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P. nagyi ‘kuantan’ male and female. Sometimes its clear white, – but that does depend on light, and also on how much the male is feeling ‘in the mood’. You can see on the photo I uploaded in the beginning of this thread that sometimes it comes out more ‘golden’. Its not unlikely its the same male at a younger age.
I agree with Stefanie 🙂
The band is white, so I would see it as P. nagyi ‘kuantan’ – but I am not sure what are the differencies when it comes to P. nagyi ‘Pegan Nenas’ ? Except where they come from ?
But just to assure you, – theres no doubt in my mind 🙂 you do have p. nagyiI am by no way the ‘expert’ with identification when it comes to more difficult fish 🙂 … but I would say, that probably bintan, or rather a variant within this ‘bintan’ group, which is rather big, is what I come closest to.
So I wouldnt rule that out.Its a beautiful fish, – but definitely no sumatranus. However, I dont know about the harveyi connection, because it seems to me that theres some red /brownish colour – is that right ? Coming from Sumatra, if thats correct, rules that out anyway.
Theres no inner band in the caudal fin showing but is that just because of the photo or maybe the fish isnt showing full colours ?How about light ?
I have some troubles as well with the ceratopteris, – but its strange because in some tanks they grow fine and in others they dissappear.
But with some of my other ‘floating’ plants, I realized that they do really also like light, – I use salvia natans a lot, and its quite clear that the ‘stripe’ underneath the led light panel is far better growing than in the dark corners.
I use two kinds of led light strips, one with a clear light and one with a more yellow light, – and theres a difference in growth as well between these tow types of light.P. linkei is exceptionally beautiful, so we are looking forward to seing fantastic photos 🙂
I always have a small flash light nearby when I feed, and sometimes if in doubt I use it to see if to look for fish, that way I know they are there.
But then can easily hide anyway, I do know that. But still – sometimes its a help.quite lively fish 🙂
The quality is not that bad in my opinion – when taken with a phone, thats really good.
Beautiful male in there.It is hard to say, – but definitely no p. sp. sentang. This species would have only bluish turquise colours. The fish you are showing has a lot of red.
The only other species with this kind of colouring, as far as I know, would be the Parosphromenus rubrimontis – P. rubrimontis aff. Tanjon Malim, or p. aff.rubrimontis ‘ Mimbon 2008’ (which you can see some photos of under other species.I think its quite interesting, and good thinking. Looking forward to more experience with this kind of tank dividing, but it makes sense of course.
The small tanks are good for some purposes, but it does of course leave the fry exposed. But I guess I would feed the ’empty’ spaces a little if I thought there were fry in the tank, – or maybe place a small source of light to attract the artemia nauplies.
Fry in my experience learn really quick where food is supposed to be and they position themselves there quite quickly.Yeah, I know that feeling, and I did understand you, – that you were not looking for this particular species, – but that that was the one that was there.
But it is really so interesting the way these things happens with the identification, – and theres always some good learning to be done 🙂Of course – being so actually rare in the hobby, – mind you, – when one day it really is P. gunawani :woohoo: we wouldnt hesitate to advice you to buy all you can …
Well, one day .. as with p. deissneri
Peter, I think thats is really interesting and a good explanation.
It is very clear, that since P. gunawani was officially decribed, it has been seen offered quite a lot of times around in shops in different countries, – and before that it was never ever offered.But as we sometimes talk about, – the fish from the bintan group are really beatiful, and it would be so good if it was possible to also get some more knowledge regarding the variations in this group.
So we certainly will try to document these fish, – and find some good photos also, – its really quite interesting.Good to hear that they are cheeky and well, – its not the best photo 🙂 … but I would dare say its unlikely to be p.gunawani,- just the body length is suspicious.
They look very much like my ‘p.gunawani’.Theres a lot of good info regarding p.gunawani in these threads, – perhaps you have already seen them, but I will link them here
https://www.parosphromenus-project.org/de/forum-4/3-Species/1495-really-a-p-gunawani.html
https://www.parosphromenus-project.org/de/forum-4/9-Trade/1475-p-gunawani-at-ruinemans.html
