Kathy


-- 
Kathy
"Perhaps wisdom is simply waiting, and healing a question of
time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.".....from
Kitchen Table Wisdom by Rachel Naomi Remen




On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, dave@cheapfishstuff.com wrote:

> Hi, John.
>
> Doubtless it will depend a lot on the size of the tank, amount of cover,
> etc.  They would make a gorgeous tank mate combination, wouldn't they?
>
> My personal experience has been male kribs can get very aggressive with
> almost everything in the tank (had one beating up on my dwarf plecostomus,
> which couldn't possibly look anything like another krib to it) when
> they're in the mood to mate which is, well, pretty near always.
>
> BUT, with lots of cover, in a large (say, 55 gallon) tank, I suspect it
> could be OK.  My impression is kribs stay pretty close to the nest when
> feeling territorial as long as they can't see anyone encroaching.
> Obviously, YMMV.
>
>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Do you know if kribs can co-mingle with blue rams?  I was interested in
>> building out a theme but don't want to stir up any aggression in the tank.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:57 PM, <dave@cheapfishstuff.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, all... new guy here.  I'm really appreciating the discussion threads
>>> going past at the moment, lots of good info.
>>>
>>> So, a newbie question:  Do auctions happen every monthly meeting?  Are
>>> the
>>> details described somewhere I didn't find on the gsas.org site?
>>>
>>> My kribs have just had their second batch of fry (first batch is about
>>> 1/2-inch long), and I can see I'm very quickly going to have a space
>>> problem...
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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