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FS: Proven pair

Becca

Members
Of outgoing west-African cichlids with cute faces and funny personalities. They have deep red-purple bellies, gold fringes to dorsal and caudal fins, and striking spots and stripes.

These are a hardy fish that survive most anything and will spawn most anywhere. I'm pretty sure if you put them on a leash and took them for a walk, you'd have babies by the end of the walk. That said, those statements have not been evaluated by PETA and it's entirely possible that, upon reading them, a PETA representative will skin me and wear me as a coat.

These are fun fish and they don't need a big tank. They spawn very readily and will happily escort their fry cloud around the tank and show them off. They are excellent parents and eagerly push around fish 3x their size if they want to move their fry. You want a show? Throw in a new era grazer - you'll have two adults and a cloud of fry nibbling away, while an entire tank of large fish waits on the wings looking sad and hungry. They've spawned multiple times in our 150 gallon which has larger cichlids and about 100 extra large Raphael cats.

If you haven't guessed it, they're Kribensis, but if I'd put that in the title, you never would've read this post!

Make me an offer, odds are, I won't turn you down... After all, I only have about 8 million fry growing out in the 150.
 

dogofwar

CCA Members
Like 98% of the folks in our club have never successfully bred kribensis... they're awesome fish, great for communities or a species tank...colorful, relatively peaceful, hard to kill... other than a couple of people breeding them and being generous in spreading them around I'm not sure how they got the bad rap around here as being worthless...

Long story short, give them a try. You won't be disappointed.

Matt
 

chriscoli

Administrator
Of outgoing west-African cichlids with cute faces and funny personalities. They have deep red-purple bellies, gold fringes to dorsal and caudal fins, and striking spots and stripes.

When I read that one sentence....I thought to myself....KRIBS!
 

Localzoo

Board of Directors
I've kept them they are awesome to keep.(def characters)
Matt I think the bad rap is from being defensive when they breed.....but so are all cichlid parents.
Anywhoo, I would say give these a try, they are awesome!


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Becca

Members
I think they get a bad rap because they're "easy," kind of like rainbow cichlids or convicts. I always figured they didn't sell because everyone in the club had them and had already bred them.
 

chriscoli

Administrator
They come and go in the club. We were overrun with them a few years ago and now they don't come up often in the auction.
 

verbal

CCA Members
One thing I think that kribs and rainbow cichlids "suffer" from is being "too cute" to use as feeders.

I am sure there are a number of people in the club who have convict pairs that have hundreds of offspring that never make it out of their fish rooms.
 

dogofwar

CCA Members
Exactly - "Common" is exceedingly local and usually temporary.

Too often folks get caught up in acquiring "rare" fish, chasing the flavor of the week or trying to make their first million selling the fry from something or other... while they haven't even successfully kept and bred fish like kribs... or other foundational cichlids species.

I like to say the rarest fish is the common one that is kept well, bred well and maintained for a full lifetime. I give guys like Frank a ton of respect for doing just that...and was so happy to see one of his platies win Best of Show at one of our fish shows a few years back....and marvel at the quality of the stock that he routinely produces.

Matt

They come and go in the club. We were overrun with them a few years ago and now they don't come up often in the auction.
 

dogofwar

CCA Members
Guilty on the latter... but not guilty on the former. I can attest that, among others, Crenicichla love them some rainbow cichlid!

Matt

One thing I think that kribs and rainbow cichlids "suffer" from is being "too cute" to use as feeders.

I am sure there are a number of people in the club who have convict pairs that have hundreds of offspring that never make it out of their fish rooms.
 
I've kept kribs years ago with great success. I've bred pulcher, kienke, moliwe, Nigeria reds all in 10g tanks with great breeding success. I'm actually in the process of setting up 8 15g tanks specifically for taeniatus species. Post pictures please.
 

Becca

Members
I've kept kribs years ago with great success. I've bred pulcher, kienke, moliwe, Nigeria reds all in 10g tanks with great breeding success. I'm actually in the process of setting up 8 15g tanks specifically for taeniatus species. Post pictures please.

Easier said than done! I moved them to a tank with no light that's on the floor last night because they were picking on some of the other fish in the 150 getting ready to spawn again. I'll have to see if I can find an old picture.

We have a lot of their offspring, too, which I can bring to meetings if anyone else would like some.

I have a male P. taeniatus "lobe" but he killed his wifey. I'm hoping to pick up a new wifey for him at the October meeting.
 
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