There are many different ways to harvest the eggs from Killies that bottom spawn or spawn over peat. This is the way I do it. I do this with Fundulopanchax and Blue Gularis. this is probably ok for Notho's but the peat has to be much drier. Notho's and I don't get along so I do not have any experience with getting eggs from their tanks. All I ever managed to do was to kill them.

I set up most killies in a 2 or 5 gallon tank for spawning and have a certain manner that I collect the eggs.

First collect the material needed.

I move the tank to a large table. I get a plastic shoe box, a midget sized plastic shoe box, and container for the fish, a net for the fish, and a brine shrimp net.

The plants and any large clumps of peat go into the shoe box. Some of the peat goes into the smaller container. The fish get netted out and moved to float in a new tank.

The plants have been put elsewhere and the fish are floating in their new tank. Stir up the gravel lightly with your fingers and let it set for a half hour. Check carefully for little fry swimming around. Many times there will be fry all over the place. They were ready to hatch and just needed some agitation to go ahead and hatch. These small fry can be syphoned out with a turkey baster or netted with the brine shrimp net. Place them in a small container with some of the water from this tank. They will need to be moved to more appropriate quarters to raise up.

Now with the brine shrimp net, do figure 8's in the tank. do a half dozen or so and let the water drain out.

The first few times will have a lot of peat and 'stuff' in the net. Maybe you can see some eggs, maybe not. I plop this into the smaller container that already has some of the peat in it. Repeat this process over and over again. After a few times, the net will have less and less junk in it and any eggs should be very visible. Hold the net material in one hand and with the other hand roll the eggs off the net and onto your finger. Put those eggs on top of the peat in the peat container.

If you have a lot of eggs, you may be repeating this process quite a few times.

When you are done with this, you will have a nice pile of peat and eggs in the smaller container. Tilt it up so the water drains to the opposite side. Let it drain for about an hour. There should still be some water clinging to the edge of the peat. Lightly press the peat to get out any excess water. The peat will still be quite moist, but no standing or drops of water should be left.

Take all the peat and place in a plastic bag. Rubber band the bag, put on a label with the fish type and when you picked the eggs. I add roughly how many eggs I think are in the peat. I put the bag into a box that has a piece of paper on the outside listing all the contents. Store the box and more or less room temperature. I will also make an entry in my Palm Pilot program to keep it up to date.

Then clean up the tank really good, bleach if needed, and get it ready for some more fish. Oh, don't forget the guys you have floating somewhere.