My first post! And photos of N. eggersi

[greenmiddlefinger]

Well, please everyone entertain my newbie post.
I was really excited when I found this forum, because there seem to be aquarists here of exceedingly high skill/knowledge level. Plus, killifish are just plain exciting of course.

Anyway, I thought I'd share photos of my eggersi. A lot of killies recently sprung up locally! Usually I only see normanies but one of my local shops recently made arrangements with a breeder, and right now there are about 4 species for sale. Well, here are my photos:

[TyroneGenade]

Hello Mr. Middlefinger (you may want to share your real name with us)

That is nice looking male you have there in what looks like a lovely lush tank but that female looks like she needs some TLC. You best isolate her and feed her up a bit else you are going to loose her. You may also want to check out this thread to see how to spawn the fish in your planted tank. (But you may want to try some orchestrated spawning in over a whole substrate of peat just incase your fish are not familiar with how Loh's fish do it.)

Regards

[stormhawk]

Hi there Greenie (what's your real name?),

Welcome to the forum. A very nice male there indeed but a very emaciated female too. You better fatten her up soon otherwise she'll just start wasting away.

By the way, your eggersi looks like the Ruhoi River population of eggersi.

[greenmiddlefinger]

Thanks for the help all! BTW-- my name is Steven. :P

Separating the female shouldn't be that hard. There are enough extra tanks.

[keehoe]

Correct me if i am wrong. If i remember correctly, Eggersi a peat diver. Meaning you have to put at least 4 inch thickness of peat in the breeding bowl.

But that still largely depends on your fish. If they happy, they do it anyway they want.

[whuntley]

I'm not aware that any of the old-world killifish need deep peat for diving.

AFAIK, that's a new world phenomenon that applies to only a few genera, mostly of south-eastern SA.

Wright

PS. The pics aren't clear enough to be sure, but that male looks a lot like the Kilimani collection.

[greenmiddlefinger]

I have no idea where the original stock was from, but I know these fish were hatched in captivity from a captive spawning. At the LFs, they only had the fish labelled by scientific name.

[CM Media]

Correct me if i am wrong. If i remember correctly, Eggersi a peat diver. Meaning you have to put at least 4 inch thickness of peat in the breeding bowl.

Hi Kee Hoe,

Nothobranchius generally are not classified as peat divers. They will lay eggs a few mm just above the peat.

All my SAA are 'trained' to lay eggs on very little peat. This means they don't have any chance to dive into the peat. I only provide 10 - 15mm thick of peat for all the species I keep.

Given the restricted condition, they will adjust and adapt to the enviroment.

[TyroneGenade]

The Kilimani, Ruhoi and Rufiji fish all come from the same river system. They are very different to the Bagamoyo fish though from which they can be easily told apart. Likewise the Saardani reds are very different to the Ruhoi and Rufiji populations.

The Ruhoi fish are often also more white than blue making them very attractive.

I don't know what strain of blue that is but it is not Bagamoyo.

Regards

[keehoe]

Mmmm, i remember someone told me that when i was keeping a pair of eggersi red. Anyway, it was laying egg on normal peat and everywhere else in the tank.

Colected some egg for test and almost all are infertile. except one that hatched but couldn't make it to adulthood.

Bringing in some of these N. eggersi "Ruhoi river" egg in next week.

Will post picture once they show colour.