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My linkei, quindecim and tweediei eat frozen food from the block when I hold it in their tanks, which you could consider trusting the hand feeding them.
To my experience, shyness strongly depends on species, tankmates, but even more on the tank setup and the feeding hand’s owner. I kept my first paro’s (some bintan-like type) in a 25L tank full of oak leaves. There was more place to hide than to swim and I never saw my fish. After a while I considered them dead, so I moved the tank’s contents to my 100cm tank. When moving, I discovered the pair still existed, but moved them anyway. It was not very long later they started swimming around in the meter tank, not worried at all about my presence… They started breeding soon hereafter.
P. linkei never seems shy, not even in shops. P. quindecim idem. I have two pairs of tweediei, in two different tanks. One tank consists of some stones, moss, and a few leaves. The other tank is full of stones(forming caves), Sagittaria subulata(a grassy plant) and Lilaeopsis. Too much hiding space, apparently, for I seldom see them, and when they see me they disappear.It is also very important how you behave in front of your paro’s. If you press your nose against the glass they’ll feel observed and dart away, but if you sit down in front of the tank and watch for around ten minutes, they will come out of hiding and start doing the things paros use to do.
Combine these factors, and you either never or always see your fish.
@Peter
Most crypto species I try do actually survive and grow, even in my most acidic and dark tanks. I always lose their names, but some green species grows in a tank I can only see my Betta hendra(a super-shiny species) when they’re at the front glass watching me (which seems to be their hobby… It’s a strange feeling, being observed by the creature you’re observing…), and still I only see their colour with a flashlight.
Still, java fern does a lot better in these tanks.
I have to add I use peat granules instead of gravel or sand. Peat contains a lot of nutritious chemicals, so this probably influences their growth and tolerance of unfriendly waters.I have seen them now. They’re not tweediei but have a lot of blue in their fins. White to light blue ventral filaments, so most likely alfredi or some closely related form. I saw some of them displaying, so they seem to do fine in the store. Caudal fin band mostly brightly red, like in tweediei, with no significant blue part.
I’ll get some of them soon.
Does anyone know of a Dutch keeper of real tweediei? Seems like I am the only one in the country keeping this species… That’s way too few keepers for a safe population! I saw some fry last few days though, so there is hope…
Head shape is not very bintan-like… More like my linkei and tweediei. I can’t say more than that it looks like something bintan/harveyi-groupish…
I have a few years of experience with Ruinemans, and I can say they have no idea what they’re selling. The picture on their site shows Nanochromis transvestitus, and I wouldn’t be surprised if that is actually what you get. I ordered some through my LFS though, so they should appear at Utaka in Amersfoort in a few weeks, when Ruinemans’ summer break ends.
Since P. tweediei‘s geographical distribution is fairly limited, it could as well be harveyi or [/i]alfredi[/i], which would’nt be bad either.They have P. linkei too. Quite big already and in very good condition.
I also use that method, and never had any problems… Your experience sounds quite scary.
Some kind of yeast infection sounds the most probable to me.
With the current system both buyer and seller have to make clear they either want to sell or buy something very specifically, and even at roughly the same time. A topic on the “trade” forum, which is already present, would be much more efficient.
I once sent some Sicydium from the Netherlands to London, in the bagage section of an airplane. I packed eight or so of them in a bag with a liter of water and filled the bag with oxygen. I put the bag in a small styrofoam box, which was packed in the guy’s suitcase. They all survived and are now swimming happily in a London fishtank!
This should be possible with paro’s too, I guess…That sounds interesting!
Do I understand well and are even the black lines on its body reduced, but the spots still present? That seems quite unusual…Remarkable. All paros I have do this. It seems very typical for paros, as even Betta don’t do it. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is a population/form typical feature.
P. pahuensis if you ask me… Look at body shape, ventrals and the black blotch in the dorsal fin. Wait for a better picture.
Looks like the real deal, or at least something very similar, to me!
Awesome,keep posting! There is a great lack of pictures of paros in general, but virtually none of this species, so everything you do is a great job!
