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Oh .. I have a bowl with about half a liter water and old nettles … And when the water smells nice, the Mosquitos come to lay their eggships there … And when the larves are there, I catch them with a nauplii filter, wash them under running water and feed them …
Hallo,
I’ve another question: if I don’t have to throw away my black mosquito larves … How often do you change the water and the plants? Never, every week …? Because of the bacterias ….Hallo Helene,
I will see what will do the last three of them … I am astonished that my wild fang selatanensis would be more easy than the F1 osphromenoides ….
If they will disappear one after another, there will be left place for another Paro tank … :unsure:
Hallo!
Now I have again a dead Spaerichtys osphromenoides (F1 I think), yesterday I fed black mosquito larves, this time they were still very small ….
Perhaps it was the now dead one who was very greedy for them …..And my Spaerichtys selatanensis (wild fang I think) eat everything and I just had one mobbing dead at the beginning …
But I´m thinking about no longer try with the black mosquitos ..
Oh oh …
Hallo Martin!
Since two days I´ve found no more. I sent the last one to a dragonfly specialist from the nature museum Wiesbaden.
He will try to get it grown up to tell, if its the first german/middleeuropean Larve, he got for his project since some years ;-).
Before I will get my Paros, I will empty the tank and look if I´ll find any dragonfly larve any more.
But there are still left caridina simoni, one having eggs, I saw yesterday, so that will be also a sign, that the enemies have gone out…
Hallo,
My water is clear again.And there wasn’t a bacterial problem, I ve had just 10*2 KBE/ml, I think the UV Clearer does its work!
Hi, Stefanie,
With net I don’t manage …
But I’ve already caught 10 of them, means every larve I ve seen.Now I’m recherching if they really are German, or if they are tropic.
I fear, they already didn’t left many of my new Caridina simoni …I’ve contacted an expert and I will send him two of the larves.
Hallo!
I fed just black mosquito larves from my balkony (out of a water bowl with nettles ..)
I don´t go myself outside catching live food. I also doesnt feed commercial live food…I got out now already 6 of them, I hang on about the tank every free time with a magnifying glass ..
The good news is that they can easily be caught with a water hose (Wasserschlauch, Wasserwechselschlauch)…
And I think they are new born, because they are still not bigger than my shrimps …
Oh oh ….
I hope I manage to find them out within the next two weeks …
There will be left not so much caridina simoni, I fear …But I see no other way – I need the plants and the root, I guess, if I throw them away and the tank, I have nothing left to let the Paros feel comfortable and if I by them new, the same play could start again …
I bought it. And its from a german shop and comes from a german moor. They put it in a small river an send it wet.
But It could have been also from new plant, the plants are very good, but last time, some years ago I got them with bubble snails 😉
Hallo Helene,
Yes now I will be more cautious!
But it always really is difficult to learn the reason why a fish dies.
In my Spaerichtys selatanensis tank I had about ten Boraras brigittae.
And I wondered why the became fewer and fewer ….
Yesterday evening I noticed that one Borara in a good vagabond mood tried to swim up the bypass of my UV Clearer, against the water stream .. I just managed to let him slip again in the tank. And I made a filter sponge on the tube …. I think now I know where five of them had gone ….Hallo Helene,
I must have got them with my new plants or with the moor root (Moorkienwurzel) in my new Paro tank, still just inhabitated by Caridina simoni.
And here I still don’t feed live food, just from time to time some shrimp granules. So I will in future not only look how many shrimps come to eat, but also if there is left one of the small dragons …
