Thank you kindly. Im sure you will enjoy my more recent content from the last 2 years if you like this older stuff. I've taken to citing sources and linking more info and current research. Anyhow, welcome and thank you
+Riley Bordelon i know i built them 30 species and African style rock hides, as well as the tree ledge and hide and they choose the pot! Please hit thumbs up if you enjoy seeing rare pelvichromis species and id be honored if you subscribed to the channel if im making helpful videos. Thanks again, and have a great day!
I had never seen this sp,before my dad gave me the pair i have,and to start,I was sure I got 2 different sp.so so see your tank was awsome, and was happy to find out that I got this cool sp.
I saw these Nigerian reds at my lsf. They looked stunning, i was tempeted to get a pair, but didn't know enough about them so i watched them and left empty handed. They are truely beautiful...i was thinking of getting the Bolivian ram but now im spoilt for choice. Nice tank by the way
+Patricia Kloeppel ill likely do a give away a pair to patreon supporters and maybe solo fish to subscribers- if they breed successfully I have new fish too, new video coming ASAP
Wow, So many new videos, it's hard to catch up on them. Happy Birthday and all the best to you and your wife. Hope your channel will be around forever. (or so 😊😊😊) Greetz, Jorn
+Modellbaustammtisch thanks kindly! Im hoping to keep people with fresh material, especially as i have no steady day graphic design gig at the moment...im trying to grow my RUclips and Patreon. Cheers
The entrance to the cave needs to be a lot smaller try and make it small enough for just the female to get threw the entrance the fish will actually usually close the entrance up themselves but that mite be a little to large for them to manage,there really easy to find in the UK LFS they where actually the first fish I bought and within 2 and a half weeks I had like 20 fry ,sadly I lost my Male but still have the female
Yeah i build rock overhangs with sand now...so the fish make their own sized den...and they spawn every 3 or 4 months ...each pair. So i think that system has worked really well w
you all prolly dont care at all but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account? I somehow lost my password. I love any tips you can offer me.
Love the love tank. I had regular Kribensis, Pulcher species I believe, maybe 20 years ago and loved them. Thinking of getting some again now that I recently got back into the aquarium hobby. Didn't know there was a different Red species of Kribensis.
+Jeff's Aquarium Hobby Enjoyment they're not fully described in scientific latin terms yet. It turns out in the thick jungles of Camroon and Nigeria there are oxbow lakes and flood plane streams with likely 100 to 200 new variants. Ill be talking about that soon in a video. Thanks for watching
+Jeff's Aquarium Hobby Enjoyment totally, id love to see your set up if you do. Also if you want access to these F1 Nigerian Reds (meaning they have red and or purple that matches while spawning). The local shops ask for 79.99 to 149.99 a fish for these special ordered from the Czech Republic, so im hoping to also reimburse myself a tad by offering the babies off to patreon supporters, where as only the males will he sold to the public
I am in Canada, and found some fancy Mlewi type Kirbensis...they did not do well for the most part, probably quite imbred. Kribs of all kinds used to be so popular in the trade...why they are not brought in and bred more these days? The Moliwe's look very similar to the Reds...different tail pattern, and brilliant colournig male and female...they don't have much pink pigment, but rather more purple. Any idea who I could ask about thsi in Canada? Stupid expensive to import from the US unfortunately.
I know one guy in the Vancouver club...and he gets his from the USA, and had a few wild caught varieties from "the wet spot" in portland Oregon (whom import a ton of wild fish species.) My main comment is, dont buy pulchers or moliwes or nigerian reds (or any albinos) and you will see far less inbred traits. Ive had to pay at least 30 dollars per fish for wild caught, so id also avoid pet stores with the generic "Krib 7.99" type of deal.
Mine are quite inbred too 😂 but doing quite fine. They're not showing any ill affects from marrying their siblings 😂. They do better with harder water, and as luck would have it, my city water is pretty hard.
Nice aquarium! I’m getting 2 fry Kribs given to me and I’m going to put them in my 10 gallon grow out tank for now but I’m wondering what tank I could move them to, I have 2, 1 tank is a 60 gallon with Gouramis, Dennison Barbs, minor and Neon Tetras, rainbows, and my other tank is a 40 gallon Guppy/ platy tank
+Barbatanas I know, im hoping to get mpre. Thanks for watching. Please hit thumbs up if you enjoy seeing rare pelvichromis species and id be honored if you subscribed to the channel if im making helpful videos. Thanks again, and have a great day!
Pulcher is more red and pink bellied and usually has one or 0 spots on the tail, where as taeniatus used to be it's own species... now they are listed by their water reservoir or basin morphs. But as a general rule they're an inch or even two shorter, a bit plumper, and have purple bellies or perhaps even orange and yellow in bipindi and moliwe morphs. Compared to the Kribensis Pulcher or Giant Krib species (ironically smaller than pulchers)... They have smaller egg clutches and raise their young a month longer. The main tell is Rosettes on their tails... 2 or 3 dots like a leopard, or one nice ringed large cheeta style dot.
@@Fishtory The names you use are not correct. "Nigerian Red" is a form of P. taeniatus, but "Bipindi" and "Moliwe" are P. kribensis, like all other forms from Cameroon called P. taeniatus before 2013. And there is no fix´sh with the scientific name "Kribensis Pulcher". North Americans usually use the wrong name "kribensis" for P. pulcher. Using "Krib" as a common name for P. pulcher is O.K. but not "kribensis". This pretends a scientific taxon.
I know this video is old, but I want to get kribensis, and I was wondering is a group of kribensis a good idea or should I only buy 1 fish and not risk me buying a lot of males and fighting occurs. The fish at my lfs are pretty small and albino so determining sex is hard, since known of them have a red belly or are bigger and fatter
My usual online shop here in Oz has just listed them a pair for $90 AUD. They're so beautiful, I'm half tempted to make a purchase, but I don't really have the room to set up another tank. I already have the standard pulcher variety, 4 generations over 10 years with 3 of those generations born in the same tank. Would be interested to see if pulcher can be crossed with taeniatus. By the way, your 'tree' looks amazing. Like an underwater willow or oak.
Hehe so they definitely will cross if you let them. But they sometimes make some pretty babies. Just let the people you sell them to that they're "Pelvicachromis X" or "kribs"
@@Fishtory for me, I would think the results would be more important than the name, itself, so I wouldn't have any reason to hide the fact that I had cross-bred them. My motivation in doing it would be to create more exotic and colourful results. If I was successful in doing this, of course I'd be honest about their pedigree if I decided to sell them, don't worry 😊. I don't think I can justify buying them at the moment since I'm not really set up to breed and sell them.
+Triple 10 Tanks a local shop owner who had them for a personal collection. But i go to their shop and bug them constantly haha. Ive only seen them for sale 2 other places in the US, but i hope to get them out to some of my Patreon supporters and do channel give aways if they successfully breed
+Triple 10 Tanks a local fish importer and store owner... wild caught as fry then taken to Prague in CZ. Republic then sold via a 6 pack of 1 inch fish and they were coaxed out of uis display tank haha., so hard to find and proven pairs are going for 140 to 399 some places because its so vivid and new.... although the care is super similar to other related color variants
+The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium also my patreon supporters will get access to the fry, when they're old enough if they breed. Anyone else will only get males
+DominiqueJolie Pets thank you, i searched high and low, but their inner beauty and kindness in a community tank and to their mate is why I really wanted them
Like your video! My Electric yellow Cichlide fish are pairing and breeding but eating all the eggs? Does anyone know how this happens and how i will stop them from eating it? Uploaded a video on my channel if someone wants to look and give me advice?
i would guess they need more protein and fat in their diet... possibly vitamins. Look for a cichlid dry food, but feed them some worms or something high in proteins, also ive found that turning caves and pipes away from one another and putting some rocks with plants around each pair's cave will help a lot. Either the mother feels hungry and malbourished (watch if she eats, dont ever just assume all your fish are eatting), but she knows she can reuse the protein by eating eggs and then have another batch when shes healthy enough to raise them. Also putting fry food like brine shrimp or vinegar eels, daphnia etc in the tank will help signal to the parents that there will be food for the fry when they hatch. If the parents think theres no food for babies and even worse- also need protein - then they will often eat the eggs and try again later when the odds of survival is higher. lastly make sure you dont have multiple pairs odd numbers of adults in too small of a space....ideally they need 10 gallons to 20 gallons for each pair and their young (although ive raised 2 pairs in a 10 gallon, its much less likely to end well) Good luck, my friend and I hope something I said is of use. cheers
ABSOLUTLY love your shows so educational
Thank you kindly. Im sure you will enjoy my more recent content from the last 2 years if you like this older stuff. I've taken to citing sources and linking more info and current research. Anyhow, welcome and thank you
Ah the circle of life! Lovely little african cichlids, you two get a flower pot! :)
+Riley Bordelon i know i built them 30 species and African style rock hides, as well as the tree ledge and hide and they choose the pot!
Please hit thumbs up if you enjoy seeing rare pelvichromis species and id be honored if you subscribed to the channel if im making helpful videos. Thanks again, and have a great day!
yes i know what you mean i have my self some and they are perfect fish for keeping love them
I totally agree
I had never seen this sp,before my dad gave me the pair i have,and to start,I was sure I got 2 different sp.so so see your tank was awsome, and was happy to find out that I got this cool sp.
Right on. Have fun and let me know how it works out!
Spectacular Cichlids!!!!
I saw these Nigerian reds at my lsf. They looked stunning, i was tempeted to get a pair, but didn't know enough about them so i watched them and left empty handed. They are truely beautiful...i was thinking of getting the Bolivian ram but now im spoilt for choice. Nice tank by the way
Happy belated birthday, Alex!
Make the entrance to the pot very narrow.
+Kroeger Markus thank you!
Happy birthday
+Bob Saget thanks Bon Saget's ghost!
Happy Birthday Alex those fish are beautiful id love a pair
+Patricia Kloeppel ill likely do a give away a pair to patreon supporters and maybe solo fish to subscribers- if they breed successfully
I have new fish too, new video coming ASAP
Wow,
So many new videos, it's hard to catch up on them.
Happy Birthday and all the best to you and your wife.
Hope your channel will be around forever. (or so 😊😊😊)
Greetz, Jorn
+Modellbaustammtisch thanks kindly! Im hoping to keep people with fresh material, especially as i have no steady day graphic design gig at the moment...im trying to grow my RUclips and Patreon. Cheers
Happy Late Birthday Dude!!!
+David Hodges thanks man!
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium I heard you get a shout out for the channel on L.R Bretz's Aquatics Live Stream! Awesome!!!
That's a very nice aquarium I love natural looking tanks, I've just got a pair of these pretty little cichlids they are a bit special
Thanks man. Have a great day
Fantastic !
Thank you kindly
The entrance to the cave needs to be a lot smaller try and make it small enough for just the female to get threw the entrance the fish will actually usually close the entrance up themselves but that mite be a little to large for them to manage,there really easy to find in the UK LFS they where actually the first fish I bought and within 2 and a half weeks I had like 20 fry ,sadly I lost my Male but still have the female
Yeah i build rock overhangs with sand now...so the fish make their own sized den...and they spawn every 3 or 4 months ...each pair. So i think that system has worked really well w
Your tank has changed so much since you made this video.
👍💕👍
💕 we need an update on this tank on Valentine’s Day 😄
+ELR haha totally
you all prolly dont care at all but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account?
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OMG what gorgeous fish!! Keep the updates coming! This is very exciting.💚🐠💚New sub
+Cecelia's Hobbies of course :)
Love the love tank. I had regular Kribensis, Pulcher species I believe, maybe 20 years ago and loved them. Thinking of getting some again now that I recently got back into the aquarium hobby. Didn't know there was a different Red species of Kribensis.
+Jeff's Aquarium Hobby Enjoyment they're not fully described in scientific latin terms yet. It turns out in the thick jungles of Camroon and Nigeria there are oxbow lakes and flood plane streams with likely 100 to 200 new variants. Ill be talking about that soon in a video. Thanks for watching
+Jeff's Aquarium Hobby Enjoyment totally, id love to see your set up if you do. Also if you want access to these F1 Nigerian Reds (meaning they have red and or purple that matches while spawning). The local shops ask for 79.99 to 149.99 a fish for these special ordered from the Czech Republic, so im hoping to also reimburse myself a tad by offering the babies off to patreon supporters, where as only the males will he sold to the public
I am in Canada, and found some fancy Mlewi type Kirbensis...they did not do well for the most part, probably quite imbred. Kribs of all kinds used to be so popular in the trade...why they are not brought in and bred more these days? The Moliwe's look very similar to the Reds...different tail pattern, and brilliant colournig male and female...they don't have much pink pigment, but rather more purple. Any idea who I could ask about thsi in Canada? Stupid expensive to import from the US unfortunately.
I know one guy in the Vancouver club...and he gets his from the USA, and had a few wild caught varieties from "the wet spot" in portland Oregon (whom import a ton of wild fish species.)
My main comment is, dont buy pulchers or moliwes or nigerian reds (or any albinos) and you will see far less inbred traits. Ive had to pay at least 30 dollars per fish for wild caught, so id also avoid pet stores with the generic "Krib 7.99" type of deal.
Mine are quite inbred too 😂 but doing quite fine. They're not showing any ill affects from marrying their siblings 😂. They do better with harder water, and as luck would have it, my city water is pretty hard.
Nice aquarium! I’m getting 2 fry Kribs given to me and I’m going to put them in my 10 gallon grow out tank for now but I’m wondering what tank I could move them to, I have 2, 1 tank is a 60 gallon with Gouramis, Dennison Barbs, minor and Neon Tetras, rainbows, and my other tank is a 40 gallon Guppy/ platy tank
Love that species! I need to get me a couple too, but from the Moliwe population :)
+Barbatanas I know, im hoping to get mpre. Thanks for watching. Please hit thumbs up if you enjoy seeing rare pelvichromis species and id be honored if you subscribed to the channel if im making helpful videos. Thanks again, and have a great day!
Have the nigerian Red Kribs bred yet?
Very nice. What's the difference between taeniatus and pulcher please? Thanks
Pulcher is more red and pink bellied and usually has one or 0 spots on the tail, where as taeniatus used to be it's own species... now they are listed by their water reservoir or basin morphs. But as a general rule they're an inch or even two shorter, a bit plumper, and have purple bellies or perhaps even orange and yellow in bipindi and moliwe morphs. Compared to the Kribensis Pulcher or Giant Krib species (ironically smaller than pulchers)... They have smaller egg clutches and raise their young a month longer.
The main tell is Rosettes on their tails... 2 or 3 dots like a leopard, or one nice ringed large cheeta style dot.
@@Fishtory The names you use are not correct. "Nigerian Red" is a form of P. taeniatus, but "Bipindi" and "Moliwe" are P. kribensis, like all other forms from Cameroon called P. taeniatus before 2013. And there is no fix´sh with the scientific name "Kribensis Pulcher". North Americans usually use the wrong name "kribensis" for P. pulcher. Using "Krib" as a common name for P. pulcher is O.K. but not "kribensis". This pretends a scientific taxon.
I know this video is old, but I want to get kribensis, and I was wondering is a group of kribensis a good idea or should I only buy 1 fish and not risk me buying a lot of males and fighting occurs. The fish at my lfs are pretty small and albino so determining sex is hard, since known of them have a red belly or are bigger and fatter
Id get 4 and see what happens hehe
@@Fishtory alright definitely do some more research but, I’ll tell you how it works in a later live streak
Do you have any for sale at the moment?
In about 2 more months of growing, check back with me :) I have some from a spawn a month or so ago
My usual online shop here in Oz has just listed them a pair for $90 AUD. They're so beautiful, I'm half tempted to make a purchase, but I don't really have the room to set up another tank. I already have the standard pulcher variety, 4 generations over 10 years with 3 of those generations born in the same tank. Would be interested to see if pulcher can be crossed with taeniatus.
By the way, your 'tree' looks amazing. Like an underwater willow or oak.
Hehe so they definitely will cross if you let them. But they sometimes make some pretty babies. Just let the people you sell them to that they're "Pelvicachromis X" or "kribs"
@@Fishtory for me, I would think the results would be more important than the name, itself, so I wouldn't have any reason to hide the fact that I had cross-bred them. My motivation in doing it would be to create more exotic and colourful results. If I was successful in doing this, of course I'd be honest about their pedigree if I decided to sell them, don't worry 😊.
I don't think I can justify buying them at the moment since I'm not really set up to breed and sell them.
I just have two females in the tank and they are shaking to each other and now hiding in the cave together. Is there any problem to them?
Nope, just some practice for the boys later
beautiful fish. where did you get them?
+Triple 10 Tanks a local shop owner who had them for a personal collection. But i go to their shop and bug them constantly haha. Ive only seen them for sale 2 other places in the US, but i hope to get them out to some of my Patreon supporters and do channel give aways if they successfully breed
+Triple 10 Tanks a local fish importer and store owner... wild caught as fry then taken to Prague in CZ. Republic then sold via a 6 pack of 1 inch fish and they were coaxed out of uis display tank haha., so hard to find and proven pairs are going for 140 to 399 some places because its so vivid and new.... although the care is super similar to other related color variants
+The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium also my patreon supporters will get access to the fry, when they're old enough if they breed. Anyone else will only get males
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium they look awesome
Oh wow beautiful:3
+DominiqueJolie Pets thank you, i searched high and low, but their inner beauty and kindness in a community tank and to their mate is why I really wanted them
I've been looking and I was wondering do you have any pairs of these for sale. Or can you send me the site I'm interested in 2 pairs
I do have about 12 fry of uncertainty gender remaining. do you live near Seattle?
👍🏻😎
Like your video!
My Electric yellow Cichlide fish are pairing and breeding but eating all the eggs?
Does anyone know how this happens and how i will stop them from eating it?
Uploaded a video on my channel if someone wants to look and give me advice?
i would guess they need more protein and fat in their diet... possibly vitamins. Look for a cichlid dry food, but feed them some worms or something high in proteins, also ive found that turning caves and pipes away from one another and putting some rocks with plants around each pair's cave will help a lot.
Either the mother feels hungry and malbourished (watch if she eats, dont ever just assume all your fish are eatting), but she knows she can reuse the protein by eating eggs and then have another batch when shes healthy enough to raise them.
Also putting fry food like brine shrimp or vinegar eels, daphnia etc in the tank will help signal to the parents that there will be food for the fry when they hatch. If the parents think theres no food for babies and even worse- also need protein - then they will often eat the eggs and try again later when the odds of survival is higher.
lastly make sure you dont have multiple pairs odd numbers of adults in too small of a space....ideally they need 10 gallons to 20 gallons for each pair and their young (although ive raised 2 pairs in a 10 gallon, its much less likely to end well)
Good luck, my friend and I hope something I said is of use. cheers