Tiny Kribensis

[Squirrelbuddies]

Last spring I found a batch of krib eggs in the one of the flower pot caves. When I looked again a few days later they appeared to be gone. So, (in total ignorance) I lifted the flower pot to clean the tank and a LOT of little squiggly kribs came pouring out of the pot into the water bucket

I managed to scoop as many as I could back into the tank and like a good mom and dad, the parent kribs picked them up in their mouths and put them back into the flower pot.

Well, many survived (although they later ended up missing.....congo tetra snacks??) and in the end I successfully raised four fry.

Almost a year later, one of them is still so tiny. She's a little female about the size of a white cloud mountain minnow -- but much deeper bodied. She has the coloring of a fully developed female -- absolutely gorgeous with her purple belly and dots on her fins - but she's only about an inch long. I wonder if she'll grow any more or just stay miniature....

 

[The-Wolf]

proberbly a runt, that will never reach full adult size.
in the wild it wouldn't have lived this long (predators etc)

I'd love to see a pic of it.

 

[millym]

hi,
id love to see a pic too. although not a cichlid we have a survivor from our 1st ever baby black mollies - shes now a year old and only about an inch long & only about 1/3 rd the size of a normal black mollie. but we love her & shes really cute!!!

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

Will post a pic this weekend!

 

[Squirrelbuddies]

Hmmm....not the easiest fish to photograph - she just wouldn't cooperate last night!! Her colors actually are more brilliant than the picture shows. Nearly a year old and only 1 inch long!

(the haziness on the left is the silicon glue in the corner of the tank, plus the tank was cloudy from rearranging plants...)

 

[The-Wolf]

she looks great, thanks for the pics

 

[wendywc]

So cute! And your plants look very healthy too.