How I Did It....

[Ludwig Venter]

I ordered my Killi eggs from Thailand on aquabid and they arrived 11 days later. packaged as follows:

Removing the envelope and bubble wrapping brought me to these 2 contaners wrapped in aluminium foil and newspaper.

Removing the foil and newspaper, You get a sealed packet with peat & eggs, PLUS a plastic bag of Artemia (brine shrimp eggs) and salt to hatch them in

Removing the sealed packets, brings you to a plastic container with the peat and eggs in them.

I chose these plastic containers (I think my wife bought some easter buns in them or something to that effect).. as receptical and filled them with water from the tank I intend to (eventually) move the fry into. (they're about 3" deep)

I removed the lids from the egg & peat containers and submerged them into the water.

After a minute, I rinsed the peat & Egg containers in the water and then stirred the water to spread the peat.

Brine shrimp eggs was set up for hatching about 12 hours prior to submerging the eggs.

A bare, Cycled tank was ready for the fry, which hatched about five minutes after placing the peat in water and moved to the tank about 24 hours after hatching.

The fry have been moved around a number of times to seperate the bigger ones from the smaller ones and have mostly been fed on live brine shrimp.... here they are as photographed today.

 

[bae1994]

cool ludwig well done

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Wow, awsome little fish!

 

[VaegaVic]

Stunning!
If I had another tank, I'd love to give these a try!

 

[Ludwig Venter]

Stunning!
If I had another tank, I'd love to give these a try!

I would actually recommend that anyone who wants to gain experience in rearing tiny (egg layers) fry, should get themselves a batch of these as (to me) they are hardy (esp when moved to a new receptical) and follows the norm of any fry I have reared (especially resembling a pattern of rearing Betta fry)... and you are rewarded with (probably) the most beautiful freshwater fish around.... I just wish I could produce a perfect photo of what I see... They always come out blurred or less colourful than in real life.

 

[fshinggrl]

Awesome!

 

[Curiosity101]

What procession of tanks have you used during rearing (size wise + number)?

 

[PDSimon]

I think this is amazing... they look awesome too. What sort of killis are they? Excuse my newbieness

 

[Ludwig Venter]

What procession of tanks have you used during rearing (size wise + number)?

To date, I've used 3 tanks.... (as follows)

1. All the fry was put into one tank and started to grow together.....
2. After (about)2/3 weeks.... a number of the bigger fry was moved over to a fresh tank (to prevent them from eating the smaller ones.....
3. Then again after 2/3 weeks..... the biggest fish in the new tank was move over to the 3rd tank for the same reason.....(and then... some of the bigger ones in the original tank was moved to the 2nd tank.

All the fish from the original tank are now in the 2nd tank, and from time to time the bigger ones are moved to join the big ones in the 3rd tank. (so, the original tank is empty again.... to house the next batch of eggs. etc. etc. etc.

 

[Curiosity101]

What size was each tank though? I'm trying to get my head around what sort of scale I'd be looking at to do something like this. I'm thinking it'd be a bit too big but thought it was worth asking. Particularly for the smaller killies that max out at 2" and are saleable/re-homable at 1".

I was always the kid who loved recieving the 'grow your own' kits and this seems like the grown up version of those

I was thinking that I could always keep them in a large plastic heated and filtered tub of their own if neccesary so that's no worry. Then just keep the smallest ones in a tank on the desk (so I can keep a closer eye on them). Just wanted to know if it was still do-able, or if we're talking hundreds of litres as opposed to say 'a hundred' litres.

 

[kizno1]

What size was each tank though? I'm trying to get my head around what sort of scale I'd be looking at to do something like this. I'm thinking it'd be a bit too big but thought it was worth asking. Particularly for the smaller killies that max out at 2" and are saleable/re-homable at 1".

I was always the kid who loved recieving the 'grow your own' kits and this seems like the grown up version of those

I was thinking that I could always keep them in a large plastic heated and filtered tub of their own if neccesary so that's no worry. Then just keep the smallest ones in a tank on the desk (so I can keep a closer eye on them). Just wanted to know if it was still do-able, or if we're talking hundreds of litres as opposed to say 'a hundred' litres.

To try it you could always go for a smaller amount of eggs. Theres a few different types on ebay that are only 50 eggs. Ive been thinking about trying it too looks like a good thing to try.

 

[wagtail]

maybe I missed it but did you say what species they were?