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Because of lack of space, I put a pair of sp. Sentang in a meter-aquarium with Dicrossus filamentosus with quite acidic water. The paros became very active and were not shy at all. After a while I even added a pair of Apistogramma agassizii.
They are making a nest and are courting at the moment, thus seem to thrive.
Badis normally don’t jump, but I once found my three B. juergenschmidti on the floor. Probably the water was too acidic. With bad water conditions every fish will jump, apparently. Since paros demand premium water this risk is higher, so be careful.
I have kept four species without cover. I think your source has experience with other anabantoids, of wich quite a lot are good jumpers. As far as I know paros don’t jump.
Betta midas isn’t a member of the waseri-group altough they look very similar. B. midas belongs to the anabantoides-group.
If you found them there we now also know where they live.With this info you should be able to give them a good home, I guess.
I found the FishBase page: http://www.fishbase.us/summary/Betta-midas.html.
I would keep them like most other Betta spp. from Borneo. This means soft and acidic water. PH around 5 should be fine. Breeding shouldn’t be hard when fed plenty of live food like white mosquito larvae.If you manage to prepare water with pH 4,5 at age twelve you sure are very special 😛
If you have experience with other fish(preferably blackwater fish) I’d say you could try P. linkei or P. sp. “sentang”(or other “common” species).Nice foto’s!
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Are you sure the betta’s aren’t Betta miniopinna? The ventrals are too red for persephone…Unfortunately they are already sold out, I picked the last specimens.
I am not 100% sure about the fish because I do not often see them at one time. I’ll do my best.
I ment that the female has longer ventrals. Also they appear less “rudimentary” like in the male. The male’s ventrals are short with a but wrinkled short filaments. The female’s ventrals are more straight and longer.
I will try breeding them, maybe something interesting will come out.I’ll call it sp. Sentang then. I think they were mixed up in the shop’s tank. First I got two males, of which the other one was much more colourful. That one died without clear reason so I bought a new one which appeared to be a female. The female has different ventrals. But, since it is a female, I can’t say what it is. I bought them as deissneri indeed, so I didn’t know what I was buying exactly. The catch locality was given as “Borneo” on the label, not Sumatra, surprisingly.
I hope the breeding problems with the real deissneri will be solved soon, before they go completely extinct.
Hm.
It has changed it’s colour now. There is now an iridescent line around the fins. I think it is a bintan-variety lacking the beautiful colouration of most species.That’s interesting to see! Not only the fact Parosphromenus were already imported commercially back then but also the other fish on the list. Apparently angelfish, Mesonautas, Betta splendens(and even a wild species) and other guramis were already being kept 100 years ago. Also, I wonder why there are still very few people who ever heard of Parosphromenus and even less who keep them. They arent THAT hard to keep!
Very interesting discovery! Are there any pictures of the fish? It would be cool to see if they have changed during a century.I got a 12L and 25L tank also so I could put them in there too, but the advantage of the 54L is that it is running for a while already and has a pH at 4,5 or so with an external filter. I don’t have a filter suitable for such a small tank AND capable of filtering over peat. I don’t know if I can get the pH at the right level without using peat in the filter.
Thanks for the answer.
At the moment I’m not keeping them in a breeding tank because I wanted to let them grow first. The biggest males are around 3,5 cm so I suppose it’s time to set up a separate tank for them. I have a 54L tank in which I’m currently breeding Apistogrammas while waiting for the Parosphromenus to grow. I’ll put the Apistos in another tank then and use the 54L for Paros.
