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Hello Bill,
sorry – that happens when Germans want to talk english … :S B)
Google translator told me that word when I wanted the latin word “Inventur” to get translated :whistle: :pinch: … I wanted to say, that I emptied the tank from things where the fish could hide to be able to count how many fish were swimming inside ….
Sorry. Can you tell me the correct word for that? Than I will correct my post B)It seems sometimes happen to me to find funny words, I was the one with the “snakes” in the tank (just a word for snails) :side: :silly: 😳
Hi Rafael!
That are fine news!
The linkei eggs develop very quick – soon you will see the larves growing black – and then soon they will swim. It is just a question of about a week? You can find it in the paro book – I can’t remember numbers very good …. ;-).And then the mini Paros will vanish for weeks and weeks between the leaves before you will see them again 👿 :whistle: really surprising small fish, our Paros! :silly:
To Bernd:
vielleicht waren Rafaels “Mädels” einfach so in Stimmung, durch den großen Wasserwechsel und das Umräumen?
Das sie dann, wie Rafael beschreibt, alle Höhlen abgesucht haben, spricht ja auch dafür, dass sie ein Männchen suchen…welches ja wohl wirklich nicht mehr da ist.
Als ich die jungen linkes umgesetzt habe, dachte ich auch erst, oh je, wie kann ich die unterscheiden? Aber es dauerte nicht lange, da war der Geschlechtsunterschied deutlich zu sehen. Werde schauen, dass ich jetzt für Rafael ein ganz dunkles Männchen rausgefischt bekomme, so wie das größere der beiden Männchen, die ich von Dir bekommen habe! 😉In English:
Perhaps Rafaels “girls” have been so much in “the mood” after that big water change and change of environment?
And that they have been looking together in every cave, seems to me as if they were looking where the male is, who has obviously vanishes someway …When I set my linkei offspring in their new tank I was worrying if I would ever be able to differ the sexes. But soon it became obvious.
Hi Rafael,
the Paros (specially linkei) are nice guys, till now I didn’t see them fight ernestly. They make nice
Impressions on each other with showing their beautiful fins, but don’t hurt each other.
So you must not worry!Hi Helene,
that may be right when the linkei male is still rather young, perhaps even if it is subdominant.
But I searched for Rafael an older one, with nice blue colors, the First time.
Now I see one male in my tank which is rather dark colored, I guess, very dominant and ready to court. I will try to find him to get him out of the tank for Rafael next weekend…Hi Rafael,
seems to me like they are looking if there is somewhere in a cave a male waiting for them … They seem to be very eager to make babies …
😉Hi Rafael!
If that are eggs, perhaps they got thrown down from a leave or out of a cave when you where searching for the male.
Normally the Paros make them to form a clutch.But if you didn’t find the male and those white eggs are fresh perhaps the female lost them without being fertilized?
But I can’t believe, as you described your emptying of the tank, that you failed to see the male …
So let’s go on to give the girls another man next weekend!Hi Rafael,
That sounds clearly …..Let’s make a new date and do not loose good mood!
What kind of filter do you have? Inside filter? Is there a opportunity for a small fish to go inside?
I have put on all my filter incomings a piece of foam, because before I found always shrimps inside.
And once three young Tanichtys micagammae swam up the waterfall of my rucksack filter and survived inside except one, but I found them early because I missed them. I set the filter then higher and my actual rucksack filters have got a sieve net in front, so I hope no fish tries to swim up to find a new territory ….Even behind my first Hamburger Mattenfilter for my linkei I found four offspring. So I have changed it with a more finer one.
Hi Rafael,
These things can happen – if he had really gone, I can help with a new male for your ladies. But I’m not entirely convinced….they are such perfect in hiding. If you do not empty your tank from all leaves, caves, roots etc. and have only inside the sand and the fish and the mudd is again layng on the ground you can’t be sure that he isn’t hiding somewhere….you look under one leaf and he slips under the next and stays motionless ….Sometimes I am sure that only three of my Spaerichtys selatanensis are left … They are bigger than the Paros and the tank is just 25x25x100cm …. Next time I see all the six fish again …
And your Bettas I also see very rare times – the male I think I saw some days ago under a swimming plant and the female I saw today under the moss in the front of the tank when I was looking for them which my torch …And when Bernd asked about if there were any phoenicurus offspring and I searched in my tank 25x25x40 for the adult fish, I just found one female and some offspring. but I didn’t empty out all the “tank decoration” ….
Hi Rafael!
Your photos show definitly the two female! They are also quite nice coloured, but if you see the male in comparation, the difference is clear. The male has even longer fins and is blue or black, when he is in the mood, coloured, and has a blue spot on the side, the female have just a black spot there. I have some photographs in “my young linkei” …You could look in the tank (take the plants and the cave outside (you should first under water control if he is not already breeding in the cave!) so you will find out if he is still alive!
My male phoenicurus was long time not to be seen, I have described that in Bernds thread asking about offspring. So I looked for him (didnt find him) but the first little offspring …
Nowadays I see him from time to time.In the other way it´s possible that a fish doesnt survive the stress of transporting to a new home, but I did´nt experience that before … but you cannot be 100% shure …
That is phantastic Russel, congratulations!
Do you let the larvaes in the parents tank with the parents, or how do you work concerning this point?To Bernd: good idea, one small tank 25x40x25 is waiting … Do you think about a pair/a trio of your Harvey’s? …..
To Peter: yes, I bear your advices in mind. My linkei (Bernds Trio) isn’t at all interested in eating their babies. Once I had Tannichtys micagammae, they also were never interested in eating their offspring. But my Oryzias woworae definitely did.
My problem with the Paros at the moment is, that I neither find in time the clutches of my phoenicurus neither the youngs before they begin to show themselves. I use my macro camera as a binocular of a gamekeeper, at the moment nothing to be seen …
Yesterday I dared to look under leaves and java moss and found three new, but also several weeks old unregistered 😉 offspring …
I’ve never known fish who can make themselves so invisible an these labyrinth fish 😉 and I have just leaves, Java moss, moor roots and some swimming plants in my tanks …
Hi Rafael,
yes, I see the same with my Paros. But this way they have a chance to choose which girl likes to breed. The other female likes perhaps later on. I think this was the sense of Bernd Busslers advice to set Trios together.
In a bigger tank with more Paros of the same species they have more choice, but perhaps the offspring could be eaten by not breeding fish … Don’t know.
The third female will have a rest and stays a bit away from the new couple … You can find out who is the male searching for the blue spot at the side of the male and the bigger fins.Hello!
As far as I know, nearly every clean living food which is small enough for a Paros mouth can be eaten by them and gives a variation of food.But nauplia is in winter the most comfortable way to have enough food for our fish … And generations of aquarists have used it without salty complications… as far as I know … Of course I wash the salty water away with a sieve before feeding them …
