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I do appreciate your quick response. I will attempt to get better photos, but the color will be difficult to capture since males of this fish lose color quickly if disturbed. I only have a single pair of the original fish remaining but do have a fair number of F1. I will also examine these to check for variation and possible photos. The original males were so similar that I had difficulty determining which male participated in the spawnings.
These fish are definitely quite stout. Michael had lost the fish he had retained so was not able to witness the adult fish in his aquaria. I did find that they had a few attributes that surprised me. The fish would go for a considerable length of time without breeding, but once a pair bred, another pair would also spawn within a couple of days. On one occasion I had all 3 fish breed within a 2 week period. This meant that one of my males spawned twice in that period. All 3 spawns produced viable eggs.
They did not build a bubble nest. One of the males would always move the eggs to another site within 24 hours after spawning.
I made up a sieve with 155 micron opening. I use about 5 cm length of a large diameter PVC pipe to which I fasten the cloth to the bottom with PVC cement. It must be cured and rinsed but I do use it quite often to rinse the BBS for my Paros. Still, the hardness does build up. I keep some RO water in a bucket with a couple of catappa leaves for water changes as this starts to build up. I also do use Epsom salts and a small amount of sodium carbonate in with the sodium chloride in the hatch water.
