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Helene, please use these photos in the homepage under the species account, it would be an honor.
Thank you.Thank you very much, Helene.
Yes, posting to your Facebook users a link that takes them to the forum post about these fishes is fine.
Almost certainly, they are P. sumatranus. A very elegant fish to be sure.
TCE also last week received P. phoenicurus. I can verify that they also are the correct species. This likely indicates that a recent import from Sumatra has occurred.Hi Gianne,
Welcome to the forum. Nice to hear you have your tweediei from Lawrence Kent – I agree, they are very beautiful, as you have said. Your experience with keeping and breeding wild bettas will go a long way with keeping and breeding your tweediei. As the more experienced breeders have already commented, keep a close eye on your water conditions, especially conductivity. I was only able to get viable larvae with a conductivity of 50 µS or lower. However with your rainwater showing a reading of 8 TDS (or perhaps ~16 µS), you are well below that. I think it was commented that one does not want to go too low on TDS/conductivity, maybe a bit higher say 15- 20 TDS (30-40 µS) might be better? I’m not sure positively sure of that, maybe others can comment on those values.I have some F1 tweediei from Lawrence as well, you can see some photos of them here. I think there may have been a first spawn from them, as one of the males has been missing from feeding time and occasionally seen chasing other siblings away from his cave under some leaves. I will separate the two males with a female each in separate spaces for future breeding.
Good luck with yours and if you are handy with a camera, please post photos if you get the chance! BTW, thanks for including the link to your website, very nice!
David
Thank you, Zahar 🙂 I feel the same about your photos – very nice work. It would be fantastic to see some more photos of your adult P. harveyi – both and female – please post some more photos if you get the chance! Such good photos as your provide much information that can be very useful about the characteristics of known paro species. I think P.harveyi is one paro that is under represented in terms of really good photos – there are a few out there, however, more would be great.
David
Here is a brief video of some of these P. tweediei ‘Sri Bunian’ feeding. They are really starting to show better colors.
Here are a few photos of F1 P. naygi. Now ~ 6.5 months old ~2cm in length. Male and female characteristics clearly visible at this stage. There is at least one clear pair in a group of about 10-12 F1 young. This group is female heavy.
Appears to be one male and five females
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/921/msOmXc.jpg[/IMG]One sure male
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/BA5UuM.jpg[/IMG]One sure female
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/P3nje2.jpg[/IMG]There are several more smaller young, but unclear as to M/F in those.
I sent my F0 prime breeder female and a F0 male to Lawrence Kent some months ago, and they produced the dozen F1 young he has. The F0 pair I retained have not bred, but I’m hoping the female will come into breeding condition this Spring/Summer.
David
Thanks, yes, beautiful species. This group is in ~25L of water in a half-filled 40L (10 US gal) aquarium. There is plenty of space and caves of leaves for them to hide and have small territories, yet they know where the food will be at feeding time and they all come out to that area to feed. I observe all 7 of them feeding, so there is no lack of getting food due to a larger area.
David
I had to give some less time to the hobby these past few months, yet with enough care these P. tweeediei have developed with some very nice colors and are now just about 2.5cm in length and 8 and half months old. I have two males and 5 females, so a good potential breeding group. When fully grown these should be quite magnificent animals. Nice to see all the other photos and discussions ongoing on the forum.
Here are the two males and three of the females
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/oj3LAe.jpg[/IMG]Here is the smaller, slightly less colorful male
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Here is the larger male (showing better golden colors) and a female
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/923/BrNuGX.jpg[/IMG]Here one of the females
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/924/DrgFMi.jpg[/IMG]And another of the females
[IMG]http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/xq90/922/z2n3GV.jpg[/IMG]Lawrence – very nice photo of this wonderful species! Great news. Many thanks to our European friends for getting some of this beautiful species to Bill for him to bring back to USA.
David
Excellent work by you Lawrence, Peter and Michael. A real expedition! Very good photos as well. Thanks for posting the continued photos.
DavidVery nice photo, again, Lawrence! Thanks for posting. Your photography is really good, and yes, as Peter says, try to get more, as I’m sure you will – I think these will breed for you, the male looks very healthy.
May I ask, what substrate is in that tank? Peat pellets or something else.Best,
DavidThank you Bill for the translation and great to see the donation option now available. The history of the funding is important and it is good to request financial help. One question, the very last line has “…For this purpose a stand:…” What might that better translate into in English – as that does not make real sense? Could it be “…for this purpose we stand…”?
Nice work on the photos, Lawrence – glad to see they survived the trip home and are well settled into Seattle. Interesting looking population. Best of luck breeding them!
Dave
🙂 A close examination of the first photo reveals that Lawrence’s finger is not actually touching the water and therefore he did not actually sample it :whistle: . I think this is because he knows that using the sensory method, one must guzzle and swill one liter of the sample solution at least 5 times to get an accurate reading – given the looks of the peat swamp water :S, I cannot say I blame him for the slightly diminished sampling technique :lol:.
