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one day I will try Arnos tanks!
Now I use since quite some time Artemio and the four sieves: 0,240 mm, 0,200mm, 0,150mm and 0,100mm.
The best results I find when I empty the Artemio after about 24 hours.
Then the sieve method works quite well.When I wait 36 hours, the naupliae begin to grow as large as the eggs and are difficult to be separated with the sieves.
After several sieving passes in the 0,100 mm sieve are found sometimes very small naupliae. Astonishing is that during the first sieve pass I find in the 0,100 mm sieve eggs or parts of eggs.
So my sieving method isn’t ideal, but works quite good.
And I guess, because not many people are looking at the naupliae with magnifying glass, generations of Paros have survived with getting also athemia eggs as food….Hello Helene,
yes so I will do and try then with macro lens! 😉
But I think I will not use flash light and lightning the tank, I like the hidden Paros (I like also the camping Paros :woohoo: ) in their dark tanks.
And my friend, who has seen the fine colored photos in the Paro book (look, now I will get nice colored new fish :whistle: 😉 😛 ) says that those colored photos are a bluff 👿 :cheer: B)Hallo Herve,
can’t say. I got them the ninth of September via my fish org from Aquarium Dietzenbach sent to my aquaristic shop “Unter Wasser Freiburg”. I got them in the original fish bag from the transport.
I was also already thinking of why my male don’t has a red band on its fins like Helenes one.Perhaps the colors are different because of photo technic and I don’t use flash light. About the shape I can’t tell, just they are slimmer than my linkei.
Hi, here I try now again to load up my new photos of my phoenicurus offspring and their parents, this morning I tried to do so, but all 7 pictures at once, I think that was too much for the system.
Hello!
I have again made an interesting observation – but perhaps it is just alder cone with sand and Bryozoa … the little Paros seem to like it for eating ….
Here you see:
Here three photos of my linkei babies, they are not really shy. (the offspring of the phoenicurus are still as shy as the parents … )
Its amazing how quick the offspring grow!
The eldest one(s) will soon confuse me looking if they are the young or the adults …They will soon move in my new linkei offspring tank, than I can make my personal census 😉 for I don’t like to disturb my fish, I am never shure how many they real are … 😉 and Paros are specialists in hiding … 😉 (my Spaerichtys selatanensis are building each day a queue so that I can count all eight of them … couldn’t the Paros learn that too? 😛 :silly: )
Ah, o.k. that´s interesting. So I will leave the pair in the small tank.
For the offspring are fine, I will leave them also. The linkei seem to be well in their parents tank till now too.
Soon the new tank will be ready for them (the young linkei). So I will do for the phoenicurus too.
And when the spawning pair will stop to have offspring, I can put them in the bigger tank and try a new pair.But I saw, that even in my small and not so “old” tank their was much mulm where I think the offspring got infusoria.
Also my linkei seem to grow quick. I had just the five who where behind the math filter in a breeding tank (the rucksack tank) and four of them survived and I put them again back into the parents tank.Now I got some photos of the pair – and found minimum two offspring in different size, but my camera couldn’t find them …
And I found I had tried to invent the wheel again – I can see now that I have the same constellation of the tank found today, as the linkei tank.
The filter in the back, so that the food floats in the front and the fish therefore too … :side: :whistle:By the way – my male don’t has so red stripes on the fins as the one Helene has posted …
Upps … :woohoo: :whistle: 😛 forget my question upside :whistle: ….
The answer now seems to me: never change a running system :whistle:
I wanted finally impatient to see if my three phoenicurus still all are alive … and I found more live than I expected (also fever live, because I didn’t see all the adults) but I think you suspect already what I found – the first offspring :whistle: where one is can be more …
Now I turned the 40x25x25 cm tank with the 25×25 side front forward as often recommended to be able to see the shy fish the more, perhaps because they feel they have a chance to escape in the background …
And the big tank 60x40x30 (and another planned one) will be then for the offspring. The one soon ready run for the offspring the linkei which are already becoming rather numerous …..
I will try to make photos, but for better photos I must wait for christmas ( I have wished a macro for my camera :whistle: )
Hi, mine also are still not breeding because too young.
I´m now thinking if I shall leave the three phoenicurus (which I can´t see all three at the same time) in the small tank (40x25x25) or if they would be better in my new made tank 40×30 (front ) and 60 cm back/deep with a diversity of caves (so they won’t have to do camping 😉 ) or if I shall wait till they begin to spawn in some weeks or months and move the young linkei in the bigger tank to leave the parents with their baby offspring. What do you think?
Hello jalmj,
I think the white structure is not fungus, but, as some other people here said, Bryozoa. They even are wandering from place to place, as described in the www. at several sites 😉Hello!
the question above has answered itself by time …
Behind the math filter material with the big holes I found fife baby Paros (the linkei).
They didn’t look starved, but of course I have caught them and put them in a breeding tank.
And I changed the foam math by a math with smaller holes, which I already had prepared for the new tank, which still isn´t delivered….Hello!
Now I came back from one week vacation – I had thought there would be big trouble – because my fish sitter wasn’t able to care for the naupliae – he didn’t want to do what I told him, he tried to be creative but didn’t understand right ….But all my Paros are in a good condition – even the babies… I see one in the tank with the parents, and – that was a little bit trouble – I found five of them back the math filter ….
So I took them out in a rucksack breeding tank (the water comes by a bubble pump from the parents tank into the breeding tank and goes out like a little waterfall in the parents tank) to feed them well. But all don’t look as if they had starved … perhaps the fish sitter was paniced more than necessary or in a “used” tank is enough mini-living food to breed offspring (even behind the filter math, I just can’t believe it!)…..And the youngs seem to grow rather quick … :S :side: :unsure:
