N*A*M Posted October 12, 2005 Report Posted October 12, 2005 Hi all You might know that I have a spawn of kribensis young at the moment. They are about 2.5-3 months old. The biggest one is now about 5cm long and most of them (+60%) are over 3.5cm. But there are still about 20 odd that are really small... like 1.5cm long and they just won't grow. They're all currently in a 100L grow out tank with some corys, a loach and a BN. As fry, I started off by feeding them frozen bbs, sinking pellets (crushed into a fine powder). They all grew evenly to about 1cm. Then I increased the coarseness of the crushed food a little and some of them started overtaking the rest in growth. Then I added frozen bloodworms to the menu and most of them started growing very quickly. The catch here is that only the bigger ones could eat the worms - thus increasing the size differences. I am still supplementing their diet with the crushed dry food and they all eat it, but the little ones just won't grow. I also feed sinking pellets and algae wafers for the other fish and the kribs eat that as well. At their current age, what should their average size be? Maybe I just have some fast growers that make the rest look like runts? I have thought about removing the runts and giving them their own grow out tank. What do you think? Nam
Jess Posted October 12, 2005 Report Posted October 12, 2005 If you have space and time, I would move them to another tank. The larger ones are probaly inhibiting th runts with the hormones fry release. Or you could do more water changes (Not a good idea for a serial flooder ) A LFS might even take the runts of your hands? You could try that. Or you could send them to me to finish raising :goodo:
N*A*M Posted October 12, 2005 Author Report Posted October 12, 2005 how generous of you to offer! hehe. but if you saw the size of them, you wouldn't want to pack and send the poor buggers. i checked my records and they spawned on 25th june so they must be well undersized. definitely going to seperate the little guys to give them a chance.
N*A*M Posted October 12, 2005 Author Report Posted October 12, 2005 i just filmed some of them for a bit... http://www.point05.com/kribs3mnth.mov :)
Callatya Posted October 20, 2005 Report Posted October 20, 2005 They are cute, even stunted i'd take them. Maybe they are destined for pet homes? MOVIE IS AWESOME! (have a squiz guys ) I'd go with lots of food and a separate tank/separate water :)
Figure_8 Posted October 21, 2005 Report Posted October 21, 2005 That movie is great! They are sooo cute!!
Mishy Posted October 21, 2005 Report Posted October 21, 2005 :blush: The only thing i did was nag him into watching the water not overflow!
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