KillifishesTooth Carp ~ Pupfish ~ Topminnows
Family: AplocheilidaeGolden Wonder Killifish
Aplocheilus lineatusPhoto © Animal-World: Courtesy David Brough ...
Killifishes: These are fish with a low life-span, often only for a year. Sods law, they are also some of the prettiest. Click here to see pictures and info.
Killifishes
Lyretail Killifish (Aphyosemion australe)
Gardneri Killifish (Fundulopanchax gardneri) ...
The native killifishes are covered in chapter 14. Members of the American Killifish Association trade many of these colorful fishes through the mails.
Throughout the world there are concerned aquarists in the ranks of specialty organizations involved with livebearers, killifishes, cichlids, rainbowfishes, etc.
See Scheel's _Atlas of Killifishes..._, TFH, for example. In the general range of 4 to 10, most fish probably cannot feel the pH by any known sensory mechanism.
killies -- keeping Killifishes.
alt.aquaria.oscars -- keeping Oscars. Group created mid-1998 by Mark Stone of Oscar Study Page fame.
alt.binaries.aquaria -- pictures, may not be carried by many servers.
There are also some E-mailing lists.
Summary: African cichlids, rainbowfishes and killifishes in particular can often be hybridised, either deliberately or accidently. This is a "crime against the species" and should not be done, especially with rare or endangered species.
The Order Cyprinodontiformes contains the rivulines, killifishes and live bearers.
At Tower Books and other ``mainstream'' bookseller chains and larger book stores, you will find Barron's series of translation of German aquarium books, all between $5 and $8, concentrating on specific categories of fish (Killifishes (ISBN ...
One of the easiest to keep Killifishes, well suitable for the community aquarium, breeding is simple as well. Young fish can be found regularly in the trade.
Heinz Ott
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Epiplatys spilargyreius ...
Family: Aplocheilidae (Killifishes)
Order: Cyprinodontiformes (rivulines, killifishes and live bearers)
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) ...
Class: Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) Order: Cyprinodontiformes Family: Aplocheilidae (Killifishes), subfamily: Aplocheilinae
First European import: Germany, 1972, by Herzog and Bochler.
Description: See picture.
· Annual = term which when referring to fishes indicates a species with a life span of less than a year which will spawn only once (i.e. killifishes)
· Anoxia = Gk term for the absence of dissolved oxygen in a water solution ...
 See also: Killifish, Water, Fish, Aquarium, Species
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