WOOT Prego black kuhli!

Dwarf Puffers

Dwarf Puffers

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Last night when I was looking at my tank, I watched the two kuhlis who've been snuggling in the roots of one of my more dense and "fluffy" plants. Now that her stomach looks like a submarine, I'm just wondering what to do :confused:

I know if I leave her in there, she'll undoubtedly lay her eggs and they'll be eaten. But if I move her, will she lay them at all?

And no, I haven't searched Loaches.com or anything similar yet, but I will be now. Couldn't keep you waiting ;)


Edit: Just read Richard Bias' article on Loaches.com... Wondering if I should move all of my black kuhlis to the 15 gallon and fill it with largish rocks, java moss, and fluffy plants (trying to get lots of little live animals for food).

As for feeding besides that, I only have a 5x3x1 packet of brine shrimp eggs, but it seems his grew to 1" on nothing more than gravel pickings...

(Note: sand under the gravel)
 
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Congrats!
 
So, what should I do? Leave her in there? Or switch her and the others to a smaller tank where, if the young hatch, they have much better chances of surviving?
 
Yes, Lup, I'm going to move my 40 or so other fish to my unnoccupied tanks :silly:


I think I'll put her in the 15g. Thin layer of sand on the bottom, very large gravel on top for the eggs to drop through and the fry to live under (read the Loaches.com article, although I have a feeling you already have, many, many times ;)), lots of java moss and my wierd fluffy plant that the female is so fond of hiding under, mainly for cover and to grow little critters to eat.

Sound good?
 
Good luck DP! I think if you want a serious chance of babies you should move them along with a sponge filter or 2. My kuhlis are almost always egg filled but nothing like some of the tubbies I've seen pics of at LOL They don't seem to change much.

Are they p. oblonga?
 
Yep
 
Good luck catching them. Cornering a kuhli in any tank, much less one that has any sort of object in it, including water, is just about impossible.
 
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