Forum Replies Created
-
Posts
-
Everything has been said already and I can only join previous speakers and say thank you to the organizers!
And I am glad that the Paro-distribution/journeys over the seas were successful!Hi Jootje,
I don’t exactly remember at the moment.. some days? If you can watch the eggs you will see that the fry leaves them and hangs as white little drops from the top. When they coulor dark after two or three more days, they soon will begin to swim free …Thank you Peter for your long answer!
Yes, I will train your method! I have already read about that, but I couldn’t really understand how it should work, now you have described the process very precisely so I think I understand!Now I have a question concerning vinegar ales: how do you take them out of their glass to feed them? Is it necessary to clean them from vinegar? And if yes, how do you do this (one tip in the www. was to pour them through a coffee filter, most of them would be sieved out by the filter….
Hi Jonette!
About black mosquito larvaes I didn’t hear something like that. It is said about the red ones I guess. And it is a difference if you breed them yourselves or if you buy them in a shop from an unknown breeder. I had just bought white ones for my Spaerichtys. They are too big for my Paros.The rolls are no leaves, but made from bark. I got once some peaces of barks, but I think it is not the same as leaves…
There should be more than one source for catappa leaves in Netherlands than one very expensive? The leaves last about three weeks in the tanks … I get two packs with 12 xl leaves if I go once in two or three months to my aquaristic shop in Freiburg. The pack costs 6,99, from “Hobby”. They have a bit different reddish/yellow/orange colors, so I guess they have been picked at the right time.
Hi Jonette!
Concerning infections by Mosquitos I never heard here in the south of Germany about that and we have always had many of these little animals. I react with rather heavy itching swellings if they bite me, but it doesn’t happen so often and when I see how my Paros love that food I can stand it for them ;-).Whe have actually here a journalistic “blow up” about Tiger-Mosquitos from Asia which come from south of Europe here by trucks and cars. It is said that they would bring diseases. But they just bring the diseases from the men they had bitten before and they have no eternal live.
And their offspring – if they manage to breed here because of the climate change – can only bite middle European people and get their not so heavy infections…Black mosquito larvaes are best food if from the own garden or balcony in water without fish!
At the beginning of my live with Paros I was also very anxious about catching living food. I collect it just in my own garden or from the balcony. My dragonfly larvaes I got with bought plants.
This spring I tried to get black mosquito larvaes in a still water in the forest, as Bernd recommended, and there the first two insects I caught were dragonfly larvaes … so I stopped that project 😉 but in my “homebread” mosquito larvaes water I found never a dragonfly larvae, they are too far away from any bigger water were dragonflies live.Microworms are fine, but containing high amount of grease, so it is not ideal as an everyday food for adult fish…
Hi Jonette, and what do you think about trying with black mosquito larvaes?
what about microworms? perhaps some aquaristic fan or shop has some in your surrounding???
And very small mosquito larvaes? Somewhere in someones garden???
