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I thought mine was pretty close 🙂 … thats why I bought them, but they were not. There has be quite a lot of blue in them, not just a tiny band, – but lets see. I am sure you have also found then other threads here regarding this problem.
Getting paros home from shops is really tricking sometimes. In my shop, – nomatter where they come from, they keep them in ‘ordinary’ water as the rest of the fish, they dont bother lowering ph or anything. So I take a good time adjusting them to lower ph when they come home to me, and dont put it too low in the beginning.
With wild caught fish I always look out for odinium, – of course its probably due to the stress of moving and changing waters, but I find wild caugths to be more prone to it.Hello and welcome to the Project. We are very happy for each new member 🙂
Its good to hear that you have experience and dedication, we certainly welcome this too.
Apart from the challenges that you mention, I would add one more in the field of parosphromenus and that is the one of correct identification.
So although I gratulate you very much on your new parosphromenus Gunawani, I would be somewhat doubtful that this is indeed the case. I myself bought p. gunawani some month ago, – and they were absolutely not p.gunawani.
P. gunawani has recently been offered quite a few times in shops, and I have not yet heard of one which really was P. gunawani 🙂 ..
This is unfortunately the situation (and challenge) with these species, they are often labeled with wrong names, and we then have to figure out as best we can what are they really. Of course this is unfortunate, but it doesnt make the fish less interesting, its probably just another species, – in my case – a beautiful p. bintant type ..
So next challenge 😉 … is also photos … 🙂
It will interesting to see what the fish that you are getting are, – if they are indeed P.gunawani, in which case you will be very lucky, – and if they are not … what is it then 🙂 ..?I am not sure I understand ?
When I catch the larvaes I either keep them in a container with ordinary water – and of course if I dont use them all I will change the water every day probably. I only keep them in small container, maybe a liter or so.
And if I keep them long enough 🙂 they will have gone by themselves 😛When I use them for food its of course without the water..
It would seem unlike though to me that black mosquito larvaes should be ‘bad’ … I use them a lot in summer times too. I avoid the very big and nasty one, but otherwise dont worry about them.
You might have to consider also that chocolate gouramies are not very easy fish in any case. I have never had much success with them. If first one of them falls ill theres a risk the others will also be vulnerable.
I am sorry for you about loosing them, they are so fine fish, – but I have given up with them 🙁grindal worms are fine, good size. But dont feed excessively, – have other food supply as well. Artemia nauplia are the best as ‘main’ food, and then supply with other live food every now and then.
A diet only with grindal worms would not be a good diet, as far as I know, it would be to ‘heavy and possibly fat’ – Also quite difficult 🙂 .. grindal worms cultures dont grow that speedy …
Whats wrong with artemia – its the easiest and the best 🙂 ??They can do fine.
I use it quite often, and in some tanks they just grow and grow as in all tanks, actually they can become pretty thick.
BUT … theres is one problem, – they dont like too low ph. Or at least they will need some time adjusting to a lower ph.
You will find that if you take some hornwort from a normal tank and put into a low ph tank, it will loose all its fine leaves, or needles. That is if the difference is too big.
But if you acclimatize it slowly it will settle and then it will tolerate it good. If I want to have hornwort in a low ph tank now, I take some from one of the other low ph tanks.
And of course also, they do need light. They will grow better with more light, – and I actually dont think that light as such bothers the paros, – the thick growt of the hornwort can provide just as much cover and shade as less light but no plants.
I never thought about or worried about nutrients being too low, I think its a sturdy plant that will do fine even with little.to be honest, I rarely use microworms for adult paros, – to me it looks as if they dont really see it, and dont ‘go for it’. If all my other food fails, I will feed them microworms, which I always have, – and I do think then the adult will at least not starve. But a preferred food I would not call it.
Moina are excellent, – but difficult to maintain. Some years ago I had some cultures, and I had no problems maintaining them, – but the last years all of them dies off after a couple of months.
I am sure someone will come around with some good methods, but otherwise you can search around here in the forum, or on the net in general, – there will be plenty of good ways.
I have always fed mine yest (also in the good days)
The biggest problem I think is perhaps the maintenance of the container they are in. I believe when I had success with them it was due to the fact that I kept them in small containers in af closed old aquarium with a tight lid and light on. Since I wasnt able to do this anymore – but have kept them in smaller, less light, and no closed lid – I failed.
Nowadays I dont have themI dont know about this – but … I would say, I definitely avoid those really big black mosquito larvaes, – they can be really really big and nasty.
But theres no problem with most sizes, but the really big one … I would be careful.
Of course it also depend on what fish you feed, – somehow a chokolate gourami should be able to handle it ??
I am always a bit cautious with my live food, – I know most people dont seem to worry, but I have experienced – as you – suspiciously connected death with feeding with mosquito larvaes, mostly the white ones, –
Maybe fish get carried away because they are so attractive and simply overeat… that might be a possibility too ??scary stuff :woohoo: :woohoo:
Did you get it in with some live food ? I am very cautious at this time, because they are all over in the small ponds in nature.
And I guess they are small too, so you can overlook it when feeding with say black mosquito larvae…
I really dont know how you can make sure they are out of the tank, but the meat trap sounds like a try worthyes, and you can now count yourself as a member of the starry eyed paro-fry-spotters :blink: :blink: :woohoo: …
I am looking hard into my parvulus tanks, but at the moment they do not seem to be breeding, – however, the other day I thought I would play the good guy and unite a single male with a single female …. no way, – it showed up there was another male (obviously always hanging out in his cave) .. and my god, they took a little fight. Unfortunately my camera was without battery, so I couldnt take photos, but it was really interesting to see two big mature parvulus males seriously fighting (not just showing off).
I of course took out the new male again, and found him another single lady with whom he is now having quite a good time I think. I might hope for more fry of this wonderful species then.😆 this is just so familiar to read, Stefanie, – yes, this has happened to me too.
And more than once. I remember in particular a p.harveyi that I discovered and thought how could I miss it, it seemed nearly adult :blink:
I dont think its particularly nagyi’ish, I think its just paro-fry 🙂
But this is also the couple which you expected were bad at eating own fry ?? So again this little fish must be glad he/she was able to escape not only yours, but also his mothers eyes, – well done, little fish !
