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‘ello all! Still trying to devise my parosphromenus plans and a potential hiccup has arose. One weekend every month I go to my mother’s and thus would not be able to tend the brine shrimp hatchery that would feed my planned licorice gouramis. Will licorice gouramis do fine without food for 2 days assuming they are not fry?
They will do fine for two weeks without feeding too, if necessary.
Paros last extremely long for some reason. I think they find small organisms in their tank. I have a pair which do not get skinnier, even though I haven’t fed them for weeks now. (I don’t recommend this with rare species! These particular fish are a common form)Oh, thank you for the quick reply! On a somewhat unrelated note, how thick can the leaf litter on the bottom of a parosphromenus tank be? Would several inches be too much?
Depends on your tank’s height. The layer can be as thick as you want it to be, as long as there is enough space left for the fish to live.
By forum standards I am getting very rapid replies…thank you.
One last question. I am planning on keeping the gourami in a 20 gallon high tank, occasionally moving a pair of the fish to a five gallon to breed them. Would that setup work?
That would probably work, although it is unnecessary to remove them from the small tank. Most breeders keep and breed their fish in the same small tank.
By the way, most here are German, Dutch or other non-‘Muricans, so use of the metric system is preferred!
OK. To put my plans in more metric terms, the main tank will be a 75.7 litre tank with dimensions of 60.72L * 30.36w * 40.48H. There would be a layer of leaf litter on the tank floor somewhere between 2.5 and 7.5 cm in depth: the tank would have ceratopteris, crytocorene, likely taxiphyllum and microsorum, likely some tree branches, and perhaps a few small pots for caves. Occasionally a pair would be moved to a 18.9 litre tank to spawn, since the main tank would have multiple parosphromenus pairs: the spawning tank would have a considerably thinner layer of leaves and no decorations other than a opt or two and perhaps some ceratopteris to help maintain water quality. Finally, a plastic container would be used to store the acidic water for the tank: the nitrogen would be removed from this water by the plants (again likely ceratopteris) so as to allow the water to be reused, reducing potentially unreliable reliance on rainwater.
I would say, move those Cryptos and Taxiphyllum to the small tank and make it a permanent paro-tank. In the menu on the left of the page you can find a guide to setting up such a tank.
What species are you planning to keep? There are slight differences in size, behaviour, and tolerance, so for giving accurate tank-setup descriptions it would help if you’d mind the species in question.
I am simply planning on keeping one of the easier species such as filamentosus or linkei. Now why isn’t linkei referred to as a pearl licorice gourami…?
The reason that the smaller tank cannot be set up permanently because it is a quarentine tank: I also will (within a few days at most) have a breeding colony of endlers in a 29 gallon, and thus that tank will be needed to house any ill fish that arise. My sister, hwo also owns several tanks, is currently using it for a pair of ill Xiphophorus hellerii in the tank right now.
Ah, ok. Then your idea sounds good.
Fortunately, those species are not only easy, but also very beautiful!
You could refer to it as you want, but linkei is a lot easier (and scientifically correct!) than pearl licorice gourami. It seems a bit useless to make up a new name while there is already a perfectly good one around…
Hello, You could keep them ( 2-3 pairs..) in this 70 L tank without moving them in to a special breeding tank – in the case of many dark places, Young will raise in this tank without Your help 🙂 – I have mine 3 pairs of P.linkei in a 60 L tank and 7 pcs of 1cm young apperaed allready ( I have them since may this year):)
Hello yes, but there are many dark places in my aquarium (see picture) I didn’t see my fishes for weeks – but offspring were visible near “front” glass. Now I seperated the young and wait for another 🙂 The tank is 1m long but as you can see – water level is much lower then 30 cm (tank high). Greetings!
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