Killies-- Are They Air Breathers?

TessaAndFishies · 05-20-2006, 02:40 PM

Are killies air breathers? Thanks!

Tess

**TheOldSalt** · 05-21-2006, 08:52 AM

They'll gulp air at the surface like most other fish, but no, they aren't airbreathers.

**Cichlid Man** · 05-21-2006, 11:37 AM

Dispite being alble to live in small puddles in the wild, they'll suffer in poorly oxygenated water.

05-20-2006, 02:40 PM	#1
TessaAndFishies Banned Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 169	Killies-- Are They Air Breathers? Are killies air breathers? Thanks! Tess

05-21-2006, 11:37 AM	#3
Cichlid Man Super moderator Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 2,100	Dispite being alble to live in small puddles in the wild, they'll suffer in poorly oxygenated water. __________________ If you have a big enough tank with enough hiding places, pH of around 7, you can keep virtually any fish together as long as all the fish are around the same size and these two groups of fish are avioded: Serrasalmus Tetradon(figure eights and dwarfs are the exception). I keep a successful community of fish in a 4 foot tank including the following families: Cichlids, tetras, loaches, gouramis, barbs, rainbows, livebearers, killiefish, catfish, puffers.

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TheOldSalt Darth Ichthyos Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,253	They'll gulp air at the surface like most other fish, but no, they aren't airbreathers.

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