N. guentheri eggs

I get kudos as well as infusoria
First, I by the wife some flowers, after a week or so I'm really helpful to her and I change the water in the vase for her but take the old water through to the fish room.
If you are rearing a lot of fry you can get a large container and fill with water, drop in a lettuce leaf, then leave it bright light. It will eventually go cloudy (bacteria) and then the cloudiness starts clearing (infusoria eating bacteria) once it's clear then you can feed that. After two or three days on infusoria I then mix infusoria with micro worm - that way stragglers are still fed.
You can buy starter cultures which are pure paramecium and a lot of breeders claim it's the best.
If you have a garden pond then that will be teeming with infusoria.
It's even easier to culture than microworms plus the wife thinks I'm awfully romantic
Bill

wildlifebiology93 wrote:

I agree with Bill.
Infursoria is a great first food for the tiny fry of some of he killifish species.
Have you got a planted tank Craig?
If you do you will probably have a culture going already unknowns to yourself.

I have some plants in one of the Betta trios and also a lot of floating plants in the 120 litre community tank

I had been using paramecium until it crashed in the warm spell of weather we got. Fantastic 1st food for new killifish fry. I really must get some more soon.

Eric

Bill wrote:

I get kudos as well as infusoria
First, I by the wife some flowers, after a week or so I'm really helpful to her and I change the water in the vase for her but take the old water through to the fish room.
If you are rearing a lot of fry you can get a large container and fill with water, drop in a lettuce leaf, then leave it bright light. It will eventually go cloudy (bacteria) and then the cloudiness starts clearing (infusoria eating bacteria) once it's clear then you can feed that. After two or three days on infusoria I then mix infusoria with micro worm - that way stragglers are still fed.
You can buy starter cultures which are pure paramecium and a lot of breeders claim it's the best.
If you have a garden pond then that will be teeming with infusoria.
It's even easier to culture than microworms plus the wife thinks I'm awfully romantic
Bill

Hahahahah romantics are a dying breed Bill hahahah

Very helpful comments thanks so much.

One day when I'm aloud a fish room I'll buy the wife flowers everyday hahah


Regards
Craig

Eric wrote:

I had been using paramecium until it crashed in the warm spell of weather we got. Fantastic 1st food for new killifish fry. I really must get some more soon.

Eric

I'm going to make sure I have at least 3 healthy cultures of food when I try to hatch again.

Regards Craig

fishmad1234 wrote:

wildlifebiology93 wrote:

I agree with Bill.
Infursoria is a great first food for the tiny fry of some of he killifish species.
Have you got a planted tank Craig?
If you do you will probably have a culture going already unknowns to yourself.

I have some plants in one of the Betta trios and also a lot of floating plants in the 120 litre community tank

You can find infusoria in most water bodies, even roadside puddles. If you don't buy your wife flowers then the lettuce leaf trick works great. There are hundreds of ways to do it, I'd be surprised if there isn't a YouTube video or two.
Bill

Craig, the best way to get permission for anything to do with fish is buy infusoria woops! I mean flowers
Bill

Bill wrote:

Craig, the best way to get permission for anything to do with fish is buy infusoria woops! I mean flowers
Bill

Yet again Bill is on the ball with the buying of flowers but one bunch may not be sufficient enough to keep our other halves sweet.
"infursoria" can produce a delicate aroma from it so if done indoors chocolate may be advisable along with the floẃers

Although "infusoria" is not a specific group of organisms............you won't beat "infusoria" for killifish fry.

Now, some newly hatched killies are large enough to take newly hatched brine shrimp............but I don't really recommend that for any of the annual killifish (eg Nothobranchius,on the first day or 2)

I would generally use an initial innoculation from a very mature Betta breeding tank (or similar eg rivering African Cichlid breeding tanks) where I would have chunks of peat as the substrate.......the chunks of peat and some water are then added to the killi eggs.
That has a great supply of initial food.

I wouldn't use aged killifish water for hatching annual killifish though.

ian

igmillichip wrote:

I wouldn't use aged killifish water for hatching annual killifish though.
ian

I was told that way back, but I don't think I ever found out why. It was one those things the old boys told you and you did it because they knew best
What is the reason, Ian?
Bill.

There are a few reasons, and some are moot for certain species.

Now, eggs that hatch in situ where desposited are not included in the exclusion of killifish water for hatching.
But, I have found some species are stubborn to hatch in waters where adults live.
Disease (especially things like Camallanus worm and velvet) might be more likely transmitted from killi to killi as killies may often have those problems. I have never had velvet or Camallanus in Bettas nor in African Cichlids (the types of fish I would use for getting my water for hatching).
That is just an extra precaution I tend to take considering that some eggs can be tricky enough in the first place.

ian

Thanks, Ian.
Bill