[Joshua Morgan]

‘ello again! Long time since any updates…my continued frustration with the paroes eventually moved me to move them to a 5 gallon with their plants and convert their 10 gallon to a heavily planted tank, thinking I would never succeed in breeding them or even getting the male to court again (he had stopped doing that a while before this). However, I have since started feeding grindals in addition to BBS and have been more careful with not unintentionally increasing the hardness by other means, and for most of the past 2 weeks the male has been diligently trying to court the females (leading me to the conclusion I was not feeding them enough to encourage spawning). Anyhow, I have not seen the male now for several days…we just had a major hot spell up here that also noticeably warmed the tank, and I have a suspicion he may finally have succeeded in spawning. I have my fingers crossed, anyway 🙂 after all the effort I have put towards these fish, it would be nice if they actually spawned.