Can I Put Anything With Killis

[nudzy]

Hi I have a trio of fundi gardneri, (I think thats it??)

At the moment they are in a 15 x 18 inch tank, and would like to use my spare 24 x 12 tank as it has a better filtration system. They are in the tank on their own and just wondered if there was anything I could put in the tank with them, that they would all live peacefully together, maybe corys or something.

As a two foot by one foot tank is big for just three little fish.

thanks a lot and kind regards, dee.

 

[helterskelter]

Cory's will be fine.

I would not recoment to much though are they can get nippy at times

 

[nudzy]

Thanks for your quick reply, anything else or is it a big no no.

The type of corys I was thinking was 6 peppered or albino, Its a 70 litre tank planted with lots of bogwood.

 

[Colin_T]

leave them in the small tank for a few weeks and then move them into the bigger tank. Chances are you will get some babies in the smaller tank soon after the adults are moved. Then you can keep the adults with small barbs like cherry barbs or various corydoras (as already mentioned above). Even a p of dwarf cichlids would probably be ok with them, perhaps look at Apistogramma cacatuoides.

 

[BigC]

I would be inclined to leave things as they are, as Helter states Cory's would be fine but Fp. gardneri can be a bit boisterous when fully mature.
Keeping them in their own species tank gives you the oportunity to finely tune the tank to their needs as regards to water parameters and feeding regimes.
They dont require heavy flow or filtration, a simple air driven sponge filter set to a minium will suffice. Main concerns would be to keep the tank clean, perform regular waterchanges and always remember that tight fitting lid or coverglass, as with many killifish sp. these are excellent jumpers.
Regards
BigC

 

[nudzy]

Hi thanks for all answers I think I will just leave them be, as when I was going to move them draining the tank down, saw what i thought was a baby shrimp, caught it, put it with the other shrimp, and as I went for the other one relised it wasnt a shrimp it was a tiny (really really tiny) baby fish, so I have now got two baby killis in the trap!!

The must be happy if they are breeding, but I saw no eggs and no courting behaviour, so they must be livebearers and they must be happy where they are.

 

[BigC]

LOL Deffo not livebearing fish....