Re: Rivulus Hartii

["Catherine Carney" <schmidtcarney at ecr_net>]

Hi Michiko--

Congratulations on your hartii babies. I think that you will find them fast
growing (and unpicky eaters). Sometimes "benign neglect" (and I'm a past
master at it) works well (grin).

I find hartii to be easy to sex. Females have a "rivulus spot" (dark spot at
the base of the tail) and males don't. The males of the strain I have (R.
hartii Point Redux) are also brighter and have a dark rim to their tail,
with a sulfur yellow top and bottom band.

Keep us posted on how they do.

Catherine

> I got Rivulus Hartii end of August. I have 4 of them (I think 2 male and
> 2 female.. I do not even know which is which.)
> I have kept them in 5 gallon tank. with a driftwood, a lot of java moss,
> and a lot of floating riccia.  The tanks looks ok, a little bit mess
> with java moss.
> I haven't done water change as often as I should, I feed them once a day.
> So I never really thought I would have been able to bred Riivulus Hartii.
> Now I saw two baby fishes. I am not sure if there are more than two. It
> was my first time my killie bred.

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