Needing some kribensis info..?

I've bred kribs since 1969. The reason you find conflicting information about kribs is that all of the writers are right.....about the kribs they had.

Kribs have a lot of personality and they each go by their own set of rules, until they decide to change it. You could have a trio that gets along, maybe a reverse trio. Maybe your fish breed in a harem or an orgy, or a strict male/female pair.

One thing is pretty likely. Whatever is working now is going to stop working, except when they want to throw you off (so it seems).

A dead breeding male or a dead breeding female can happen very often. Even though you can be lucky and have one pair that breeds time after time with no problems. That does take luck, and maybe a little forgetting about the actual body count. You can try lots of things, and lots of them are likely to work.

What I do reduces the mortality rate of adult breeders and also increases the genetic diversity of the fry I raise. There are other ways to do it, and I know because I have done most of them one time or another. But after 40+ years I'm tired of pulling out bodies so I try to create a situation that may be duplicating what could happen in nature. When a pair starts herding around their fry, I move out the parent that stays on the outskirts of the family, usually the male. In nature he is the first to be picked off by a predator trying to get at the fry. When some of the fry begin to show some red color, I move out the remaining parent. I keep about 3" of Java moss on the tank bottom for the fry to hide in, like a blanket or carpet, it's wall to wall. Move the fry to larger tanks, still with the Java moss, I have several 75's and a couple 125's so I use space in those. I never put the same male and female together twice. In nature, my guess is that each breeding season is a new start with new partners, so my fish practice serial monogamy. Even with that advantage, i still get a fish once in a while who is to rough on their mate or kills them. I've found that once they "taste blood" they are more likely to kill the next mate, so they no longer get a chance to. I try to give them larger tanks, at least a 20 gallon for a pair, preferably larger so I can leave the fry in longer. Single breeders can be put in 10 gallon tanks, or one per larger tank of some compatible community of fish.

Will they all get along? It could happen, it probably will happen for a while, but do you feel like taking a chance?