killi fish eggs

This is getting complicated , so how long do i leave the eggs or should i say the peat wetted for

Just researched this species and Ian's advice is what I found.
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.

Ok thanks for your help ,will have a go tonight

well just wet the eggs at 21.21hrs so fingers crossed

the wife thinks I have lost it completely staring into a container with peat moss in it . the more you stare into it you think you see movement but no such luck yet . there has to be something seriously wrong with the mental state of us fish keepers

With a bit of luck Robert you will get a few fry this time around.
Keep us posted.

Two hours and 12 minutes of staring into a container of peat moss , not a sign of movement , going to bed now so will see in the morning . Might be an idea to buy a bag of peat moss in aldi bag it up into countless tiny bags and sell them for a tenner , and as Dell boy said i could be a million air this time next year

well just checked the eggs no sign of movement but will give it another 24 hrs

Was hoping to read you had a tub of fry this morning Robert.
Pm me your address Robert.
I have a bag of eggs here screaming to be wet and you will have fry by the weekend.

So due to work commitments and the wife being on crutches and microworm cultures crashing left right and centre I haven't been giving the Killie fry the attention they needed looking through the container tonight and can only see 2 fry I don't know were the rest of them could be I have moss and decaying capatta leaves in the container had a root through them but still no were to be seen maybe they could be just hiding very well

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.


Regards
Craig

Hi Craig . Sorry to here about the wife , you need to watch those crutches as one around the head could be painful , anyway onto fishy things i have capatta leaves for my shrimp tank are they good for the killi fry , some in the shrimp tank would be fairly rotted . Robert

They are purely there for the micro organisms for the fry to feed on not for there netruient that lower s ph

@Robert............ the 6 month incubation would be some species of annual that demand an extended incubation period out of water: your species is NOT one of them.

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).

ian

Sean is very kindly posting me up some eggs which i am hoping to have in the morning , he thinks there is a very good chance of some hatching , so providing they arrive i will wet them tomorrow evening , getting hooked on these fish . The more i research them the more fasintating they become , truely beautiful fish

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.

Stephen.

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.

Stephen.

A species well worth keeping.

Update, 0 hatch rate! Eggs looked white, maybe a fungus or dried out? Have ordered more eggs from a different seller.

Stephen.