New Kribs!

[Discomafia]

Congrats if you made it this far, and here is a pic of my pleco, just cause eight is a lucky number!

Thanks for looking!

 

[england]

great looking fish

 

[Discomafia]

Thanks for looking.

I just got them on Sunday, and they've coloured up very nicely. Pity my camera can't capture their full colour. They've bred before, and the pair really seems to like the cave in the driftwood, so I hope they'll breed again.

 

[Sheridanp]

The pleco looks like my algae eater, and I have one of the same toys as you! Nicely done.

 

[Discomafia]

The male

Chasing each other

Looking for food?

With the cories

With the cories at the back munching on an algae wafer

Outside the "cave"

My favourite so far...

Shot with BN pleco

Thanks for looking!

 

[lljdma06]

That's going to be a great pair. It's best when the female is smaller than the male, at least that has been my experience with kribs. She's got a great color on her, with her rosy belly.

I miss my kribs!

 

[TigerMan]

wow nice kribs i realy like your set up to!

 

[bennett]

i'd like to see some pics of your complete tank man. your kribs looks ace and i've a feeling i should know what type of pleco that is (not the BN)

what size tank is it etc?

 

[Discomafia]

That's going to be a great pair. It's best when the female is smaller than the male, at least that has been my experience with kribs. She's got a great color on her, with her rosy belly.

I miss my kribs!

Thanks. I got the pair two Sundays ago, and they had bred once already. The female is smaller than the male actually, and I'm hoping to see some fry in the future. And yea, I love her rose belly. Also like his blue pelvic fins, the colour is just so vibrant! These pics can't do the pair justice IMO. What happened to your kribs btw?

wow nice kribs i realy like your set up to!

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it!

i'd like to see some pics of your complete tank man. your kribs looks ace and i've a feeling i should know what type of pleco that is (not the BN)

what size tank is it etc?

Check out my tank "journal" buried in the Planted forum somewhere. More of an evolution thread, then a journal, to be exact... I've only got the 2 BN plecos, and the tank is a 33G US. Here is a pic of it yesterday, still waiting for the background plants and the dwarf sag to fill out to be honest...

Here are two recent pics. Should the driftwood be placed on either side of the tank (2nd pic), or close to each other (1st pic)?

driftwood next to each other

driftwood on either side of tank

 

[lljdma06]

Thanks. I got the pair two Sundays ago, and they had bred once already. The female is smaller than the male actually, and I'm hoping to see some fry in the future. And yea, I love her rose belly. Also like his blue pelvic fins, the colour is just so vibrant! These pics can't do the pair justice IMO. What happened to your kribs btw?

I bred kribensis a few years after I moved to FL in 1992. I bred them for several years and sold them to a LFS for store credit. When I lost the female, I tried to mate the male to a daughter, but it just wasn't the same. He missed his lady and I ended up giving the rest of them away. They were a great pair, a lot like yours in fact. Afterwards, I kept cardinals in a species tank, and then when that was finished, I kept goldfish for awhile, like five years. Then Katrina hit, and I lost those. I was planning to house them in a huge tank when I first joined TFF. Those threads are long buried.

Now, I'm back into tropicals. I've been keeping fish for quite a while. Since I was 12 and I'm 29 now.

Sorry, I took awhile to answer. If you have a question on breeding, let me know.

 

[bennett]

the first one disco.

i really like the "muddy" look of your tank...that's a compliment btw

 

[karen84]

nice fish

 

[Discomafia]

That would have been nice lljdma06, breeding kribs I mean. Did you get a lot of store credit? Sorry for your loss during Katrina, ever tried looking up those old threads? And thanks for the invite to PM you, I have some questions regarding krib husbandery I was hoping to get some answers to.

at the muddy comment, bennett, but if you say it's a compliment, I'll accept it. Thank you! You too karen84, I appreciate it.

 

[lljdma06]

That would have been nice lljdma06, breeding kribs I mean. Did you get a lot of store credit? Sorry for your loss during Katrina, ever tried looking up those old threads? And thanks for the invite to PM you, I have some questions regarding krib husbandery I was hoping to get some answers to.

at the muddy comment, bennett, but if you say it's a compliment, I'll accept it. Thank you! You too karen84, I appreciate it.

Not a lot, just enough to buy extra bbs for the fry, and chemicals for water treatment and such. They were like rabbits, so I was just glad to have a place that would take them. I got lucky too, his supplier would mostly give him females, and I had mostly males from my spawns, so the owner was able to jack up the price because he would sell them as pairs. Water chemistry affects the sex ration. At least this what I have found with experience and the books I've read about kribs. The more alkaline the water, the more males are present, the more acidic, the more females.

Nope, I don't want to look up the old threads, General Tsaio and Ping(my goldfish) were family pets. Like a dog or cat really, and losing them was really tough on my family and I, so I probably won't look up the old threads for a while yet.

Disco has wood, wood releases tannins, contributing to the "muddy" look. And the substrate is dark and pretty cool, I might add. My tanks are "muddy" too.

 

[Wisperian]

OOooohhh the female's belly is so vibrant my mommy krib just dissappeared after her eggs hatched =/ i could never find her. only the dad was left and i thought he ate the babies and like a week later he spat them out x) =/ i misss my kribs