Krib Breeding?

[JohnRossDele]

Hi,
will this work?
i've bought a proven pair of kribs, im puttin them in a:

100 Litre tank (already ordered)
Black Fine Gravel
Half buried pots (Medium size eg 3-4 inch circumference)
Coconut Caves (DIY)
X1 Driftwood
Plants

Heat:26*C

Tank info:
tank all to them selves!

lighting:
an over tank light.

is this not a bad idea? any changes i need to the list or any things that i need to know before breeding them (im not saying i dont know anything about breeding them already!! )

 

[indigoj]

Regular water changes, some floating cover may help them feel more secure too. I'd ask whoever you are getting them off for a pic of the tank they have been in.

 

[tropic_john]

Also, perhaps an airstone crating bubbles from the center of the plant roots

 

[nmonks]

Breeding kribs is pretty easy, in part because the parents do a good job of keeping the eggs clean and removing fungus. The fry are nice and big, and feeding them prepared foods rather than tiny live foods works very well.

Your only hurdle is the pH: the common mistake people make is to not adjust the hardness and pH of the water. If the pH is not 7.0, you'll get more of one sex than the other. This makes selling your fry more difficult, and in terms of doing a good job, it's a "fail". So be sure and adjust the hardness (carbonate hardness, specifically) to a middling value like 4 degrees KH and then buffer the pH as required.

Cheers, Neale

 

[indigoj]

What filtration are you planning?

Once you have eggs also buy some stockings/tights to put over the intake to stop fry getting sucked in.

Just remember to give them time, let them settle and leave them too it.

Feed a well balanced diet that includes veg - try spirulina flake or pellets - and meaty food - get a decent quality cichlid pellet with a frozen or live bloodworm treat a couple of times a week. Check what they have been used to eating too as matching the diet will help them settle in.

 

[JohnRossDele]

Also, perhaps an airstone crating bubbles from the center of the plant roots

yeah im getting one or two; its that i forgot to mention that

 

[JohnRossDele]

What filtration are you planning?

Once you have eggs also buy some stockings/tights to put over the intake to stop fry getting sucked in.

Just remember to give them time, let them settle and leave them too it.

Feed a well balanced diet that includes veg - try spirulina flake or pellets - and meaty food - get a decent quality cichlid pellet with a frozen or live bloodworm treat a couple of times a week. Check what they have been used to eating too as matching the diet will help them settle in.

i ordered the tank and stand (not a huge brand as u told me to not get in a past topic, it was cheaper) the thing is that i have to get my own equipment, which is kinda good since i get to choose my own filter (fry safe, of coarse) and my own heater ect...

so what filter do u recommend, i'd like a filter that can do a great job but not a beast with a huge intake

 

[JohnRossDele]

so,
100 Litre tank (already ordered)
floating plants
Black Fine Gravel
Half buried pots (Medium size eg 3-4 inch circumference)
Coconut Caves (DIY)
X1 Driftwood
Plants
airstone
Fry Safe Filter

Foods:
(Well Balanced Diet)
Spirulina flake
Pellets
Meaty Foods
Cichlid Pellets
BloodWorms
Prepared foods for fry
(Check what they're like to eat)

Heat:26*C

Tank info:
tank all to them selves!

lighting:
an over tank light

Chemistry:
Regular water changes
PH:7.0
KH:4

so im taking it that this will work, although i dont want to frankinstein the ph and kh, any more changes or that'll be fine?

Thanks all of ya's

 

[hensonc4098]

lol yours will be spoiled in comparison to mine!
All sounds good to me though - my fry fed on liquifry for a couple of weeks but weren't too keen on it - one got hold of a piece of flake intended for the parents and that was that - they didn't touch liquifry again!

 

[indigoj]

I used to run a fluval 3 internal in my 100l then upgraded to an aqua-el internal with a bigger turnover. Or you could go for an external but this may be too much for the fry. With just 2 fish in then as long as it is a decent filter made to cope with 100-200l it will be fine.

 

[JohnRossDele]

der gonna be spoilt!!

 

[Reesy1989]

Hi,

When I was breeding my Kribs I did some research online and found that they advised to use sand rather than gravel, reason being that when the fry are freshly hatched it could cause some of then to fall between the gaps in the gravel and perrish.

Not sure how true that is, I suppose on how fine the gravel was, mine wasn't fine at all so it been changed and I have bred them extremely easy and have kept them all alive for 5 weeks now

Reesy

 

[skippy_49nz]

If you want to breed them... get some fish, put them in water... they do the rest. It really is that easy. You don't need anything fancy. They will find a hollow in a log or a cave to spawn in. They seem to like smaller gravel/sand that they can excavate. They will do just fine on flake food or whatever you feed now. They aren't difficult to breed in the least.

 

[JohnRossDele]

Hi,

When I was breeding my Kribs I did some research online and found that they advised to use sand rather than gravel, reason being that when the fry are freshly hatched it could cause some of then to fall between the gaps in the gravel and perrish.

Not sure how true that is, I suppose on how fine the gravel was, mine wasn't fine at all so it been changed and I have bred them extremely easy and have kept them all alive for 5 weeks now

Reesy

i dont really have big grains of gravel; just very fine, 1 grain of my black gravel would only be 3 times bigger than a grain of sand