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Hello Arno,
Some time ago I had also hydra, I got some Flubenol from Bernd Bussler, I needed just a “Messerspitze” (a pinch) in each tank. My shrimps and my snails stayed o.k. ! (the fish of course too) and all Hydras vanished at once! Perhaps it could harm the eggs of your phoenicurus, but I guess that mine were also already breeding, when I used the Flubenol …@ Bernd: I have my 1.2 P. phoenicurus in these water parameter: EC 24 (after water change) – 35(before water change) , pH 4,2 – 5.2, dKH <1, temperature 26°C, after water change 24°C. Tank size is 25x40x25cm.
pH mostly ca. 4,7,
@Arno: very fine! And you have found the eggs! Will you breed the larves outside the parents tank?Now the lady who courts the young prince:
oh … 😳 who finds written mistakes can keep them …. :blush:
and here again:
Three guys in interaction – there are now two male more in the parents tank than I planned – the little prince was hidden and I guess that I had mistaken a male for a female ….
And the fourth guy is again camping … this photos are not very sharp, I know, but they tell a story … 😉
Some new photos:
This is the oldest and biggest male:
This one has hidden till he became a beautiful little prince, and is now heavily courted by an adult female, he still is a bit shy 😉
Now it works again – I have a led stripe on the bucket, and this time also duckweed …
I think it is o.k. when I have to buy a new starting culture of moinas every 6 months …
They need a bit more attention as micro worms and naupliae .. but I think they are a good snack for our fish …I have my 1.2 P. phoenicurus in these water parameter: EC 24 – 35 , pH 4,2 – 5.2, dKH <1, temperature 26°C, after water change 24°C. Tank size is 25x40x25cm.
Elder cones, beech leaves, catappa leaves, moorkien root, swimming plants, java moss, a bit substrate on the ground, some caves.
Filter is a small rucksack filter.I prepare the water with peat granules and a small osmosis plant.
I feed generously, now in winter with naupliae, white mosquito larvaes, moina, micro worms, marine copepodes, water flea.
I do my water changes every week, 50%.I have now moved 21 young phoenicurus in a bigger tank (54l), similar set up as their parents tank. Just the filter is different, a HMF (foam filter and water bubbles).
There are still left at least 4 other juvenile in the parents tank, which I wasn't able to catch till now They are really very shy and champions in hiding.
My young linkei begin to behave like swarm fish 🙂 .
Perhaps I got my phoenicurus earlier than most of you, I already got them on 12th of september. I asked immediately some days after it was anounced here in the forum at aquarium dietzenbach, if they could send 1.2 animals to my aquaristic shop in Freiburg. And the tank was running since about three month that time, I planned to breed there caridina simoni, but the 10 animals vanished (to low pH I think). So the tank was ready for the phoenicurus to settle down...
Hello Maurice, hello Pavel,
Yes, Peter answered that to my similar question in the thread “distribution”. That’s good, because the distribution is anyway not so easy task!Till now I can count about 12 – 15 young phoenicurus in different sizes, the new 64l juvenile tank is nearly ready to become inhabited, the space becomes to be a little bit limited in the parents tank (36l) … and I guess new fish baby have more change to grow up when there are not so many youngsters nearby …
After Christmas I will take again some photos!I have always sand or some other rather fine ground material in my tanks, but not much – about 1/2 or 1 cm deep. I had never plants for decoration, but when they grow they can’t be so bad for the tanks biology …
The ground material also works as a filter – and does a bit of a self cleaning work, so that the ground don’t has to be cleaned all the time …
I test it before I use it – I fill a little amount in a glass with osmosis water and measure after some days if there is any Calcium. If not – good for the tank.I have now four Paro tanks (36, 54 and 65 l) and the inhabitant rate is increasing 😛 so they like some plant structures I guess , even if it are just the roots of swimming Ceratopteris. My Valniseria also has adapted very well in the low pH tanks.
