Golden Panchax Eggs Found!

[08-johns-c]

BigC, my Panchax as I told you, my panchax had displayed unusuall behaviour and have been repeating it lately. On Thursday 7th December I noticed that my panchax was starting his behaviour again and that is when I found 4 eggs on my Java Fern. I read on other sites on how to breed Golden Panchax, as someone showed me, the eggs take up to 14 days to hatch. Is that true? Also, as I was removing the top of the Java Fern 2 eggs fell. 1 was eaten but I am not sure whether the other egg made it to the gravel and escaped being eaten.Anyway, I managed to save 2 eggs and I have put them in a small floating breeder box that is roughly 18cm hiegh, 10cm wide and 18cm long. Is that to small?

 

[BigC]

The incubation time you've been given is correct 11-14 days there or there abouts. Make up a couple of floating mops
http/www.aquarticles.com/articles/breedi...awning_Mop.html
The fish will use these to spawn in and the eggs can be collected more easily. (use a dark yarn, I use green. as the eggs although quite large will be easier to see) On a daily basis lift the mop from the tank and give it a good squeeze (most killifish eggs are robust and can take a bit of rough handling) Lay the mop out and search each strand for eggs. Remove the eggs with your finger tips and place in a well washed (no detergents) margarine tub with about 50mm water depth from the parent tank. The reason for the shallow tub is that the fry need to inflate their swim bladders on hatching and need to make it to the surface to do this otherwise they wil become what is commonly termed as a "Bellyslider" and not grow into viable fish. float the tub in the parent tank and await the new arrivals. Eggs that turn white are fungussed and should be discarded immediately useing a pipette. Some enthusiasts use an anti fungal agent in their egg containers. I personally try to refrain from this practice if possible. The fry are large and present no problems when rearing. On hatching transfer them to you breeding tank you have mentioned using a meat/turkey baster and start feeding. Start them off on newly hatched brineshrimp and microworm then onto crushed flake. Only other thing is that there may be a little bit of sibling rivalry between the fry as they grow and smaller ones may get bullied so on that note try to grade your fish and raise batches according to size.
I hope this answered all your questions
Regards
BigC

 

[08-johns-c]

BigC, 1 Killie fish egg that is in the floating box, seems to have a black dot at the centre of it. It also was white but is clearing up. Does this mean that it is fertalized? The 2nd egg seems to be clearing a bit and has a reddish area close to the centre. Is that one also fertalized? Please, if you can, can you answer my question. Plus, I am not allowed to make any more mops.My parens think it is repulsive. Also, I recently tryed to clean my floating box and I needed to remove the eggs to do so. As I was doing that, 1 egg fell of the leaf it was on and now I can't find it (for all I know it could be in the belly of a fish), and so that leaves me with 1 egg that is white but seems to have an embreo at the centre of the egg. The egg is also clearing up. I have also released my pair of Panchax into the tank (because they didn't breed in the box I put them in), so that they can breed again on the Java Fern leaves.

 

[08-johns-c]

BigC, I am sorry you have gone to all that trouble with researching on information to take care of Killie eggs. About 1 hour after I lost 1 egg, I had the 2nd egg sitting in the breeder net, and 5 minutes later it had disapeared. I am thinking it was one of the 2 Angel fish that sucked it through the net. I am trying to get some more eggs out of my pair of Golden Wonders with my male getting back into his breeding behaviour. I thank you for the information though. I can now be prepared for the future if I ever fined any more Killie eggs in my tank.