Peat Spawning Killifish Tank

This is a 5 gallon tank with a "goldfish" sponge bubble filter (shaped like a 4 leaf clover, roughly), a bunch of peat moss, duckweed (grows really well in peat moss - surprised me!) and 3 killies. The killies are... Nothobrachius guentheri, one male and two females. I bought them at a club auction in spring of 1997. They are doing well. It was hard to feed them at first - they'd only eat frozen bloodworms, and often they weren't interested in food at all, but eventually they warmed up to flake food, and now eat like little piggies. The females are almost always round with eggs (I hope), and I just took out my first batch of peat to "winter". They don't live long (the adults), so hopefully I'll have some hatchlings in a few weeks. I'm not sure how often people harvest the peat from breeding killie tanks, and I guess the eggs are too small to see - I didn't spot any. We'll see.. another adventure..

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Last Modified June 13, 1997