Our eggs have arrived

[imported_lily]

Hi Ronnie

Can you try this link and see if it works if not I will pm you the password.
http://community.webshots.com/user/lilychoo
Those that hatched during the journey were dead upon arrival, I have 3 fry and 3 good eggs now

Thank you for the recommendation, I have registered myself with the latter but still not sure how to create albums and upload pictures.

[timebomb]

The link works fine, Lily. I saw the pictures. Looks like you have compiled quite a good album of killifish pictures.

My eggs haven't hatched yet. On Au's advice, I took out the eggs of my Fp. sjoestedti (SJO VAKA) and dried them again. Au said the eggs have to be wet and dried several times before they can hatch. But take note this is applicable only to eggs of the SJO so don't do that with your Aphyosemion eggs.

My eyes are really bad so I have to rely on my domestic help, Esperanza to see the eggs for me. She said the SJO eggs look good and well-developed. She described them as looking like "longans". For our foreign friends, "longans" are a type of fruit with white flesh and a seed that is big and black. Esperanza also said she can see the embryos wriggling inside the eggs.

Au, do you think, considering that the eggs are well-developed, that maybe I should leave them in the hatching tray instead? I'm worried that they may hatch and the fry will die if the peat isn't inside water.

Loh K L

[CM Media]

Hi Kwek Leong,

I suggest you dry the peat and wet them on the 3 day again. My experience tells me that the eggs will die with left in the hatching tray. I've no idea why but this had happened to me several times! Now Ihave about 12 happy SJO fry swimming happily in the tray using the 'wet and dry method'.

[timebomb]

Okay, thanks, Au.

Just one more question - I'm unsure how dry the peat should be but I left it a little wet. Here's a picture:



Is it too wet?

Loh K L

[turaco]

refer to Tim Addis's site on West African Killies. highly informative website.

Yes, highly recommended. For those who has yet visit, here's the link:
http://www.killifish.f9.co.uk/Killif...site/Index.htm

Gan.

[CM Media]

Hi Kewk Leong,

The wetness on the peat seems OK to me. Put it in a container and cover it up to prevent excessive loss of moisture and if it's too dry, the eggs will die.

Good Luck

[RonWill]

For my Aphyosemion exigoideum 'Ngoudoufola', I found 5 good eggs, Ron when will these eggs hatch, it stated on the container collected 13 - 15 Nov, all eye-up already.

Eric, my exigoideum was collected on NOV 9th and it says "WET NOW!".

I dunked the dish on the same night, ie. NOV 20th. By 21st, there was 2 frys and by 22nd, there were 3.

Nov 9th ~ 20th = 11 days. Taking 13th as your start date, hypothetically, wetting date should be 24th ~ 26th. However, if you're sure the eggs are eyed-up, I'm guessing you can wet now, since Ap. are usually water incubated anyway. Sadly, I can't find any more eggs in my dish.

As an example, my AUS Chocolate averages between 7~12 days for eggs that are developing normally. I do have some eggs from the same collection date that are still clear, but not dead. These may be 'resting' eggs that will start developing at a later date.

[Eric Yeo]

Ron, thanks for the info on Aphyosemion exigoideum 'Ngoudoufola'.
As for my Aphy. striatum 'Lamberene', I got 12 fry but could not find the other 11 egg.
Eric Yeo

[turaco]

9 Aphy. striatum 'Lambaréné' fry hatched(out of 13) after a change of the water in the small container where the eggs are kept. Today is the 10th day from collection.

Selamat Hari Raya to all our muslim friends

Gan.

[KK]

Aphy. christyi 'Kinshasa' - Finally 2 fries & 4 eyed up eggs on top of the peat.
Aphy. bivittatum 'Funge CI 91 - There are 4 fries & i see 3 bad eggs. Can't see any other eggs

[timebomb]

I've got good and bad news,

Good news is I wet the SJO peat today and a few hours later, there were 9 fry

Bad news is my hard disk crashed again Sending this post from my daughter's computer. Won't be as active as usual in the next few days. Those who are supposed to meet at Karin's place this Friday at 8.30 pm, please remember to turn up.

In the meantime, it's going to be Timeout for Timebomb

Loh K L[/b]

[A.Rashid]

Au,

Currently I only have 6 SJO frys since last Sunday. I have been searching for more eggs but to no avail. should I dry the peat like Loh did? and wait for another 3 more days to wet them again.... not that I am dissapointed of the hatched rate.... juz that I do not want to kill any killis...

regards
Rashid.

[CM Media]

Rashid,

If you're disappointed with the hatch, then what I can say is forget about ordering eggs from overseas!

You're lucky to have such hatch on SJO and those who had ordered them brfore can tell you how's their hatch. What you need is just a pair to start.

I suggest you dry the peat for a 3 days and then wet them again. Look at KL with his happy hatch! Please dry the peat or else the SJO eggs may die off. Don't ask me why as I myself do not have the answer but this had happened to me on all my last batches of SJO.

When I started to work on SJO, I have noone to ask and that's why I couldn't succeed hatching them! Last night, I forced hatched 4 SJO eggs and all hatched out after 8 hours. I'm not sure how's the fry doing now.

[A.Rashid]

Thanks Au. will dry the peat when I get back today.
and 1 more thing will collect from you the notho eggs tomorrow after my class.

[timebomb]

Rashid, If you're disappointed with the hatch, then what I can say is forget about ordering eggs from overseas!

Au, I think Rashid was quite clear in his post that he isn't disappointed with the hatch-rate so there's no reason to be upset by his question. Anyway, thanks to your advice, I now have 9 SJO fry. I dried the peat again today and saw another 2 good eggs inside. I'm quite sure there are more but I didn't want to dig around in the peat and disturb the eggs. I will follow your instructions and wet the peat again in another 3 days.

Honestly, I'm delighted with 9 fry but I will be jumping with joy if there are more.

Loh K L

[Eric Yeo]

Wow! Loh fantastic , your is SJO also known Blue Gularis?
Eric Yeo

[A.Rashid]

Congrats Loh on your SJOs.... just dried my peat this evening and hopefully more frys will come...if not the current 6 frys will do....that will mean must really really take good care of them....


so have you fix your crashed hard disk yet?

[RonWill]

Dear all,

I've done up a little webbie, like a diary of sorts, to log down the experience of our egg-order.

It serves both as a personal reference and a souce of satisfaction when the page can guide or help someone out.

As my free host Angelfire, allocates a certain and limited bandwidth, do try again if at first you don't succeed in loading the page.

'Da linkie is here. Enjoy!

Present status:
Aphyosemion exigoideum 'Ngoudoufola' - still 3 frys. Changed 100% of hatching water and hope to stimulate hatching of remaining eggs (which I really can't find!).

[zmzfam]

Hi people,

Sorry I did not do an early update on the eggs I ordered. Anyway, here it is:

Aphy cognatum 'kinsuka'
received 16 eggs, wet them and got 14 frys, 2 bad

Fp filamentosus 'Ikeja'
Thanks to Au for wetting them as I could not get it from him on Monday. Only collected on Wednesday afternoon. Managed to get 14 fries. Will be drying the peat for re-hatching.

I guess I'm lucky to get such a good hatch or it could be that I ordered the easy species.

[RonWill]

Hey Zul, that's a very good hatch!! Congrats! The fun part is now to raise them!

My fry-count now stand at;
Aphyosemion Exigoideum 'Ngoudoufola' = 6 frys (out of 19)
Rivulus xiphidius 'PK 15' = 8 frys (out of 25 from two dishes)

I've updated the 'egg page' with more pics. Enjoy!