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Hello,
I am a new member from Belgium. I requred 5 parophromenus linkei true a contact of this site. Here are some pictures of my tank setup.
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I have been bitten by the paro virus and I would like to require some other species in the future. But first I will try to bread the linkei’s I have got. It shoul be one couple and their three offspring. For the moment they are all living toghether in a 50l tank. As soon as one of the 20l tanks is available I will seperate the parents for a spawning attampt.
Hello Frederik.
Nice to see you have got some fish and that you want to breed the linkei’s.
I would like to say something to the set up though, – and I don’t mean to start out being ‘critical’ 🙂 but …. when I see the photos I can see that there are a few other species in there and although they may come from around the same kind of areas, – they are very different in their requirements.
The little hillstream loach is such a lover of moving waters, in fact as far as I remember from when I once had them, they really depend on it because of the content of oxygen in moving water.
And the paros prefer still or if anything just very very slow moving water.
Hill stream loaches and paros are really not good company :huh:
I just had to mention that, – but its very good that you are going to separate them into a breeding tank, that will be a lot better.Wellcome on this forum Frederik!
I’m glad to read that you plan to separate the parents in order to get offspring. It’s a good decision to expand that small linkei family, so I wish you much success.The sewellia’s are indeed not the most suitable fish to keep with paro’s. There are 2 sewellia’s in the tank, these are offspring of only 2-3cm long. They have been there for some time and I just do not have the space to move them. Sewellia’s live in hillstream biotope. When in spring the meltwater causes the rivers to expand and flood other areas, the sewellia’s move to still waters to lay their eggs. I agree that they need oxygen, every fish needs oxygen. I have been debating this numourus times on other forums. The paro tank has quite still water and the sewellia’s will be moved to a tank more suitable as soon as I can determen the sex.
In the tank of the paro’s there are also a lot of shrimp, I believe these shrimp do live in the same biotope as the paro’s. And I hope these shrimp can be an additinal food source for the paro’s. Now I feed them black mosquito larve and Daphnia pulex or moina.Thats good to hear, then 🙂 … I couldnt see that they were small. I was just a bit surprised to see that different fish together.
I wont pretend to know a lot about the sewellias 🙂 it sounds like you know them much better. I just know that I had some at some time, and I wasnt paying enough attention to their different needs regarding flow of water.
So I didnt want to start a discussion for sure, – and I am glad to hear they arent supposed to stay.The shrimps, yes for sure live in same biotope 🙂
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In the tank of the paro’s there are also a lot of shrimp, I believe these shrimp do live in the same biotope as the paro’s. And I hope these shrimp can be an additinal food source for the paro’s. [/quote]Welcome to the forum, Frederik!
What water values do you have in your tank? I tried to keep shrimp in my paro tanks and made the experience that they only survive at pH-levels above 5,0. As soon as my pH-level was around 4,5 the shrimp vanished.
The plants in your tank give me the impression that your pH is not that low …………Hello,
The shrimp are Neocaridina heteropoda “wild”
The PH level is 6.1-6.2 the paro’s I have were kept at an even higer value. For breading I will try to lower the PH to 5.2
Most plants have already died, like most of the crypto’s but the floating palnts and the ferns are doing well.Ha Maurice,
Jup, it is a small world. Ik geloof toch dat we hier moeten zitten om nakweekjes van deze mooie soorten te bemachtigen. Ik denk trouwens ook dat er nog maar weinig aquariumforums overblijven waar ik niet op zit 😀
(!) Mind that we communicate with friends in more than 35 states in the world on all continents. Please use English as your language for communication.
The youngster I had are all grown up now. The tree youngsters were 3 males. So I mannaged to trade 2 for a female. That meens I have two pears now. I have put them in a 20l breeding tank. They have a coconut and a ceramic flowering pot for nesting area. The PH is lowered to abou 6.0 at this moment. I think I need to go a little lower. But I will take some time to do this. My source of black mosquito larve is vanishing and the mosquito larve I catch now are to big for the paro’s. They have daphnia on the menu now, will daphnia alone be suffisient for breeding them ?
Which other food source would you recomand me to use ?
This is the tank setup, both are similar. I am still trying to take a better picture of the pairs. The first is surely a pair, butt with the second I still have doubts.
You can see one of them, in the left corner underneath the filter. The temperature is 26°C is this ok for breeding, or does it need to be even higer ?
Any comments are welcome, I would realy like to do wat it takes for breeding them now.
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