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Do you only feed them or really let them multiply?
I think the generation time is not to big but I don´t know how much naupli they produce. I thought someone might have tested it.
Hey,
as I personally discussed with Helene, I will probably say something about this discussion in the Census.
Please remember the origin of your fish and keep as much information as possible. Even if there is no chance to identify it will help you und the ones you give your offspring to. That is the point I see in all the discussion before there is no real need for the exact species name, but you want to separate your fishes and keep them as special.
This is it at the moment, I will gernerally say something about this.
Hey,
has anyone ever tried to use adult Artemia? I know there are sometimes adult Artemia in stores available, but I won´t use them.
Last year I think, I saw a circle system for artemia. There were two tanks one with algae and one with the artemia. I don´t get the real setup now but I would like to know if anyone tried something like this. Adult artemia should be better for adult Paros and there would be no problem with the cysts.
Hey everyone,
it is a shame that I am not that present in this forum as i want to or maybe should.
Peter told me about your conversation and I think I should tell you, that the idea is really great. Everyone of us wants a real time census, but we also know that it is not possible. Some organisations tried similar things. The basis is a little tool of he homepage, where you can report your stock. Than you have important things to do and will never give an update to the stock. I did for years in the IGL and only a memory-letter made me update it for the reason of a real census.
So like Helene said it is not reliable. You will see the census has a great fluktuation of members and fishes, so this is our hobby. As a hobby noone has the fishes as the priority.
I think our system is established and a lot of people are taking part, because there is a memory-letter and a fixed time (there are still members without internet). Little changes are possible and the evolution oft he census is going on, but it seems like the simplest way ist the best.
I can collect or include some data like the location, but like Helene said, there was no request for the map and she maybe has some data for someone intrested.Best wishes,
Bennie (Benjamin Wilden)
Hello,
I was “lost” for some time, but now I am back.
Well, I moved and started new, which dind´t really work…
Back to topic: I never managed to breed blackworms for feeding. They only grew in a shrimp tank with a lot of organic matter. But I wasn´t able to catch them.
They also seemed to be less productive.
Now my tanks are refilled (I have almost no fishes at the moment) and i put a littel subtrate from that shrimp tank and some daphnia into the fresh.
Today I saw them. The whole ground is inhabited, so if there comes the fish, I will not feed for a while, but there is the same problem. How do I catch the worms.
I tried nessels and salat, the result are two little worms 🙁
What do you do?
Hello
as I said in an other place, my problem was and is that a lot of my young where male. In some cases every young was male.
I tried a lot of different parameter like pH, humidacid, temperature and planting. Nothing changed.
Someone asked me at the IGL meeting about hormone in plastics, but I have no plastic in the tanks…
Maybe it is just fate.
Bennie
Hello,
I tried a lot of different shrimp in Parosphromenus-tanks but only Caridina parvidentata grew well. So all what I say is connected to that species.
I never felt good with shrimp in a breeding aquarium, but I have a common tank in which they do their cleaning job and donate a snack from time to time (their fry). I had a lot of young Parosphromenus in that tank and Betta, too. I think young Paros better hide as Betta so I think it is possible to keep them together.
But I used a 160L tank and a lot of plants within, so you may try but keep an eye expecially to the early fry.
Good luck!
Well Peter,
if you search for Parosphromenus in Youtube you see a lot of different videos. Most I recognised came from UK.
Maybe we should present us there with some Parosphromenus advice…
Hello,
I have also no problems in a 160l tank, but for breeding I would prefer a smaller one.
Your construction is intresting, but your overflow-system have one problem: the fry. They will be blown in the next tank and you have no control especially when there are different species inside. I wouldn´t use a kaskade I would use da normal tank with “Edelstahlgase oder Edelstahlgewebe”, Maschenweite im µ-Bereich (sorry I don´t know how to say that). That is like an static net which only allowes water to pass. Than it is also so much easier to construct.
Have fun while informing 😉
Bennie
PS: Maybe I will post a tutorial to build tanks by e.g. wood where it is much easier to create individual.
Hello,
I answerd the food question in the food tread.
The water I use is rainwater and I got the same good parameter as Bernd.
A friend of me asked me if it is possible to use water which flowed oder an bitumen-top.
I think it is ok, but there are gases and carbonhydrates which may come out in the summer when it´s hot. I used water which fload over bitumen but only when there was enouth rain to exchange me tanks (4x 250l). There should be nothing left.
But what do you think? Are carbonhydrates or other bitumen parts dangerous?
Hello,
I tried two species of “Big Infusoria”, too, but I lost them before feeding the fishes with them.
In an other Topic there is the question wether it is good to feed with food from natural fish habitats. I think this is the right place to anwer.
I used food cought in a pond where fishes are living for a long time and had no problems.
Hello,
I think it is not necessary to separate one pair but it is helpful to control them and to have more juvenil.The light is not so important, they feel safer in low lighted tanks but swimming plants can help there. (Yes i had seen some really higlighted tanks but I wouldn´t use that for breeding)
Your question about the temperature is not so unique to answer. I think it´s a bit different from fish to fish but in the summer I got 30°C for a short time and none of my fish died.
I hope I can help you!
Bennie
Thanks for your respose. I think blackworms are a good food but should not be used to often becouse they are a little bit fatter than other food. To keep them alive should be no problem. As you said they use to use air if there is not enouth oxygen in the water and they will breed if you feed them with salat, nettles or other organic material. But very slow becouse they take off their back and that have to grow to the origin size to be taken off again.
That you said about the water is no problem for me. Of couse there will be problems if you put blackwater (with mostly a lot of organic material) in a box and wait for a long time. The water parameter meight change a bit, but why do you want to filter that at that time.
Is it not clean enouth then you keep it?
I mean why do you want to have more than you use? Than there would be no problem.
