Hello,
I have another question to Günter Kopic article. He says: Ideally, you should buy six to eight half-grown juveniles and let them mature together.
Assuming both sexes are present, loose pairs will
form at the onset of sexual maturity.I have a group of 9 paros growing together in 50×35 cm base tank. I have one exceptionally beautiful male and one quite big and nice female within the group. Even though they are probably not fully mature yet (the females do not seem to produce eggs yet), I was thinking about separating these two animals and forcing them to form a pair as from my +2 decades of ornamental fish breeding experience these look like the ones I should go with to produce bigger clutches and the most beautiful further generations. I also would like to separate the male as he seems to be bossing other males at least to the extend that they are much paler when he shows around and its seems like there is very little chance they would try to breed as long as the dominant male is in the tank. Does anyone have experience with housing a group of adults in such a tank? From my observation so far it seems like there is very little hierarchy within the group below these two specimens. Everyone is just keeping a little space for himself and if they meet each other even the females are able to chase away other smaller animals no matter what gender they are. So should I just wait untill (or if) they start spawning and separate formed pairs, or separate the most promising couple and let develop another dominant male in the group tank and go on? Thanks for the answers. https://www.parosphromenus-project.org/media/kunena/emoticons/cheerful.png
