New killies- Epiplatys togolensis

[severum mama]

I haven't been able to find much information about these since we picked them up at a club auction yesterday. We got a pair and they are settling in nicely. What little information I can find suggests that they are easy to breed and max out around 8 cm, so I think ours have a little growing to do still. Here are a few pics and if anyone has any more info for us about this species, feel free to share it.

female

male

 

[Mrc8858]

He's stunning.. I'm jealous now lol

 

[skywhitney]

he looks like a little baracuda! That's awesome!

 

[Tetra1990]

That male is amazing looking!!!

 

[severum mama]

Thanks guys. Managed to get a few more shots a little while ago.

female

male

So no one else has kept these before? We've kept Epiplatys dageti in the past but didn't manage to breed them. They were in an open top community tank and the male jumped out. The togolensis pair is in a covered tank by themselves, a JBJ Nano 180 8 gallon tank. Stock filtration was removed and replaced with sponge filter, but we're still running the stock 11W PC bulb for the plants.

 

[Samzter]

I love killies! I'm glad you got some! Sorry I don't have any info, but just thought I'd let you know that they are stunning fish!

 

[maxwellag]

Those are super cool! Their tails remind me of the anomalas.

 

[bud29]

Those look awesome!

I sadly have never kept any killifish, but I intend to at some point.

 

[bettaowner]

I love killiefish but not many fish stores sell them.