Hi there
I am a new member of the AKA, I joined yesterday and have been reading as much as I can. I choose to join this group as I am 3 hours away from the closest club, WAKO. I have small children so being gone for a day to attend a club meeting is unlikely to happen.
I am very interested in trying a few different types of killies. I have had aquariums for over 10 years and experience breeding egg scatterers. I just setup 5x 5gallon aquariums for killies, no heaters and I drilled through the polycarbonate tops to bring down an airline for the sponge filters so the aquariums are completely secure, no gaps to jump out of.
I am very curious to try epiplatys annulatus due to information that I read that I may be able to have a larger group of them, not sure if that’s true but that would be amazing to see. I am also interested in a notho due to the great colors but I haven’t done enough research to know more than that. My water is pretty hard, but I have read that there are killies that would appreciate it.
Ph 7.8
10 dKH
4.5 dGH
I would love any input, or if you could steer me in a better direction I would appreciate it. Is the forum it still a good place to post on? Is it true that the fish and egg list don’t come out until the temperatures are generally a little warmer? Getting eggs in the mail sounds greats to me as it seems easier than shipping fish.
Welcome to the AKA! I totally get the struggle of trying to balance the killifish hobby with a young family (my kids are 3 and 1). It’s definitely a bit of a challenge attending meetings when you’ve got little ones running around.
WAKO is a great club, and I strongly recommend making the trip to their annual show in November if you can swing it. It’s usually one of the best shows in the country. I’ve heard Tropical Magic/Killi Karnival in South Bend IN, is very good too, and that’s coming up in April.
If you have not already, check out the member map. There might be a some AKA members closer to where you live.
Your water is actually not that hard and you can keep lots of “moderately” challenging Fundulopanchax and Aphyosemion species. In SoCal we have a similar dKh but about 3-4x higher dGh.
I have Epi. annulatus and a few Notho species here in Southern CA, and I can ship them when the weather warms up where you are.
E. annulatus are more comfortable in groups but a large group of them are not stunning like large group of tetras (always moving in a tightly coordinated school). I’ve kept groups of 100+ and Epi. annulatus don’t constantly move around. They congregate together but not really in any formation. They are still beautiful fish, and I hope my anecdote did not disappoint.
