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[Leo]

Hello to everybody!
And a special hello to all the Killie-keepers in here!

I joined this forum yesterday - there aren't too much places in the
net, where one can talk about killifish.

My name is Leo and I am from Austria - I started out with keeping tropical fish at the age of 12, since Sept. 2004 the killifish-virus took over, at the moment I am keeping about ten different species.
Now I am a Member in the DKG for one year.

The headquarter of this forum is Singapure - right?
There are seven hours difference in time! What an adventure!

Greetings!

Leo

[RonWill]

Welcome to the forum, Leo. We're a mixed bunch here but I think you're the first member from Austria (home of the famed AKG monitor headphones and Vienna Boys' Choir!!).

The headquarter of this forum is Singapure - right?

Hmm... never thought of Singapore being the HQ but I guess you can call it that It would be interesting to hear how you found us though.

It's kinda quiet here now but I hope you'll enjoy your visits. Share with us how you got started and your journey with the species you're keeping now.

Killie-virus?? Nah, the doctor says it's only a wet itch!

[Leo]

Hello Ron!

o-o - sorry for spelling your Homeland that bad .

There is an austrian forum, in german language - one thread was running this days about moss. In this thread one of the users set a link to this HP.
That's how I found this site :-).

How I got started? There were some tanks around, I did set up them at first to hatch and rise some Corys - but the sucess was not that big. I was wondering what kind of fish I could keep - I heard, that one can keeop Killis in small tanks - so I just decided to give them a try.

My frist species was E. dageti monraviae *Harbel* - and A. lineatus where the second ones.
On my first real big meeting at the DKG I came home with beautiful F. filamentosus *Ijebu Ode* as fish an with the first bag of eggs_in_peat - N. korthausae *Kwachepa*.

After that the other species dropped in - just have a look at this page:
http://www.killifische.at - there is my fishlist inside and I try my best to keep it up to date.

The last species I rised where Austrolebias affinis - the youngsters are getting their colours at the moment and they are just great, very easy, very hungry - much fun or me.
Which R. pyropunctata I had bad luck: at the beginning the temperature was too low :-( - so I could rise only one pair of fish.
Next time there will be a heater in the tank from the beginning and I was told, that I'll soon have eggs - lots of eggs from my pair.:-)

That's the story in short words.

Greetings!

Leo

[mk_ultra]

Welcome aboard, Leo.

The Austrolebias killies are vey well suited to cooler climates. they seem to fair nicely at room temp and cooler weather even here in New Jersey.

Good Luck!

[RonWill]

Did someone mentioned moss?? I've large clumps of them but not sure what these are! For me, good mosses have lots of eggs in them and your dageti will love them.

The filamentosus, however, are peat spawners with very small eggs. Their fry are also very tiny, only slightly larger than a week-old annulatus fry. IIRC, FIL need 8 weeks incubation in ambient temperature around 28°C, generally longer in cooler climates.

BTW, Leo, isn't the filamentosus classified under Paludopanchax instead of Fundulopanchax?

[Don't worry about the double posting. It happens when the system hits a 'no specific mode' glitch... not that I know what that means! ]

[whuntley]

BTW, Leo, isn't the filamentosus classified under Paludopanchax instead of Fundulopanchax?

Paludopanchax is a sub-genus of Fundulopanchax, and isn't used very much, except to separate groups for show classification, etc. The correct full designation should be Fundulopanchax (Paludopanchax) filamentosus.

HTH

Wright

[RonWill]

Wright,
Thanks for clearing that up. I was always a little confused with the sub-genus part of the designation.

Leo,
There you go. Now you know for sure and you're off to a great start! Continue to let us know how you're getting along, ya?