ed seeley

I've got a number of non-annual killis and keep them all in communities of some kind when adult. Some of these are with other killis but my Epiplatys are in with Apistogrammas and pencilfish. I think the main rule is to not put them in with anything too boisterous IME.
I have kept the Aplocheilus lineatus 'Gold' pisctured above in a more robust community tank and they did really well with Congo Tetras and Pelvicachromis, definitely a good starter killi for mixing with others. I'd recomend the Epiplatys dageti too, gorgeous fish.

EahInMass

Thanks!

rs79

In my experience (33 years) keeping killies I find them hardier and easier to raise than anything except wild guppies. Look at aquabid and you can get more eggs in a day than you can in a year of AKA listings.

They're shy and don't breed all at once, instead laying a few eggs every day. These are about the only reasons petshops don't stock them. That and the females are drab brown fish.

Nobody whose into killies gets them from a petshop, module the very occasional rare wild import of something like annulatus. Killifans trade among themselves and are happy to infect others with the bug.

emo_batsukeman

nice killies

melgrj7

I just got into killies I got a pair of A. bitaeniatum "ijebu ode". They are an easy one, I was told they would be a good starter killi. They breed into a spawning mop and I collect eggs every other day or so. Still waiting for my first eggs to hatch, they have another week or so I think. They are in a 2 gallon tank and love to eat!

rs79

These are one of the coolest fish ever. I had a self sustaining colony of them - 6 pairs in a well planted 20. They didn't even need feeding, they lived off the microorganisms on the plants. I had this colony for 2 yeaes and fish would come and go in the tank, it would range between 6 and 8 pairs.

The light failed while I was away on business, and they were all dead within 2 weeks.

It was a nice little balanced ecosystem while it lasted though.

Here's a (bad) pic of them (digitized from an old camcorder in the pre-digicam era and ok they're Lagos not Ijebu-ode, almost the same fish though:







Here's JJ Scheels pictute of them from the cover of "Rivulins of the old World", for a few decades probably the most famous killi picture ever (used with permission of the Scheel family)



More pics at:

http://images.killi.net/b/BIT/

AQUASAUR

Hi, here is a little photo-reportage about a very interesting event here in Bulgaria(Botevgrad), happened at the end of the last year…

KAB Killi international Exhibition'2007


Sorry, my photos about are not with much god quality, but important details are enough visible, though…

The view of entire 130 Killies tanks, just after had placing the Fish inside:




Here is the International Jury Team, ready to estimate All these Beautiful competitors…
(not without me, of course the last one in the right)



Here are the total final results after:
http://tsvetkov.be/Killi/KAB_show_2007_results.pdf

And a look at the first day open (photos of my friend):






SO, here is the first batch of Fish photos:

Simpsonichtys spec Urucuia


Aphyosemion Australe Cap Lopez


Archiaphyosemion Petersi Banco Park


Rivulus xiphidius Fourgassie SH-FG 05/06


Epiplatys Annulatus

rich311k

Wow pretty fish!

AQUASAUR

So, here is the next batch:

Nothobranchius Jubbi Warfa Blue


Fundulopanchax Filamentosus Ijebu Ode


Nothobranchius Rubripinnis Kiziko


Rivulus Tenuis Papaloapan


Aphyosemion Celiae Teke CXC 21

AQUASAUR

Here is one Fundulopanchax series…

Fundulopanchax gardneri gardneri N'sukka


Fundulopanchax Gresensi Dagua Ntale


Fundulopanchax Spoorenbergi


Fundulopanchax Puerzli


Fundulopanchax Ndianus