New Babies!!!

[MuddyWaters]

I found 2 different types of babies in my 75 gallon tank one day apart!

First I found the babie Mollies

Then I found the baby Kribensis!

 

[gwand]

I found 2 different types of babies in my 75 gallon tank one day apart!

First I found the babie Mollies

Then I found the baby Kribensis!

Cool! What kind of Kribensis?

 

[MuddyWaters]

Cool! What kind of Kribensis?

hmmm I'm not sure. I got them at the club auction. I don't think they had the scientific name on them. It's the pretty kind

 

[gwand]

hmmm I'm not sure. I got them at the club auction. I don't think they had the scientific name on them. It's the pretty kind

Their stunning. You must find out the genus and species. Gary@E will surely know. I don’t recognize them.

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

Congrats on the new babies! Exciting times, especially when they breed on their own in a community tank unexpectedly

 

[AdoraBelle Dearheart]

I found 2 different types of babies in my 75 gallon tank one day apart!

First I found the babie Mollies

Then I found the baby Kribensis!

Have to add - the videos, mainly your narration, are absolutely precious and heart-warming, and made my day!

I have a soft spot for mollies, especially black mollies, and would love to see the adults, if you can and are willing to share! But the excitement and happiness in your voice over finding the baby mollies was so lovely!

Then with the kribs - wow, the colours on those parents! I've never seen such pretty kribs! Nor watched them with fry, so that video was lovely too. Heart melting when you showed them to your family too and explained about the protective parents, and the gasp after you said "look there" as they realised, followed by *gasp* "they're babies!" as they saw them move! Such a sweet and wonderful family moment captured on video, and one that made my day! Hope they do well, and you continue to update!

 

[gwand]

hmmm I'm not sure. I got them at the club auction. I don't think they had the scientific name on them. It's the pretty kind

If the fry survive to juveniles I would love to buy a pair from you.

 

[Mr Limpet]

Those are common kribs, Pelvicachromis pulcher. The parents are escorting their babies around the tank in search of food. I start my krib fry on microworms, switching to BBS a week later.

 

[gwand]

Those are common kribs, Pelvicachromis pulcher. The parents are escorting their babies around the tank in search of food. I start my krib fry on microworms, switching to BBS a week later.

I have not seen p. pulcher so colorful. In the video the male looks yellow and black. Do you culture your own microworms and BBS or buy them?

 

[Back in the fold]

Isn’t it great ! I love finding new little fish . To me , baby black mollies are the nicest of all baby fish . I love them . Those are really nice Kribensis too . They have good color .

 

[Mr Limpet]

I have not seen p. pulcher so colorful. In the video the male looks yellow and black. Do you culture your own microworms and BBS or buy them?

P. pulcher is a very variable species. Some males have spots on their tails, some don’t. There’s also a super red morph.

I’ve had microworm cultures going for over ten years, and I hatch out BBS whenever I need them, which is always, since I always have some sort of fry growing out.

 

[MuddyWaters]

I feed all the fish in that tank a high variety of food:
- flake food (45% + protein)
- pellet food (45% + protein)
- baby brine shrimp (I hatch them and freeze them)
- blood worms (frozen)
- tubifex worms (freeze dried)
- home-made color enhancing food (see the recipe here)
- beef heart (frozen)
- daphnia (frozen)
- live flightless fruit flies (got these for the hatchet fish initially, but most of the others go nuts for them too)
- fresh zuchinni
- algae wafers

I like to mess around with different foods. I'd like to think that contributes to their robust coloring.

 

[GaryE]

Judging from how the angel and krib are interacting, someone wants krib fry as a food supplement...

 

[anewbie]

I will note that with my kribs i NEVER had to feed the frys; the parents always found something they would eat. It helps that the frys will eat plant matter and kribs are natively heavy plant matter eaters (they LOVE their salad )
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This is unlike my sa dwarf cichild where it is either hatch live food or forget about the frys making it more than a week.
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Note that blood worms is not a great food and particularly bad for dwarf cichild. Feeding it to larger fishes like angels once a month or so isn't bad but it really isn't great stuff on a regular basis. Too fatty.
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beef-heart is just bad and worse it pollutes the tank.

 

[MuddyWaters]

I will note that with my kribs i NEVER had to feed the frys; the parents always found something they would eat. It helps that the frys will eat plant matter and kribs are natively heavy plant matter eaters (they LOVE their salad )
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This is unlike my sa dwarf cichild where it is either hatch live food or forget about the frys making it more than a week.
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Note that blood worms is not a great food and particularly bad for dwarf cichild. Feeding it to larger fishes like angels once a month or so isn't bad but it really isn't great stuff on a regular basis. Too fatty.

That's good- I was wondering about it, but it did look like the fry were eating either the moss or something on the moss, so I was hoping they'd be ok.