December Cichlid Of The Month: Kribensis

[dthoffsett]

Kribensis

Arguably the most popular riverine species and a great introduction to the world of cichlids.

Please share your pictures and experiences with any of the Pelvicachromis species.​

 

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Now surely with all the krib keepers on here, one of you would like to share information about them.

 

[kribensis12]

I just noticed your thread! What kind of information are you looking for exactly?

 

[dthoffsett]

I just noticed your thread! What kind of information are you looking for exactly?

Same thing as for the labs, any pics you want to share as well as advice and your experiences keeping kribs.

 

[kribensis12]

I will look for pictures later. The only advice I have is to have plenty of caves, feed well, and keep up on the water changes and they will breed like no tomorrow!

 

[fatheadminnow]

My Kribensis breeding pair! She just laid another batch of eggs! WOOT WOOT!

Her breeding cave:

Female close up:

Male close up:

Her last batch:

Their tank:

-FHM

 

[JohnRossDele]

hi dtoffsett! im glad that kribensis were picked for the cichlid of the month because their my fav!

Tank: at least 2 ft, 60 litres

Aquascape type: caves, lots of plants including floating plants (live or artifical) sand or small grained gravel, driftwood, coconut caves, a few rocks.

Tank stats: clean water, PH: around 7,ammonia: 0ppm, Nitrite: 0ppm preferrably fish-less cycling

equipment: Fluval U2 filter is what is use (put it on small current, planted tank flow setting) it seems to be the best filter for egg laying fish species as the tiny fry do not get sucked into them and it still cleans out the tank perfectly, airstone or air curtain, algae scraper, thermo strip, lighting preferably dimmed, heater.

fry care: if you decide to breed kribs make sure you feed the fry on baby brine shrimp and ween them onto crused flakes, remove fry from the tank and into a thenfry raising tank in about a month as the female will start to egg up again

word of mouth: you can't beat a beautiful pair of kribs, they're parentle care is fantastic and it is very relaxing and interesting to watch the pair shoot around the tank digging, flerting and looking after fry

 

[TetraUk]

When I saw the title "December Cichlid Of The Month" I thought it was another competition

Had been a while since I had kept Kribs, due to moving over to Malawi's for a while.. but actually purchased a pair on Wednesday for the planted set-up Always been one of my favourite species aswell. Love the picture of fatheadminnow's Kribs!

 

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