Baby Kuhli Loach Explosion

[Canyoncarver]

About a month ago I posted that I had found a baby Kuhli in the gravel of our community tank. Now last weekend while my wife was siphoning the gravel we spotted tons of the little buggers everywhere in the gravel. They are absolutely tiny. They can litterally swim around in a drop of water. http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd21 ... 0811_1.jpg Yes there actually is a little one in there. Now the one we captured about a month ago has actually grown quite a bit. In the following picture there is a group of babies around the larger baby.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd21 ... 0817_1.jpg
We purchased a 2.5 gallon tank and managed to capture about 15 of the tiny babys and gave them their own little nursery. I am fairly new at posting photos but I am going to try to make a link to the baby photos.

[Mark in Vancouver]

Outstanding! Congratulations are in order. What species is this? Can you do a quick rundown of your tank conditions, food, lighting, etc? Also, what are you feeding them on?

This is really great news. Thanks for the images.

[Emma Turner]

Many congratulations, Canyoncarver! It would be great to document this into a permanent LOL article at some point, if you are happy for us to do this. Are the water parameters still about the same as last time? (http://forums.loaches.com/viewtopic.php?t=13171)

Emma

[chefkeith]

That is amazing. I never knew the fry were so tiny.

[Canyoncarver]

The water parameters are basically the same except the last couple of water changes have been almost 100%. They are extremely difficult to capture and we run out of water before the bottom is completely siphoned. There is still a bunch of little ones in the gravel but I don't want to go overboard on the water changes so we are going to wait until the next weekly cleaning to try again. The photos turned out a lot better than I expected. It is cute, the little ones herd around the larger one.

[NancyD]

Very cool, congrats! I can't imagine seeing those tiny tiny fish.

[starsplitter7]

Those babies are fantastic!

How long have you had the adults and how many are there? What's the male to female ratio?

[cybermeez]

Cute little buggers! Depending on the other species you keep, you are probably OK to leave them in the main tank. By the size of them, those fry are at least a couple weeks old. What else lives in the main tank with your Kuhlis? Also, the only filtration you are running is a UGF right? Regardless, the 2.5g tank will be is fine as long as it's fully cycled and you change the water religiously.

[Joe Khul]

"Impressive... most impressive"

Congraulations! Now if only you could share your secret! My dream is to be able to breed Kuhli's to share with my local store, as they have stopped ordering them due to poor quality suppliers.

Joe

[capeldrae]

Complete and total congratulatins.
Joe Khuli,
It to is my goal to breed khulies, apart from keeping them in a communitty tank have yoy done any experriments to try breed them?

[aerden]

Amazing.... Heartiest Congrats Canyoncarver!
Alwiz impressive in breeding pets.
How fine is your sand base?

[Canyoncarver]

Typical petsmart gravel.