Aloha Hawaii! just trying to share some pics of my panchax killifish. as of today i have a total 8 frys hatch, i got them for 3 weeks now, i have them on 2 5 gallon tanks with breeding trio on each
Golden Panchax killifish
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thats the one on the pic, i took those pics yesterday. and for information, websites saying that since golden panchax goes up to 4 inches they need a pair on a 10 gallon minimum breeding tank, this is not true. i have trios on a 5 gallon tanks, and they are breeding daily. my diet Artemia, Frozen blood worms, Dried Mysis shrimp and Dried Bloodworms, i feed them 3 times a day with 3 diffrent varities. also adding ghost shrimps inside the egg incubation container, prevent egg fungus. and one more thing try not to put gravel inside the tank, i have problems with them putting eggs by the gravel making less eggs to harvest on the spawning mop. just bare tank with your spawning mop for great harvest success
mellowvision
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I've always worried that shrimp would eat my killi eggs, but I don't have anything with eggs as large as the golden's... That's a nice technique for the larger eggs. I've been using Alder cones for fungus prevention with pretty good results.
Nice fish!
Nice fish!
i'm pretty sure this ghost shrimp method will work in all plant spawning killies, other uses cherry shrimp but ghost shrimp seems to do the job and way cheaper, here in hawaii 10 ghost shrimp for $1.00. they do a better job than butting methlyne blue or any other med., i never had a fungus problem ever since ive use the ghost shrimp
update, total of 118 as of this week including today 7/11/10, also my ghost shrimps are breeding too! more killifish egg guardians on its way
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i need to put them all in small containers with java moss and 2 ghost shrimps on each. i have two 5 gallon tanks with breeding trio on each, thats why so much eggs, i bought those cheap containers at price buster so i can stock them up in my cabinet
Can't you spare another tank and just put them there? It would be so much easier to just have them all in one place.
well having them in a small containers, i can monitor the eggs better, also i wanna make sure the Ghost shrimp guardians gets thier meal when i add small shrimp meal for them, also water changes using a small baster. also some will hatch late and the 1st batch are big enough to hurt the small newly hatch because even they are layed at the same day, they don't hatch the same time some might be a week late. so i also have 2 containers, one are for bigger frys, and one for small frys that are one week old, once the other frys are big enough, i let them join the older ones. better survival success that way