les Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 (edited) I went over to see a killi Guru friend mine yesterday to drop of some fish and grindel worms and came back with this pair of A. Deltaense A. Deltaense grows to about 10cm in length, It is a semi-annnual comming from swamps in a river delta that have a tendency to dry up. This species is a bottom spawner that uses peat and the incubation period for the eggs is around 84 days. The fry when hatched are large enough to be feed BBS and have a moderate growth rate. In the grow out tanks these fish can be pron to agresion if over crowding occures. Personaly I think this Killi is on a par with Sjoestedti in the eye candy catagory. Cheers Les Edited June 22, 2012 by les Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Very nice Les. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwalk Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 great looking fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gulp Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 My goodness, what a devine thing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bettarazzi Posted June 22, 2012 Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Very nice. More pics once you've fattened them up a bit. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted June 22, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2012 Hey Razzi They have now had two big feeds of blackworms and his couler is a lot more intence. I will put a heater in with them to spedd up there matabalism. I stuffed up my first atempt at putting the peat container in and ended up with it all over the floor of the tank, so a quick water change and I got it right the second time. I will be happy with three or four pairs of these guys to play with they are realy interactive. as seen in the pic I left my finger in there and he came right up to it just to check it out, granted I had been playing with the blackworms so that may have had somthing to do with it. Cheers Les Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
les Posted June 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2012 Today was a first for me I have taken the peat tub out of the tank and vac the floor (these guys are messy in the bedroom) Wrung peat out and air dry for the day I spoted at least six eggs but wasnt looking hard, just put peat in a bag and marked with date they will take about 84 days for incubation and then they will be my first atempt at peat spawners. Cheers Les Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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