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I would like to say, that these ideas are something which we are working with ‘behind’ the scenes with regard to how to improve the homepage. There are some good ways to improve and make it easier to use profile information as described here.
So I will just say, that at the moment I am hopeful that we will be able to soon make a few changes which will make it easier, and of course it is still quite possible to just note the information as Peter suggested.Hello Ted and Maurice
Thank you very much
I would also like to wish everybody here a very merry Christmas and a happy new Year.
And at the same time say thank you all – new members as well as long timers for your contributions this year to this Forum and to this cause we share, and as Ted I hope for a very active and positive 2015 🙂So Pavel, – if you have got notes, – thats really good too. My dream would be to have an article which deals with describtion of the whole process including eggs, larvae development, fry development with many photos for documentation.
Good morning, Zahar 🙂 and thank you for posting these photos here, – I think they are so fine. It is not often that we have seen photos of fry which are so clear, – and we have more time been talking about this, – what are the different stages of the fry development, and also how does fry of different species develop.
As I told you, I would like to put together at some point a small article or something like that, – which could document this development, as well as the period of the larvae development in the caves. So this is fantastic material for that.Hello mm and welcome to the Parosphromenus Project and this homepage.
Those are wonderful photos, and very good to hear that you have been able to also have offspring with them.
The way I would see it, is that the fish definitely belong to the bintan group, – most likely one of the more commonly imported species in North America, – which is describes as p.spec. ‘blue line’.
I am not an expert on the identification, – but I do think it is along these lines that you should look for identifying your fish.The sp. blue line is described shortly in our ‘Other forms’ section, – which you can see here https://parosphromenus-project.org/en/blue-line.html
I think they leave the eggs, – let them sink to the bottom and don’t touch them. I think they pick out the live airtime only 🙂
My tanks are really dark – also the one in which my phoenicurus live (the photo) – so I don’t mean the tank light – but for good photos you need an external flash in my opinion 🙂 ..
Or to make a useable photo I have a simple led-strip which I move around. i place it on the lid of the tank just for the time when I want to make a photo.I agree that its a discussion which we learn from, and worth while, – I definitely learned a lot.
I am still though a little in doubt as to how I should name this particular species when it comes to Census.I think its the light and the photo-technic really. Even on this photo here the fish is seen a little bit from the front, which makes it less obvious with the red band in the tail. I would still think its phoenicurus. There was one of the other photos you showed, Dorothee where I think – even though pale – the feature is even more clear.
Light does a lot also when you take photos.
Just wait until you get a better camera at christmas 🙂 ..thanks for documenting with those fine photos. Its great to see off spring of these fish. I will be taking some photos of mine when they grow up. At the moment they are really small.
Thank you for your comment Peter, – it is a help with your expert view, – but I think this ‘eager’ discussion was also coming to the same conclusion, – and the learning that I had from this discussion was a great help to understand how difficult it is to determine species. And that there are times when it just has to be left unanswered or open.
We are always looking for the help of ‘experts’ for identification, – and always in the end has to contact some of you for final help. This is of course fantastic that we can do that, – but if we don’t question things we never learn ourselves.
In the project I think we do put a lot of emphasis on species identification, and naming or trying to id the fish, – so to me no discussion can be ‘too much’. A lot of the information that we can find in the few books etc is centered around identification and just getting to the place where one can say, that the fish you have is not a clear species, seems to be important when you read about it, and also when you report to Census.🙂 and please forgive my expression ‘looking for their father’ 🙂 … of course they are not, I was merely using a bit of humour , which I think there should be a place for in this forum. And ‘knowing’ who the father is relevant for me, because I do report to the Census, – and of course I would like to be as accurate as possible, – even if this means I have to write that the species is unclear :).
And Steff, I know that Mogens does not have the fish anymore unfortunately.
