Love is in the air!!!LOL

[Pisidan]

Ok now my kribs have laid eggs! I just keep getting my fish to lay eggs so exciting im hoping I have enough room..when the kribs hatch whcih i thinkn is soon cause I see the eggs moving Do I remove the fry or leave them in with the parents? They laid eggs faster than I expected! Any help and suggestion would be helpful thanxs!!

[FreeFloat]

You can do either.  Kribensis are excellent parents.  If you do leave the fry in with the parents remove all non-parental fish (including dithers) as the parents become extremely aggressive when raising the brood.

I had to remove one batch of krib fry during my move from Kingston to Toronto, into a separate (1G) tank as I feared the parents, sufficiently stressed by the move, might eat the fry.  Of the dozen or so I chose to "hand raise", I have 4 that are now 1" big.

I have left fry in the same tank as the parents and they will continue to raise them as long as they (the fry) survive.  To date though, whether they're eaten by the non-breeding pair or whatever, I haven't been able to see any babies successfully raised to larger than 1/4".  I suspect they got eaten due to the fact I hadn't removed the non-parental fish (no place to move them to - I tried removing a few of the young fry to the 1G tank where they were eaten by their older brethren)

So yes, ideally leave the fry in with the parents, and remove all other fish.

[Pisidan]

Ok thanxs thing is I dont know which is the mother'/father cause only one is guarding them the other 2 kribs are haning out on the other side of the tank the one guarding is the most colourful one

[gvv]

Personally, I always take the fry from the tank.
The problem here is in this case they begin breeding once again in less than a month...
Yes, they are perfect parents, and don't stop fighting even with Crabro or C. Moorii, which are MUCH more bigger. From the other hand in my other tank with tiger barbs, pl*cos, corys, etc, where everybody knows what to expect if they are trespassing the kribs territory, even betta feels safe.

[FreeFloat]

Ok thanxs thing is I dont know which is the mother'/father cause only one is guarding them the other 2 kribs are haning out on the other side of the tank the one guarding is the most colourful one

That would be Mom Kribensis.  Kribs are one of the few species in which the females tend to color up brighter than the males.

In my 25G I have two male and 2 female kribs.  (When I bought them they were too young to be reliably sexed.)  Whichever female krib decides it's time to have more babies, she'll color herself brilliantly and start courting her chosen male, who will then typically gain some color as well.  In my tank, the non-breeding pair will get very dull in coloration and stay out of the way of the breeding kribs until all the fry have either died/disappeared or gotten large enough to fend for themselves.

Interesting to note is that in my tank the pairs seem to be "tag teaming" who gets to be parents in any given month.  One of my male kribs had his tail badly chewed up by a Dad Krib a couple of months ago, yet most recently (after the tail grew back) he got his chance to be Dad.

Last breeding cycle both of my females colored at the same time and started courting the respective males.  You can tell they're courting when they sidle up to a male, bending sideways to make their stomachs look extra colorful and round.  The male will likely continue as if he doesn't see the female, but sometimes I catch sight of a male shimmying in response to the female's courtship.  I guess one of the females produced eggs sooner then the other, as she moved into the cave and the other two kribs promptly went into stealth mode, losing their coloring and hiding in the less-desirable cave across the tank.

Kribs are quite fascinating little fish........

[ambushman2j]

im hoping I have enough room.. and suggestion would be helpful thanxs!!

Welcome to my world buddy!

Buy more tanks! and join the cichlid source cichlid selling team to move some out

[FreeFloat]

and join the cichlid source cichlid selling team to move some out

A person can join that?? I assumed it was just a shop site.........

[s0me]

ambushman2j:

Do you want some free hosting? I noticed that you are using rogers for your hosting.

Let me know, I can accomodate you with a small pkg for free. (domain not included of course).

Thanks.

[Pisidan]

hey If I had the money I would definetly buy more tanks..and it is not the tanks that usually end up being the problem is the bloody filters...if I had the money I would buy Artw setup and just get it over with LOL!! Should be interesting to see the krib fry though does anyone know how long till the fry hatch appr.?

[FreeFloat]

About a week to 10 days - mine were only about 5 days til the eggs disappeared but another 5 days til the young appeared out of the cave.  (I'm guessing they stay hidden til they're old enough for free swimming)

LOL as for Art's setup - you and me both.  In my case although I will have the money before long, I am limited by space in my tiny apartment...........

[ambushman2j]

Well, the cichlid source is defined as a separate entity that contracts cichlid sellers, the origonal idea called for each seller to give a % of what they sell back to the business to build capital with out having to have an initial investment..  so basically it could have as many sellers as it can handle the more people selling and more business it does the sooner there might be an actual store front some day or a more professionally done website.

the rogers is just hosted through my personal internet access so I pay it anyways