'NON-ANNUAL' KILLIFISH
In a well-planted tank, a pair is likely to spawn, although they will eat their own eggs. To avoid this problem use a spawning mop or related substrate as a spawning site.
The Non-Annuals are egg hangers, that is they lay their eggs among plants and roots and have an incubation period of between 10 days and 1 month, averaging about 14 days.
This makes raising non-annual killie spawns more expensive than raising many other fish.
The Blue Panchax is what is considered a non-annual Killie. That means that, unlike some killies, it will not die in a year. They have a lifespan of about 3 years, give or take. They also seem to vary a great deal in color schemes.
HOW I INCUBATE LYRETAILS' EGGS by Loh Kwek Leong
Summary: Lyretail and other non-annuals' eggs fungus easily. Java moss and a ghost shrimp provide a novel solution, as illustrated here in a wonderful series of close-up photographs.
Killifish are divided into three general breeding groups of annuals, semi annuals, and non-annuals (plant spawners).
Killifish species generally should not be mixed in the same aquarium.
The second group are the 'egg-hangers', those that usually spawn on plants to which the eggs then adhere. Killifish are either of the short-lived 'seasonal' or annual species or they are of the longer-lived non-annual species.
 See also: Annual, Fry, Spawn, Feeding, Fish
  
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