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Aphyosemion Bivittatum Funge
Aphyosemion Bivittatum Funge Male - Aphyosemion Bivittatum Funge © Justin Stofko Male - Aphyosemion Bivittatum Funge © Justin Stofko Under different lighting. A pair of Aphyosemion Bivittatum Funge By Justin ...
Aphyosemion Striatum , (or How I Got Started with killifish)
Copyright Tony Pinto (reprinted with permission from the author) A brilliant flash of green, red and yellow was all I saw as the fish dashed into the Java moss in the glass tank. It was my first encounter with killifish and I was hooked! I had bec ...
Can't Stop Breedin’ ‘em
Killies started me on the path to fish geek. It kinda crept up on me. Before I knew it I was speaking in tongues, usually Latin. I found myself peering into little tanks with a flashlight, washing peat moss, buying yarn for mops, mailing fish around ...
Choosing Your Breeders
When starting with a new species of killifish, it is always a good idea to start with more than one pair. Initially you will want to breed your fish by mixing and matching those you have purchased until you have a nice sized group of fry coming along ...
Force Hatching...When are Eggs Ready to Hatch?
Some Killi eggs don’t always hatch on time. When your expected hatch date comes and goes, check the “eyes” of the embryo in the egg. Even without a microscope you should be able to see the embryo in the egg. If a gold ring is visib ...
Keeping Fry Warm and Cozy in Winter
This time of year, our fishroom gets too chilly for some of the fry that need warmer water. My solution is the use of a heating pad under some of my fry containers. I purchased a regular heating pad, the kind used for sore muscles, at a discount sto ...
Misaje with an Attitude
A young male Misaje resides in a 2 1/2 Gallon bowl on my desk at work. He’s now alone, because he was unkind to the A. australe and A Ogoense that used to reside with him. I was amazed one day to see him flaring his gills and wagging his tale f ...
Norm's "Hands-off" Hatching Method
After struggling over the years with hatching eggs collected from certain Killie species, I have come to realize that there are certain fish eggs which just can’t be handled. This is undoubtedly one of the reasons a fish gets the label “ ...
Peat Incubation vs. Water Incubation
Many eggs which are traditionally water-incubated can easily be incubated on top of peat and there are many benefits from this type of incubation. Even many of the so-called "problem fishes" become much easier by using such a meth ...
Raising Brine Shrimp Outdoors
Brine shrimp are a staple food for tropical fish. Although hatching baby brine shrimp is a daily practice for most fish breeders, adult brine shrimp are usually purchased from local pet shops in either live, frozen or freeze dried form. Unfo ...
Raising North American Killies
If anyone is interested in trying some brackish North American species, I recommend pulvereus and confluentus, the bayou killie and marsh killie respectively. Others that are nearly as good are grandis (cocahoe - gulf killie), heteroclitus (mummicho ...
Rivulus, The Ugly Ducking
My first stint at keeping South American killifish was in the mid-seventies. At that time, the killies classified as Rivulus were affectionately known as brown worms by most hobbyists. When I returned to the hobby some twenty years later, the ugly ...
Success With Killifish
The first three chapters of Ed Warner's popular and highly recommended book are below courtesy of Ruth Warner. These chapters are provided to assist as an introduction to beginners as well as to provide a taste of Ed's common sense approach to keepin ...
Unlikely Tank Mates
Without realizing it, I had 20 very small Biv. Funge fry growing up in a tank with some 5" Fp. Fallax Malende. This was a Fallax Malende breeding set-up. I had placed a pair of Biv. Funge in with them to grow out as show fish.The other day, whil ...
Why Oak Leaves?
There have been frequent threads over the years as to why oak leaves are preferable to other species’ leaves, especially maple leaves, for tank litter in Killie tanks. The book I'm currently reading sheds some light on the subject. The Vegetati ...
Zebrinus Serendipity
Zebrinus Serendipity By Howie Galoff in collaboration with Guy Bagley Commonly known as the "Plains Killifish" (undoubtedly referring to its native habitat - the Great Plains), we acquired a North American native killifish at the 200 ...