My Nothobranchius killifish Journal

[Jody]

Hi All

This is my first try at killifish so far so good :dance:

I ordered 210 eggs from E Bay

1. 35- Rachovii Berira 98 eggs
2. 35- N. Patrizii eggs
3. 35- Palmquisti
4. 35- N. Eggersi Red
5. 35- Foerschi
6. N. Guenther

Received the eggs last week from Thailand

Hatch date was Aug. 5


Day 1

So i set up my hatching containers and raising containers using water from a established tank

Water parameters are :
PH- 7.2
KH- 4.5 DH
GH- 3.5 DH
TDS- 350
Temp. 22C

Each rasing container has hornworth and 2 MTS

 

[allaboutfish]

awesome. you better make sure that when theyre big enough the containers are covered.

 

[Jody]

Day 2

placed the peat moss and eggs in each labeled hatching container

Baby brine shrimp cooking

 

[Jody]

After a few hours i went back to check the eggs

Here is what i found

1. Foerschi- 10 fry hatched and moved to raising container ( After there wiggle stage )
2. N. Eggersi Red 16 fry
3. Rochovii Beira 98. 33 fry and still 3-4 wigglers in there think the egg count was off.

4. N. patrizii 0 fry
5. Palmquisti 0 fry
6. N Guenther 0 fry

I well leave all the hatching container out for next 2 days then i well dry and wet them again in 2 weeks maybe i well get more fry

Over all much better then i had hoped

My eyes are bugged out now the fry are so small and im trying to catch them with a eye dropper , my wife and I are doing shifts

 

[sora1600]

Hopefully the others hatch and good luck! They're small but once you start feeding them, they grow so fast that it surprises you.

 

[Jody]

Here are the tools of the trade

FYI the Cat was no help :lol2:

 

[digitalphrage]

How long did it take to get the eggs after placing the order? Did it take awhile?

I've considered buying some of the eggs from those sellers but I wasn't sure about the quality of the eggs, but it sounds like you had pretty good luck with the rachovia Biera, which are the ones I'd want to get. So, maybe I'll give it a try.

 

[TheFishBoss97]

cool, looking good
yeah, i bet they grow fast too, most fry grow super fast


i bet that cat ate some babies

 

[Jody]

Day 3


Ok just got up and went out and checked the fry , they all look good no deaths as of yet .

Checked the hatching containers and this is what i got

Foerschi - 2 fry 12 now in total
N Eggersi - 3 fry 19 in total
Rochovii Beira 98 - 6 fry 39 in total
N.Guentheri - 1 fry in total
N. Patrizii - 4 fry in total

Grand total of 75 fry :y220e:

I feed them last night but don't think they ate much , maybe it was to early for brine shrimp probably lots of infusoria there for them right now.

I well suck up the leftover baby brine shrimp now. I used one drop of baby brine shrimp per raising container



It was something like 26 days delivery time so maybe the summer is best time to get the eggs

 

[SubRosa]

cool, looking good
yeah, i bet they grow fast too, most fry grow super fast


i bet that cat ate some babies

As far as growth rates these types of fish are by far the fastest ime. Stands to reason when in their natural environment the odds of them seeing their first birthday are slim at best. Properly fed and cleaned they should be practically full grown and breeding by Halloween.