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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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But, that's only what I would do - Ian will probably have word of what he would do under the circumstances.
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We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl - year after year.
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Species prefers spawning on plants and most successful method of incubation is water incubation.
Drying eggs in peat is also used but has not shown as high a hatching rate as water incubation.
Wetting peat incubated eggs is done by using slightly acidic freshwater at a temperature several degrees lower than incubation temperature.
Temperature for raising fry is around 25° c.
So Robert
Wet your peat,wait up to 48 hrs and if no fry show on this second wetting, I would search the peat to see if there are any viable eggs left in it.
If there are eggs, redry and rewet in 2 to 3 weeks. or leave the eggs wet carrying out small water changes daily until fry hatch.
If you cant find any I would not try again with this bätch.
I will send you the N guentheri eggs and hopefully you will have success with them.
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Keep us posted.
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Pm me your address Robert.
I have a bag of eggs here screaming to be wet and you will have fry by the weekend.
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- fishmad1234 (Craig Coyle)
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Well hopefully anyway going to be much better prepared for when I hatch my next batch of Killie eggs going to try get a good few live food cultures going and not just depend on the microworms.
I'll have another root around the container tomorrow it's kinda baffling where they could be I have some filter moss in the container I was thinking maybe they Swam into it but cant see any.
Hopefully better news tomorrow.
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There is no hard and fast incubation period for any of the killifish................if talking about siamese fighters or many other species of fish I recon we could estimate the incubation period to within half a day.
But not with killifish of any sort.
If you are using guess work then the initial incubation times I said previously are what you would aim for.
But never put all your eggs in one basket so to speak.................stagger the incubation time around the rough times as I mentioned previously if you are going by guess-work.
Now, one way to minimise guess work is to use a microscope to visualise the state of development of the eggs.
However, I tend to only use that method for really tricky to hatch fish that I would be very determined to breed as it does take the fun out of breeding (and it should be about fun).
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Hicker12 wrote: I have 25 fundulopanchax sjoestedti niger delta eggs to hatch at the weekend, its been a while since i had any killis so really looking forward to it. Will keep you's updated on how i get on.
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A species well worth keeping.

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