thefirethief
Fish Crazy
Evening ladies and Gents, I've done a fair bit of reading but I'm just after a few pointers as a killifish spawning newbie. I keep 4 males and 6 females in a 25L tank with plenty of frogbit and java fern.
First off, just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some colour photos of the various strains of P. Annulatus. I know a webpage exists which would clear this up; I was looking at it last week. How I wish I'd bookmarked. This is out of curiosity than any real need.
I'm taking a guess that the fish I have will be a few generations down from wild caughts so I haven't bothered lowering the pH as my water sits around 6.8/7. Would it be a good idea to start peat filtration anyway, try get the pH a bit lower or is pH not an issue (I've still to measure GH)? I do a 50% water change every 4 or 5 days and do a 'rainfall' simulation around once a week.
As for diet, I offer 3-4 small feedings a day alfternating between sera microgran granules; freeze dried blood worm; frozen copepods; microworms. I don't know much about nutritional values of each food so I'm really trying to cover all bases here. Does this sound adequate to get them into breeding condition?
Sound like I'm on the right track? Any suggestions welcome!
Mark
First off, just wondering if anyone can point me in the direction of some colour photos of the various strains of P. Annulatus. I know a webpage exists which would clear this up; I was looking at it last week. How I wish I'd bookmarked. This is out of curiosity than any real need.
I'm taking a guess that the fish I have will be a few generations down from wild caughts so I haven't bothered lowering the pH as my water sits around 6.8/7. Would it be a good idea to start peat filtration anyway, try get the pH a bit lower or is pH not an issue (I've still to measure GH)? I do a 50% water change every 4 or 5 days and do a 'rainfall' simulation around once a week.
As for diet, I offer 3-4 small feedings a day alfternating between sera microgran granules; freeze dried blood worm; frozen copepods; microworms. I don't know much about nutritional values of each food so I'm really trying to cover all bases here. Does this sound adequate to get them into breeding condition?
Sound like I'm on the right track? Any suggestions welcome!
Mark