Ready to start

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Hello everybody,

I am pleased to announce that my tank now is ready to accomodate its new residents :cheer:

It is a 40x25x25 tank, filled with a lot of wood and beech leaves, java fern, anubia, some salvinia and riccia moss floating on the surface. I will pick up the new residents – 2 young couples of P. nagyi – at Schwerte, germany, on monday and I hope the fishes will grew up well.

[Mike Hu]

Hi Nathea,

That looks great. Best of luck with your fish.

It looks like there are lots of hiding places. I have 6 young fish I rescued from the LFS in a 30l nano and I sometimes don’t see them at all. However I guess you’re trying to breed them.

Look forward to pics of your fish. I will upload some pics of my tank as soon as I get some decent images.

[Marcin Chyla]

Hello, very nice tank ! In that kind of aqua You will for sure find young paros after some time 🙂 Please keep us informed!

[Nicolas BUISSON]

Waaw !!! :woohoo: Beautiful tank ! 😉

What paros species do you chose ?

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Thanks for your compliments!

I didn’t have any preferences and so I have been chosen P. nagyi because an experienced breeder and member of our Paro Project lives at my region (only 100 km away). He offered me to buy 2 young couples and I am happy to get them.

In the afternoon, when I am back home with the paros, I will try to take some snapshots of them because I suppose not to see them very often. Indeed there are lots and lots of hiding places.

I’ll keep you informed!

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Here you can see the first pictures of my new friends:

This is one of the juvenile males:

This one is the second smallest fish (Maybe a male too? We will see):

And a snapshot after setting them free, called “I am a motionless leaf only, you can’t see me”

[Bill Little]

Sylvia — great images of your new “children” I hope you have great success with them

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Hello everybody,

I have to tell you the latest news about my new friends:

After letting them swim the paros were hiding behind leafs and between the roots of the floating plants, like I expected. But unexpectedly I saw the first 2 of them swimming free only 5 hours later! They were using the whole tank, inspecting the wood and the plants, tasting the artemia nauplies and looking at the scene outside of their tank. And after 7 hours I could see them all – not very shy and reserved, but curious.

I am really pleased about that. Seems like the water conditions are ok and the tank is well enough planted.

[Nicolas BUISSON]

Very good news, I am very happy for you, good luck 😉

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Hello everyone,

some good and one bad news from my little friends: 1 week before I found one of my male dead suddenly in the morning. On the evening before all fishes seemed to be healthy and active, there was no sign of illness. :unsure:

Now the three are alone but very agile. They swim all around the tank and aren’t really shy. They hide only if I move too quick in the front of the tank. And one of the males started its courtship dances:

This seems to be a nice female one, doesn’t it?

Here you can take a look at the third paro. At the moment I am not sure, if it is a male or female one. Its colours are as striped as the female, the fins are mostly transparent, but with a lot of coloured spots in it. And I guess the dorsale is more long and sharp than the dorsale of the female.

Sorry about the bad quality of the picture, next time the glass plates will be cleaned.

[Patrick Guhmann]

Hello Sylvia,

is the dark substrate on the ground Lava granulate?

Greetings
Patrick

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Yes, it is. I had some lava stones and smashed it into small crumbs because my substrate (sand) has been too light.

[Peter Finke]

A very conveniant gravel is http://www.aquaclay.de/
Sylvia’s licorice are P. nagyi from the terra typica near Kuantan. There are other forms of nagyi which slightly differ from this “classical” form, especially the form from the region around the town Cherating.

[Steffens, Sylvia]

Hello everybody,

let me proudly present the little new resident of my parosphromenus tank:

The juvenile has a length of about 1 cm (maybe a bit smaller) and I was astonished about its dark colour.

Best regards,
Sylvia

[Marcin Chyla]

Hello, Congratulations!!! I’m not that lucky – when I changed layout in my aquarium ( I caught all fishes, I removed all woods and leaves and even sand )I didn’t found any of young paros , but I saw eggs many times during 1.5 year… I finally breed them in seperate aquarium.
Maybe You will find more…:)I heard that P. nagyi is a bit difficult species to breed -Congratulations!!!

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