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Posted	Kribensis Breeding .............help
13-11-2006 21:29 by zalanz	My Kribensis have to my surprise bred in my 180l tank. I have noticed about 30 free swimming fry around a cave they have dug under a Stone. Questions ? I do not have anywhere else to move the fry or parents so what chance of any surviving with a tank consisting of a red shark, a pair of Parrilus and various neons etc.? Do the parents look after the young regardless? thanks
13-11-2006 21:29 by OLD MAN	they eat there young dont they
13-11-2006 21:30 by jonie	the parents will be very aggressivetowards possible threats so id take the fry out n put them in any other tank as the kribs will be very nasty
13-11-2006 21:41 by sonia	ignore Jonie's advice (in my opinion) let the Kribs do their thing, much more interesting fish than neons anyway. You may lost a few neons, but they cheap anyway!
13-11-2006 21:41 by OLD MAN
13-11-2006 21:43 by zalanz	Have nowhere to move anything! just curious as to what their chances will be is all
13-11-2006 21:43 by sonia
13-11-2006 21:44 by OLD MAN	i supose you will be the one telling us the zalanz
13-11-2006 21:44 by sonia	the krib fry's chances will be good, the neons chances.... not so great
13-11-2006 21:44 by OLD MAN	i always thort kribs ate there young?
13-11-2006 21:46 by jonie	they do SONIA no-one ignores me
13-11-2006 21:48 by sonia	eh? try another thread jonie
13-11-2006 21:48 by OLD MAN	sonia you telling him 2 ignore jonie. then you go and say the same as she said. but the inly difference being you would leeve them to kill the neons?
13-11-2006 21:49 by zalanz	I will let you know in due course Thanks for help anyway
13-11-2006 21:49 by sonia	like other cichlids Kribs may eat their young if disturbed or there is little chance of them rearing successfully, it will depend on the characteristics of the kirbs and NO they are not particuarly known to eat their young
13-11-2006 21:49 by jonie	thanks old man
13-11-2006 21:51 by jonie	kribs only rear their fry if you remove either the male or female preferbly the male as the male is most common to eat the fry so no there is a little chance the fry will survive but saying that myne reared 1 up till he was a man!
13-11-2006 21:52 by sonia	what nonsence Jonie "kribs only rear their fry if you remove either the male or female" the mistake you have meade here Jonie is the ONLY, please do some reseach and revise your opinion here
13-11-2006 21:53 by jonie	sorry didnt mean to say only ment to say mostly
13-11-2006 21:54 by sonia	mostly is wrong too jonie, i think the word you are looking for is....... sometimes
13-11-2006 21:55 by jonie	well if you say so lol
13-11-2006 21:55 by OLD MAN	god sonia why are you jumping on jonie so much??
13-11-2006 21:59 by sonia
13-11-2006 22:00 by jonie
13-11-2006 22:02 by sonia
13-11-2006 22:09 by Linda Chenapa	Hi, hope this is of some help, found it on the web. It is important to have other fish in the tank for the parents to chase (know as dither fish or target fish), otherwise the Kribs may take out their aggression on each other. Good dither fish are fast swimmers such barbs and tetras. Rosy Barbs make good dither fish since they are usually too fast for the Kribs to catch. The parents assist in feeding the young by spitting food to the fry. The parents will gather the fry into a school and lead them on excursions around the tank. Sometimes one parent may want to take sole care of the fry and will attack the other parent to keep it away. If this happens you should separate one of them before they kill or injure each other. If possible, do not remove the fry from the tank until the parents are ready to breed again. Removing the fry too early may result in domestic violence if the male is ready for some loving and the female is not.
13-11-2006 22:10 by Linda Chenapa	I thought people came on this forum to help others, not to slag them off?
13-11-2006 22:10 by OLD MAN	interesting
13-11-2006 22:10 by jonie	nice info linda
13-11-2006 22:11 by OLD MAN	yer
13-11-2006 22:11 by jonie	exactly
13-11-2006 22:14 by jonie	lol
13-11-2006 22:14 by OLD MAN	lets all blame sonia.
13-11-2006 22:17 by sonia
13-11-2006 22:18 by sonia	and some more red faces just for the heck of it
13-11-2006 22:27 by heros hero	right, lets sort this out. In my experience, kribs will raise their young regardless of whether there are other fish in the tank or not. Depending on the aquarium size they will just drive off other tankmates rather than outright kill them in the protection of their fry.Leave the fry with the parents as long as possible to stop them spawning again. You've got a pair now so be prepared for a constant supply of baby kribs! Good luck with it.
13-11-2006 22:30 by sonia	thats my experience too, sometimes the advice comes from a website, sometimes it comes from personal experience
13-11-2006 22:34 by heros hero	and sometimes it comes from folk that have a desperate need to respond to every single thread, regardless of knowledge or experience.
13-11-2006 22:36 by sonia	in the words of the Shining and Jack Nicholson...... HERE'S JONIE
13-11-2006 22:39 by heros hero	honestly sonia, i don't know what you mean!
14-11-2006 11:07 by tasha	pop a pic up of the parents and babys
14-11-2006 16:54 by jonie	sonia
14-11-2006 23:35 by curviceps	IME experience kribs will raise their fry whether or not there are targets in the tank, tho' the male will start to kill them off as soon as he wants to spawn again. Ive raised these in a 4' community tank and also a 3 foot tank to themselves with 6 growing out tanks and didn't notice any difference in the amount of time they defended their fry (mine averaged between month and a half to 2 months if I let them). If you were to steal all the fry from them you run the risk of the male killing your female for not doing her job (this happened to me twice, I learned my lesson)

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