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The scientiffic name is The Common Lyretail is also known as
This species originates from Africa. The Common Lyretail grows to about Several strains and color variants of the Killifishes (also called killi, killies, killis, killifish or egglaying toothcarps)
is a large group of fishes. Many of them live for only a few months
during the rainy season, and die when the dry season comes. Because
of this, they have evolved eggs that can wait for the next rain to
fall before the eggs hatch. For aquarist this means that you can breed the
killies, pick up the eggs and send them trough If you love killifishes it is recommended to join a killi society, for example:
A killi society provides a good connection between different killi breeders. Killi enthusiast stay in contact with eachother all over the world and trade eggs trough the snailmail. Killies are seldom found in aquarium stores, so these contacts are often the only way of getting a rare species. Because the import of killies is quite small. Some killi enthusiasts travel and catch killies in the wild. A few journeys are usually performed every year. Through these journeys many previously unknown species have been discovered. The aquarum to keep most types of small killies, like the Common Lyretail, can be any aquarium of about twelve Liters (about 2,6 US Gallons) or larger. Killies can usually be kept in a normal community aquarium together with non agressive fishes, but make sure to have a lid or other preventive measures to prevent the killes from jumping out of the aquarium. If you keep the killies in a species aquarium, you can arrange it in the following manner: Some normal aquarium gravel on the bottom, one or two handfuls of peat above the gravel and a large bunch of java moss. The java moss should fill up about 80 percent of the watervolume. To breed the Common Lyretail you don't need much preparation. In an aquarium for breeding you can put some peat on the bottom and preferably a yarn mop. (A bunch of artificial wool.) You let the aquarium mature without fish for a few days and then you put in the breeder fish. It is appropriate to use one male and one female, or one male and two females. The fish will hopefully start to breed within a few hours. The male swims close to the female and show his fins. If the female is willing to spawn, she follows the male until they find a place to spawn. Then the pair stand side by side and tremble with force. The eggs and sperm are released. When the breeding fish have been in the aquarium for about one week it is time to move them back to their ordinary aquarium. The eggs hatch after about two weeks if you let the eggs stay in the aquarium. The fry can eat artemia naupli from the start. Raising the fry is easy. The new generation is ready to spawn when the fish are about three months old. You can also breed the Common Lyretail with the Links in english about the Common Lyretail:
Scandinavian links about the Common Lyretail:
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