Youngest baby Kuhli's on record????

[wasserscheu]

Hi nitram79,

it's fun to guess with you, science is one thing but some fun should come with it. Good luck with raising and please keep updating.

[nitram79]

sorry to hear about your fish starsplitter7, i know what its like to lose little ones. i had a tank with about 400 baby mollies and guppies plus other fish, and the stand snapped and the tank smashed onto the loungeroom floor only 7 fish survived
Emma please post those pics as its hard to take that shorta shot but i had seen them from that angle and know what they look like. im nearly certain now they are halfbeaks, especially when i saw them from that side angle.
im guessing the bigger one is the mum. she's pretty cool, loves to get into the food straight away, isnt really shy and doesnt get freaked out like they say on the sites. she's obviously comfortable if she's having bubbas. the wierd thing is she doesnt look fat at all so i dont know how all these little ones came out of her.. i'll try and take that pic

[starsplitter7]

My girl was about twice as big as the boy. I kept them separated until breeding time, because when they were growing up they were beating each other up. When I put them back together they immediately started breeding. I loved both of these fish. They were active, curious, would eat from fingers. I miss them terrible, and in my fish no-mans land, I have very little hope of finding them again.

[Emma Turner]

This is Hemirhamphodon cf. pogonognathus (Sumatran yellow rainbow halfbeak) at 2mm TL. Not sure if I have any decent shots of some slightly larger than this, maybe someone else does.



Emma

[nitram79]

man that thing looks awesome wish mine looked like that. Everyones got these fancy halfbeaks, i think i have just the plain ones,with slight yellow fins. The boy is silvery yellow and girl is a silvery dark purpley grey,lol, hows that for a description. The girl is much bigger then the boy, but they really seem like a couple as i have never seen them fight, not even a bit. And last night i caught both the mum and dad swimming next to the baby enclosure, looking in on thier little ones,lol.

[nitram79]

here is an updated pic. you can see the older ones starting to grow beaks
in a week i'll take the biggest ones out of there little enclosure and see how they go. they can meet thier parents he he



I couldnt get that side shot emma, its just too hard, camera would focus but pic comes out blurry. And mine arent so wildly coloured like the one you put up(thats a really nice pic)