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Killifish breeders in other countries speak of their killie rooms. Over here in sunny Singapore, real estate is hard to come by so I don't have a killie room to show you. What I have though, are many killie tanks and they are all over the HDB flat where I live. My tanks can be found in the balcony, the living room, the dining room and even outside my house along the corridor. Psst, don't tell the authorities. |
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In my balcony, I use a bench and a rack to hold my killie tanks. Those on the bench are glass tanks and I use them to raise and breed killies. Those on the rack are plastic tanks. I use sponge filters in some tanks and undergravel filters in others. In the bigger tanks, I use small powerheads. |
| I let Duckweed grow on the surface of my killie tanks as they help prevent the fish from jumping. Killies are good jumpers and will jump through the smallest gap so make sure your tanks are well covered. |
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In the afternoons, the sun shines directly on the fish tanks in my balcony. The temperature in the tanks go as high as 31 degrees Centigrade sometimes but the fish don't seem the worst for it. |
| Under the bench holding the glass tanks, I have many raising trays. In the trays, there's no filtration or aeration. I keep the trays under the tanks because one, it's cooler there and two, I'm running out of space. |
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I have a killifish tank rack in my dining room too. It's cooler in the dining room so I use this rack to keep Aphyosemions. There's a layer of gravel in all my Aphyosemion tanks as I find they help to keep the fish stable and less skittish. For filtration, I use sponge filters. Killies do not like turbulent water so do not use a powerhead for filtration unless it's a big tank. |
| The terrarium outside my house where I keep many Fundulopanchax gardneri N'sukka. I don't collect their eggs but let them breed and multiply in the terrarium like the way they do in their natural habitats. |
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