New Food

1. The pair looks like a pair ready fpr spawning. Place the cave so that you could have a conveniant look into it, using a small torch. The eggs will be fixed to (if there are some, already) the ceiling of the cave if the water is (nearly) free of Calcium. Our best breeders place all their caves in the middle of the small tank containing the breeding pair just two inches behind the front glass with the opening to the front.
2. Daphnia are a good additional food but the fish will not get ready to spawn if they are fed only Daphnia. You mixture is good.
3. Moina are very good, go ahead with them. Sometimes their continuous cultures proves to be a bit tricky. They like fresh baker’s yeast and water really cloudy from that. quite different than Daphnia. No aeration. Mine do best in small shallow vessels.
3. There are breeders who take Cyclops to be the best food at all. But I don’t think they could be grown artificially; they must be caught in ponds in nature.
4. Brine shrimp are good in all stages; even with baby brine shrimp adult Paros could be brought to be ready for spawning. Not very good is to feed baby brine shrimp that are some days old without being fed themselves. They are practically “empty”, of nearly no nourish value at all. I feed them nevertheless, but not as main food.
5. Gammarus (not Grammarus) are too big for most Paros; but Gammarus-offspring could be very good indeed.
6. If you have young other shrimps, they are mostly very good; e.g. Caridina parvidentata.