Babies!!!

[ChicoRaton]

huzzah! my kribensis just had kids, after 4 months of fighting they decided they liked each other, and now I have about 50 little kribs (->) <-- That big. I didn't see them until today. the parents made a really hidden nest dug out underleath a rock. So yeah, that's pretty cool

 

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

yay! they should be good parents
remember to feed the little un's several times a day.... i use an eyedropper to get the food right down there but the parents tend to do a pretty good job feeding the babies themselves. i dont trust them though!

isnt it cute watching them lead the fry on little 'feeding excursions' around the tank? hehehehe

congrats

 

[ChicoRaton]

judging from the size of the babies the parents have been doing a decent job of feeding them. Since my tank is heavily planted in areas, and I don't vacuum the substrate at all, and it's been set up for... I don't know exactly but about 6 or 7 months now... I imagine there are all sorts of microfauna in there they're feeding on, but I did try to target feed with some frozen daphnia that I thawed and squished all up into daphnia soup... I couldn't tell for sure if they were eating since I couldn't see the female or the babies. They were hiding in their cave.

It's funny watching the male be all macho and try to chase everyone away, esp. the cory cats I have in there. They just wander around aimlessly looking for food then BLAM a huge male krib body slams them then they keep swimming around like nothing happened I was considering getting another tank to use as a grow-out container, but I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that.

hehe, my mom said "Geez, why don't you just move the whole fish store into your bedroom, you might as well with so many tanks!".... I have one 55 gallon set up right now... I don't get her sometimes

 

[Cat]

Great new Chico, check out my tread from the other day as Im in a similar situation, see what happended when I tried to move my little family!

 

[ChicoRaton]

I finally was able to catch the new family out on a feeding excursion!

not all the babies are visible though. They had then all out in the open but I didn't have the camera of course. Sorry about the low picture quality. I was in a rush to get them before they disappeared again so I set it to 1600 iso and program mode and fired away.

Cat: I did read that thread, sorry to hear about that. I plan to leave these little guys with the parents. I probably won't get many surviving to adulthood but I'm not worried too much about that since I don't have room for them anyway teehee this is so much fun

 

[NatakuTseng]

Awesome picture Chico! Another food I reccomend for feeding little guys are called Golden pearls, they simulate brineshrimp in the water column. You can get them from http://www.kensfish.com high protein and just all around awesome stuff.

 

[~*LuvMyKribs*~]

awesome picture!
that is the size that the babies usually 'emerge' at. i would say they are about a week old since they hatched? maybe a little less..... its hard to say my kribs always kept their babies well hidden in thier cave until they were that size... about a week and a half or so after laying the eggs i think. maybe a little longer.

just remember to feed them lots