The
PAROSPHROMENUS PROJECT

The
PAROSPHROMENUS
PROJECT

New paros at my home

#5118
helene schoubye
Keymaster

😉 Without a doubt a male !

Thats good news, it really is annoying when it sometimes happen that you end up with only one sex. I have tried it with some species, as I think I have written earlier somewhere, – but that has always been males only. And for this reason I have become really careful now when / if bying fish in stores.
Because many times you also are unable to get more fish that with certainty is the same species, so its really an unfortunate situation if theres only one sex.
Now for sure you have a male – and I would think more females, – but then it would be really good if they got offspring.
At some point I found some p.nagyi in my shop, wildcaught, and I had to buy some. I got back with at least 12, – two females. They developed a lot of problems, took long time before they ‘thrived’, so I lost so many of them untill in the end all I had left was one pair. They fortunately spawned and had two offsprings. Two males. Then the old male died. Now I had the mother and two sons.
I really wanted to keep this species, so I was hoping … and luckily, now, I still have the mother, the two sons + 3 new offsprings. And I really hope one or more will be females, – then there might be a chance of keeping on having this species in my tanks.

I congratulate you with the fact that you do obviously have at least one pair. Which species is still to me something which will be for a later point to determine.