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Nice, very nice!
Hopefully one day I'll win the lotto and set-up my own quaranteen room so that I can bring in any Aphyosemion species I like
Hi all,
My Aphyosemion cameronense K98 "yellow fins" are spawning! Not only that, but I found fry in their tank last night. The temp is 22degC and the water is soft. I wasn't finding any eggs, so last night I caught out 1 pr (I have two) and placed the pr in a small plastic tank with a mop. A few hours later I had 8 eggs (that appear fertile). What was impressive, was that while I never saw the fish in the main tank, in this little tank under a 40 W Lifeglo tube, the male was anything but shy. He courted the female in plain site and didn't hide at all.
My Aph. lamberti are also spawning well among long fibre peat. I've placed the peat into a shallow plastic butter tub and the males actually spar over the peat and the winner hangs out under the peat ball in the tub like a notho. The peat is FULL of eggs! (I have some on Aquabid hint hint...) Its a surpisingly handsome fish. I hope to have some pics of my fish soon... Their tank temp is 23-24degC.
The punctatum are also spawning well at 22degC, but with multiple pairs in the tank, a lot of the eggs get eaten... :-(
I should soon be getting some hertzogi.:-)
I hope this is enough to make you very envious. :P
Nice, very nice!
Hopefully one day I'll win the lotto and set-up my own quaranteen room so that I can bring in any Aphyosemion species I like
My herzogi have arrived! But what a near disaster. They were sent up by overnight post on Thursday but I could only collect on Saturday. When I picked up the box it made a funny jingly noise... The guy sending the fish had included some GLASS petri dishes that had gotten smashed in transit. These had punctured the bags... When I opened the box I found 4 fish in breather bags without any water. Just some residual moisture. The fish looked not very alive but still had colour. I cut them out and of the 4, 3 came right back to life. I now have a happy trio that I hope will soon spawn.
In the mean time I have lamberti, punctatum and cameronense fry coming out of my ears!
tt4n
Nice one Tyrone
Congrats :P
If you hadn't said 22 C, I would have asked you for some eggs, Tyrone. They're lovely Killies. Congrats.
Loh K L
Dear Kwek leongOriginally Posted by timebomb
According to a book I'm reading at the moment it says these Killies will tolerate temps up to 26 (although this may hamper how fertile they are), so perhaps if you put them in the coolest room of your house you might get away with it?
Coolest place in my house would still be about 30 C on most days, Cameron.
It would be difficult to keep them alive, let alone breed them.
Loh K L
I understand, don't you have a spare few million dollars lying around so you can buy a few chillers?
South Africa also has blistering summers and inside temps will also reach well into the 30's. Usually the tanks are about 28 degrees celsius by evening time. Keeping that in mind there are alot of successful Killi Fish enthusiasts in our country. So perhaps the fish just get used to the high temps?
It's still pretty chilly here at the moment so I guess that is why Tyrone's temps are so low, what will he be doing once it warms up? Hopefully he will let us know his secret, or perhaps he just lives in a big fridge
I wishdon't you have a spare few million dollars lying around so you can buy a few chillers?
Loh K L
Dont buy the farm.
that would be a bad thing.
David
Indoor water temps reach about 27degC in summer... which is rather hot by Aphyosemion standards. I generally lower the water level to about 10 cm and feed heavily with cyclops and other foods rich in HUFA (highly unsaturated fatty acids). IMHO, I think a high HUFA diet in combination with oxygen is the trick to battling high temps.
The lamberti should be able to survive the high Singapore temps. Maybe, if my fish are still spawning, I can try send you (KL) some eggs in peat and see what happens.
Come summer, we will find out just how many of the fish survive...
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