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Copper sulfate combined with NaCl works very well. If you also raise the temperature to slightly above 30 degrees, the white haze disappears ‘like snow in the sun’, as we use to say here. I forgot the exact amounts, but google will probably tell you.
I tried making some, but it is afraid of my phone. It always darts away when I try to make a picture, very annoying.
It’s that fish indeed. It now has more colour, and a very thin blue band in the caudal is visible at times.
It was actually the exporter who listed it this way.
Thanks, but I meant between bintan and gunawani. I wasn’t very clear.
A small but interesting fact is that my fish were ordered as filamentosus…
Is it possible to differentiate the females?
It might as well be the same batch as my sumatranus come from then. There were three species in the tank: bintan, sumatranus and a third, unidentified species with a stout body, short rounded fins and somewhat different fin colouration. Do you recognise that description?
Although no gunawani, it seems to be a beautiful type!
@Cranes
Sounds like a spectacular view! It’s a pity they don’t come over the Netherlands… Only geese here, and never more than a few dozens.Yes, some (all?) forms have that. My first paro species looked very similar to your fish. I still have offspring of them, which seem to have a stronger red-brown band in the caudal. It dissappears when displaying. When displaying aggressively, their fins become black, with grey bands instead of blue. At times their fins are completely black, without any bands (except for the white seam, which is always visible). They’re now living with my sumatranus, which they seem to ignore completely.
I have no experience with gunawani, but as far as I can see, these look like ordinary Sumatran bintan… I have three Sumatran bintan-like types, and this one looks like just another form to me, unfortunately.
Your bucket o’ mud surely is the most beautiful tank I know.
It looks like a perfect paro tank, except the water isn’t ideal. It is well possible to make a tank look like this, but with acidic water. Most Cryptocoryne will grow happily in any type of water, just like [i[Microsorum[/i], and there are a lot more.
Good job, Kotzulla!
Not to slate Ruinemans, but I’m sure they won’t see the difference between bintan and gunawani. I have quite some experience with Ruinemans, and they just sell fish with the name the exporter gives them. It could as well be a pack of Orinoco dolphins, and they would still say they’re sure it’s gunawani. In a seller’s tank, even an expert would not be 100% sure about a paro’s species.
@Peter Finke
When I bought my sumatranus a few days ago, I saw some very stout-bodied bintan-like fish, with much shorter, rounder fins and a different colouration. Does that match with gunawani‘s appearance? If that’s the case, Ruinemans’ fish could well be the real gunawani!€10 a liter? Are you sure you asked for water, not liquid diamond?
Better get yourself a RO unit then, or try collecting rain.
