30 Eggs of Killifish Tropical Fish NOTHOBRANCHIUS RACHOVII Beira 98

How to Hacth your Killifish. 1. Please keep eggs on constant temperature (suggest use Styrofoam box) and should keep away from the lighting. The temperature should higher than 29 degrees C. The lower temp may cause of delay hatching. 2. Hatch your killifish eggs with peat . 3. To wet the peat, fill up a plastic tray (20 cm X 20 cm) with aged water to a depth of about 5 cm. 4. Normally, you will see fry within 2 days and wait about 7-10 days before move them. Because the fry is very small and it still swim not well. (If the water level drops,fill up clean water.( Do not change all of water). 5. You can move the fry by Pipette. Be Careful! Rough handling can lead to broken backs and dead fish. Do not use a net to move fry as same as fish because it may suffer shock and trauma. 6. Put some Java or Christmas mossin the "raising tray". Because Moss encourages the growth of infusoria and also serves as a "security blanket" for the fry. 7. Do not put too many fry into one tray or else the mortality rate will be high. Shoul not have more than 20 fry in a 20 cm raising tray. 8. Two days after wetting, dry the peat and bag it. Chances are very good that there will be more fry when you wet the peat again in another 2 weeks. Some eggs, normally, will not hatch during the first wetting or even the 2nd and 3rd wetting. It's known as diapause, mother nature's back- up system to ensure that in the event of a false or freak shower, not all the fish will be wiped out when the pond dries up again.