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Of course the elephant is not really convienient for bigger tanks :dry: – I use it mainly for the 12 liters. But the principle of holding the hand can also with some effort be used even if using a bucket and a hose.
But I also do not change 50 % each time, – I change maybe 2 elefants 🙂 … (that would be around 3 liters)
Some plants needs time to adjust if they come from hard water to the soft acidic water in our parotanks – the ceratophyllum demersum sometimes drop all the ‘leaves’ – but it will ‘toughen up’ after some time.
The one you mention – ceratopteris – is one I also have problems with, some survive, – most of them dissappear. What makes the difference I am not sure.I must say I rely mostly on javamoss and javafern and floating plants such as salvinia and duck weed :).
Heres my true companion with regards to waterchanges. Because its so small amounts I change it is enough for me to use this elephant which normally is used to water flowerpots with.
I then pour with one hand and hold the other in the surface of the water in the tank with an open palm (= picnic plate) and pour water from the elephant into my open palm. This way there is only limited stirring up of things in the tank.One thing I was thinking about with your tanks, Jennifer, are the Java ferns, – these do not like to have their roots in the gravel – they are plants that grow attached to something else like a piece of wood or stone or even free floating.
In some of my tanks which I actually often rearrange I admit I have chunks of javafern that I do not fasten to anything, they just float. The roots then provide shelter for small fry 🙂Its hard to say, – I wouldnt be able to, – but its a very interesting fish, nice to see that it actually is maybe ‘close’ to what they say it should be.
Have you ruled out opallios ?If you look at the image at http://www.igl-home.de/bilder/gallery/parosphromenus/00.pOpallios.KOS.male.800×600.072dpi075.html I would think theres also quite some similarities.
But the likeness to phoenicurus is big too.Bartian, I would be happy to be a tweedie keeper – I mean Denmark is not too far from Holland 🙂 .. If we could somehow sometime get some up here I would be happy to take some fry if you find more …
Bill, did you search the site or the forum 😉 – it gives quite different results.
I searched forum and here is a link to different threads in which the word moina comes up. Maybe some inspiration there
https://www.parosphromenus-project.org/en/forum/search.html?q=moina&childforums=1Yes, that makes it more clear to me 🙂 .. looks pretty good.
So there were more than one, – now two. Then theres probably more than two .. theres always more than the ones you have spotted. :blink:
I have seen small fry go for the mosquitoes too, – sometimes the larvaes runs off with the fry 🙂 ..
Thats were really small mosquito larvaes are really good.I think to challenge the genetic programming of your fry you need a flash for the camera. That does wonders sometimes. But I know, its not at all easy.
Thanks for trying it out though :).
No, one mosquito larvae is not much.I have found that it varies how much I get out of these rafts, – some produce a lot of tiny larvaes, other dont really. And then I think it actually takes quite a long time before these tiny larvaes are even big enough to really be used for food, even for fry.
I also wondered about whether actually mosquito larvaes needed food to grow. So that just putting a raft in a cup of water wouldnt really meet their requirements 🙂 …I still have plenty of mosquito larvaes in my garden ponds, so doing fine without rafts also. They are spendid food.
Hi Vale, congrats with the ‘larvae’ 🙂 .. I am sure there will be more, there usually is.
If they have gotten so big that you can actually spot them they will probably be big enough for artemia. I dont anymore feed my tanks with smaller food and I still have a lot of fry growing up, so I think they are able to take artemia quite quickly.
Your cave-system looks interesting, I am not sure I completely understand 🙂 but if it works its good.Hmm … but its quite interesting though, – I have bought paroes which came from Ruinemans quite a few times, and it seems to me that this is one importer which actually does know what they are dealing with when it comes to paroes.
I think my parvulus has come over Ruinemans.
And I think some of the shops in Denmark that sometimes have good quality parosphromenus deals with Ruinemans.
So I will keep my eyes open here as well.Moina are really good food. But otherwise theres always the artemia nauplia, which I find is an excellent food.
Hello Andreas
Very fine fish and also good photoes.
Well, p. deissneri its not.
Is there any red in any of the fins or is it just me seing it a little bit ?
Comparing your photo with the fish we have under ‘blue line’ I would say you are right, – its looks quite similar. But its also not very far from the species p. gunawani.
I am not sure really 🙂
Anyone else have an idea ?🙂 we welcome all questions – we are just happy that you have found our homepage and that you want to learn about the parosphromenus species, – so just ask 🙂
I can see the point with the tube – its a good point, because that is a risk and once there’s egg in it they may float away which would be a real pity.
The image is almost certainly a female.
The fact that the male has already started building a bubble nest actually might be a good sign that the other fish is indeed a female. Im not so sure he would do that if it was a male, – he would still be chasing it, but not build a bubble nest.
And nipping at females is also a rather ‘male’ behaviour in order to get her in the mood 🙂Its always hard to say, – it could of course be another male, which would explain if the male is a bit hostile … however, it might also just as well be a female.
In my experience it could be that what you have done is putting together two fish which have been under less good conditions, – travel, shop and all that, – any female would not be ready to spawn yet.
The male however is eager and makes bubbles right away, and now he thinks the female should just be right on the spot 🙂 … which of course she is not.
She needs maybe a few more days, some more food or maybe she just need the male chasing her in order to get into a spawning mood.This could well be the scenario as well. Best thing to do is to really provide good dense hiding space for her / him and see what happens in the next days.
Yes, I am quite sure velvet is what I also mean, – its in my experience the one illness which paroes are phrone to, – and in particular wildcaught fish that has been under long periods of stress (or maybe other reasons) –
Normally paroes are quite strong and healthy fish and dont come down easy with illnesses. But odinium can occur. It shows up as small small dustlike particles on the sides and you can also see the fins being affected. If one fish has it, it will likely spread.
But its not a ‘bad’ bad disease, it can be cured, or stopped, or prevented, – but it can also disseappear, and then reappear.
I have found (as well as many others with paroes) that the one medicin that helps is spirohexol, – it really helps, – but lately I have not been able to obtain it in the small tablets that I usually have had. But maybe in the states you can still get it. Its worth while having.
http://www.seahorseaquariums.com/JBL-Spirohexol-20-Tablets//1510
This is the right one. Most shops now only have drops, and its really difficult to figure out how much for a small tank. I used the fluid once with not very good result. Tablets are better.
One tablet might cure a small tank.
But then, after that, good maintenance is important, – and sometimes a bit higher temperature can also be quite helpful. I dont know if this goes for all species, but I have had good results with p. linkei and slightly raised temperatures.I think odinium comes when the fish is weakened, I think its possibly always present – but if weakened and in less optimal tank situation it might develop. Thats why I think wildcaught or commercial traded fish (long time in stressfull situations regarding water, food, tankmates etc) are more phrone to it.
