Killifish - what a cool fish!!

[GrubbyGirl]

A couple of months ago I bought a pair of Fundulopanchax gardneri......I only have the male left, and don't ask me what happened to the female I feel very guilty!

What great fish they are I absolutely love them. I have never seen a fish eat so much, he just eats and eats and you can physically watch him expand at meal times. I did specifically pic this guy as he was chowing down on blood worms in the shop. Are they all such pigs?

Anyway I was wondering if anyone has any experience with them or breeds them, or has any for sale? I see that it's fairly easy to buy killifish eggs on Ebay but was wondering how easy it really was to hatch them and raise them? I also undersdtand that some of them only live a year, does anyone know which these are?

Any information gratefully received. :thumbup:

 

[FF MkII]

They are beautiful and very interesting fish. I think alot of the ones that only live for a year do so only in the wild as they live in puddles in the wet season, spawn then the puddles dry out leaving the adults to perish ( the eggs and kept safe in mud and hatch the next year)

So in captivity they could live longer......i might be wrong about that though.

 

[GrubbyGirl]

I've been doing some research and it appears you are right, in an aquarium they do live longer

 

[thegeeman]

Really nice fish but love to jump as I found out. Lots of people breed them in fish clubs so google for one in your area. I kept mine in 12" cubes with a tiny bubble filter. I fed mine absolutley anything and the would stuff there faces.

Cheers

thegeeman

 

[GrubbyGirl]

I found out with the female that they were jumpers when I was revamping the tank.......I found her on the floor well dead, I hadn't noticed her jump out. I felt really bad about that because in fact she was a real character. I didn't know there was such a thing as fish clubs!

 

[FF MkII]

One of my local places have a few in stock, very pretty.

For the price of the eggs its worth a chance to get them delivered

 

[thegeeman]

I didn't know there was such a thing as fish clubs!

Really??. There are some serious fish perverts out there GG. Mostly liverbearers and the like. The further north you go the more geeky they become:lol: but well worth checking one out if you have one near you. I have just picked up 50 blue moscow show guppy fry. I felt a little bit guilty as they are going to be meeting Peter and Petra tomorrow

Cheers

thegeeman

 

[GrubbyGirl]

Hmmmm........there do seem to be some fairly close, I must investigate. I have to agree all the good stuff tends to be ooop narth, we southerns are deprived!

 

[FF MkII]

You get mega bargains at auctions (usually run by fish shops)