I am trading these killie eggs for a pair of my bettas from the Houdini spawn! They came today!





The last two pics were of the whole shipment.... the top two are the remaining eggs that weren't fungused... and the fry, hoping that it is not dead.
There was one fry in there, that had hatched, but I think it passed away during shipping. Lots of the eggs were dead too... but whatever.

:WOW: What kind of killies?

gardneri N'Sukka

Woah...cool! Such a nice shade of blue, too. :)

LOL Yeah, but that is from the meth blue they were sent to me in. ^_^

Gardneri N'Sukka are some of my favorite killies! :P Lucky! :lolo:

Well, hopefully, I will be sending you eggs soon! :)

Are you planning on breeding?

Not planning on it, but from what I have read and been told, N'Sukka are prolific breeders.... even when you don't want them to be. Maybe Killie fry would be good betta treats... I don't know.

If they do breed then I might be interested in some eggs. ^_^

Sure. :)
Hopefully I actually find the eggs, and fry don't just pop up.

Only about 5 of them hatched... they are now eating bbs and aren't growing very fast.... they are SO hard to find!
Hopefully I will get a trio out of them. :)

OMG I can't beleive you love Killis too! Small world! At my fish club meeting there were a crapload of killis. I had to keep myself from getting into a bidding war. I'm going to drive to (crap forgot her name but she is well known from the AKA) and see all her fish and pick the ones I want from here. She brought a beautiful pair of A. australe golds that everyone was dying over.

This is actually my first experience with killis. I traded a pair of my bettas for some eggs... I just wish most of them would have hatched... now I am hoping the few that DID hatch will live to adulthood killie prettiness. lol

Cool. I've never done the killis. Congrats!

Uh... I just updated today. lol
But I will continue to update.

LOL Well, they are too small to be photographed with my STUPID old camera(new one is broken)... so it will be a LONG while before pictures. lol

:unsure: :(

So, what is the update?
How are they doing?

Well, the ones that hatched are still alive. The other eggs didn't hatch, so I have about 5-6 if I remember right.
It is a PAIN to keep a BBS hatchery just for that many fry...

Well.. You can always breed a pair of your bettas again, lol.

LOL Yeah..... no. lol

I just wish they would grow faster, but that is probably because they are still in only a few inches of water and I have been so FLIPPIN' busy, I keep forgetting to start a drip into it.

Well START one already.

LOL Yeah....I will get on that.

Did you?

i so love those fish i been looking at that add on e-bay with the instant ones for awile now lol B)

Yes, I did. :)

Whooo hooo....
Sending baby killie growing mojo your way!!!

Thanks!!! I am making some of that here myself.

I kind of want to get some killifish eggs too, to hatch. :) I am going to set up a nano tank, and I was thinking a few juvie killifish in there would be nice.

Specifically, I want to get this "kit" and try my hand at hatching them. Was trying to decide between red or blue, but I decided the red would look nice with CRS (hope they stay small and don't EAT the CRS :blink:; maybe I shouldn't risk?). I don't know, maybe this is a "project" I should leave for later. But they're so interesting!



Is it hard to raise them once they hatch? How long does it take them to get to grindal worm stage? Is it a lot like betta fry raising? Maybe I'll get some and hatch them when I get some betta fry too. :lolo:


Edit: Haha, guess Killies will be a project for another day. Manuran just informed me that killies and CRS probably will not mix well! :blink: :blink: :blink: Nup, not getting killies for now then!

OMG that blue killie is GORGEOUS!!!! *drops dead*

And here I was drooling over the red one, lol.

LOL
Haeun, do you know the name of the blue killie?

Click the picture Mumu.

Nothobranchius Fuscotiniatus Kitonga north TAN97/9

those are so cool . Thanks for posting a pic Haeun. I was clueless to what killis fish were. They are gorgous. Are they similar to bettas?

Umm... they aren't really similar to bettas. They aren't labyrinth fish, don't require tropical temperatures(room temp. is fine), and they have different looking finnage...

thanks everyone. I had never seen one before. They are really pretty. So you can keep them at room temperature. Do they require and airstone?

I think you'd need a little more complex setup for killifish than for bettas.

You gusy know what I REALLY want so badly?!?!


SCARLET BADIS!!!
They're like bettas and gouramis in that they're anabantoids too; they're labryinth breathers too. MAN, are they gorgeous. They're tiny too, at .5 inch to 1 inch max. They ahve some in Long Beach at the LFS All About Fish, but I need to go home to Orange County to drop by that store. -_- Sigh, I need to find an excuse to go home soon.

OK, Mumu we need an update! How are the babies doing?? Any pics yet??

Alright... babies are still small, which I KNOW is my fault because I suck at doing water changes with them.. I will try and find the time to get pictures today... NO SCHOOL! :) But that means MORE YARDWORK! :(