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B) I don’t know much about that plants, if they don’t have poisoning substances which they give into the water … :whistle: perhaps they could catch mosquitos when the Paros don’t eat all the mosquito larvaes and puppies?
But I think, Paros just need some swimming plants on the water surface for shelter and some java moss as hiding place for offspring…
Hi!
The best organic material are nettles. Not too much in a small bucket.
I would never ! take all the stuff through a net, you will get too much rubbish with.
No, the mosquito larvaes need to breath air, therefore they come to the water surface. I take a bucket with fresh water with me and an anthemia sieve. When I see the larvaes hanging under the water surface, I make a quick movement with the sieve through the water at the surface. Then I get them and put them in the fresh water bucket.
Than I wait a moment for the remaining larvaes in the “old water balcony bucket” to come again to the surface and the same procedure again.
When I have caught enough for the moment, I take the fresh water bucket to the bathroom and pour the water through the sieve. Than I wash the larves under the moving water in the sieve. Then I feed them to my fish.Hi!
The idea is good, but our tanks are no free floating rivers …. So I don’t see a real context between rain season and our water changes …
Our frequent water changes have just the job to reduce the germ pressure in the tanks.My Paros feel that it is breeding season when they get again their black mosquito larvaes in spring!
Hi Alex!
I guess microsiemens should continue to go down on about 20 … Do you have material for humid acids in the tank? …. If the eggs don’t stick, the water parameters still are not suitable.Perhaps they had too cold? Some time the water had “room temperature ” 21-22*C. Now I give them again 24-25 *C and they all look much better ….
Thank you all for your answers!
To Helene: the water color changes from time to time a bit. And I had much light on to make the photos. I use Deepin Peats black water recipe. If I have suck the elder cones too long, the water is so dark I nearly don’t see anything, and impossible to make good photos.To Peter: I observe the fish since about two weeks. No changes.
To Bill: Thank you for your very good photo! No, this way no one of the fish look like. I had some time ago fish which looked like that, I wrote about it in the forum (phoenicurus) and I was able to save/heal them all, even in a late stage with spirohexol JBL in the liquid form (I couldn’t get here the powder). And I used it in the awareness that it was written, it would not help. But it did.
I feed my Paros daily when I am at home, but not to much, and mostly one fasting day a week.
Offspring three times a day.My adult Linkei offspring which live together in a 96 l tank, but nevertheless very busy with impress and to chase each other, seem to be always hungry. They nearly enter the sieve with food when I put it in the tank. Not shy at all …
My Phoenicurus breeding pairs and my Ornaticauda don’t move much and only move to the front glass if there are black mosquito larvaes swimming around.
I have now these in my garden: small Eristalinae and Ephemeroptera also. Some bloodworms too. Just the black mosquito larvaes are gone out now.
Good speech Maurice!
And as for the filters: I think, as Peter Finke says in the Paro Book, for beginners a filter is not wrong, for example concerning the mechanical job it does.
If you don’t have very clean tanks, means with leaves and alder cones and wood and if the nauplii for example didn’t sort out well from the cysts, a mechanical filter is a good thing to have even if the bacteria work is minimized..Hello Peter, that’s a problem in our already rather numerous threads: “I wrote this several times already….”….. Sometimes I remember, that someone had written already very good information about a subject, but can’t find it again … So I will now begin to paste and copy your post in my documents about “Paros” …. So I did already also with Pawels blackwater recipe …
If you read the actual threads, you think, “that’s very precisely worked out, I will remember it” ….. But some weeks later ……Me too of course, I’m also getting the German newsletter but this news still didn’t arrive.
I already was wondering if we could take share in those actions here in the forum too!I use this LED:
Don’t know why the middle photo is upside down … Mine on computer is right …
Sorry for the strange photos, don’t know what happened, will correct them via PC (now tablet) when I will be back in two weeks from my pupils excange with Bierun in Poland.
ps. – I have edited the images 😉 .. Helene
