Hi!
I’m a french member of the CIL, too, and I have young (subadults) P. linkei in excess. I am living in northern France. Where are you?
I don’t think you can keep your daphnees and moskitos breeding going on in winter, so, you must find another solution for this time.
You can’t not be satisfied with a good water now, you must have a regular water supply of the same quality, and hartness must be relevant, too, it’s the more important and difficult. Osmosis-water from the pet-shops is’nt good enough, with exception, I mess always more than 50 microsiemens with it. You can only mess very low harness with an electronic device ph-meter, und you have to rework pet-shop water or to have your own device for making good water, or becoming good rainwater.
That and that and that make money to spend, and always caring. Paro don’t forgive carelessness, or carelessness don’t spare paros
You can’t keep other fish species with paros, so long you will have them breeding, what is a must for paros aquaristen!
If you come in the CIL meeting in Blois in september, we could meet there. If not, perhaps are people coming who are next your hometown.
If you can convince me before september that you can do it right, and you be an aquarist-born genius, you can have paros from me. I began in the age of 13.but needed many years to learn.
First breeding colisa lalia with 14. Only one youngfish …
I have learned by experience, by reading and from older club-members which were very good and knew to share what they knew. First thing I learned was that this or that species was too difficult, and that I must wait before having responsbly it in my tank
First, how long have you experience , and with what sort of fishes?
Do you wrigt english yourself?
We can speak french at my private mail: hugues.vanbesien@yahoo.fr
with kind regards
Hugues