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Marius, 🙂 I am glad you like the fishes.
I have quite a few linkei now, and with some luck the fry will grow up and there will be more. So if you lived in Copenhagen you could certainly have some, but I dont think you do 🙂It sounds like you are very well prepared.
And I think if you get advice from Allan Brown you are getting help from a very good expert. I dont think I can add anything there ..
I think paramecium is really good when they are at that size, – I only recently started to culture that, and I think my ‘fry-surviving-rate’ has grown since then.
Its difficult with those tiny fry to know how much to give, but they are so small that any tank will almost be very big, and I often think that there shouldnt be too far between the foodparticles 🙂I hatch live BBS once a day – twice is a lot, you must have a lot of happy fish 🙂 …
How nice 🙂 .. they are so tiny.
What do you feed them ?Are they still in the tank with the parents ?
I have some experience with rearing fry now, – but I have found along the way that there are things to learn all the time, one of this is food for the fry
I quess you might not have seen them since that day on the coconut roof 🙂 .. paro-fry can dissappear and then turn up one month later 1 cm big 🙂 …
I think Mike, that you will be rewarded if you do find a nice quiet tank for your pair, – and you have a really good camera I think, so if you set things up carefully and plan a little you can get really good videoes without disturbing too much. I have also found my camera back again, and enjoy making videoes. Actually I would really like to show you my last video of today (and hope you dont think it bad of me to use your thread 🙂 … and here you can see a pair of linkei’s also maybe like Peter is describing ‘trying’. However they have spawned – as you can see – already a few days ago, – but it seemed like today, they tried for long long time, and it really didnt look as if they knew how excatly they should do.
But if you have a couple – that likes each other – in a smaller tank, and set the cave a little to the back, but not too much, have it so you can see inside the cave, – the one I use seemed to be perfect for photographing, although maybe not so perfect as the roof is a bit not even, which means that eggs might slide up, not a good thing, – however they obviously did not.
Of course you have to make sure you do not disturb the fishes or scare them, they wont feel comfortable enough then, – but you can make them used to the camera by having it standing on something stable in front, – I dont know what its called in english, but I have a ‘foot’- thing for my camera, so it stands there all day in front of the tank, and then all I have to do is push the on button. So theres not much movement in front of the tank. It also gives better images if the camera is not hold by hand, but is standing on something firm. Light is a problem, I acutally glued a small pocket lamp onto the camera 🙂 … and pointed it into the cave, – not a very strong light, that might disturb them, but enough to make video.
I am trying to follow this pair and the eggs until the larvaes have gone from the cave.
Here it is … actually I cut it down to at least half the time, they spend so long in and out, trying, leaving, trying again 🙂 ..
They did succeed in the end, – there are some interesting views towards the end, for those who have the patience to watch that long .. 🙂[video]http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NCykvgkks&feature=player_detailpage[/video]
Thank you Stefanie, I have contacted support regarding this.
😉 I think we solved this … should be fine now, thanks again..
Thank you, – yes, I am glad I found it again, I made it last year I think, and never did anything with it. Glad you liked it 🙂
I have also read it often, – some people who have paroes seem to have experience with them jumping, however I also never do anything to avoid it, and only once (in maybe 200 fish) have I found one dead on the floor, obviously it had jumped. But I never take particularly care of it, – I always have cover glas, but with holes for feeding, and at times I leave the glass half off, or all of.
As with all fish, of course I would never have an open tank if the water level is all the way up, – and I would recommend a cover glas also. But I dont experience parosphromenus as particularly in risk of jumping more than most other fish.
Hi Bartian.
No, you are not in need of glasses, – we do not have a PM system …. yet.
I am hoping somehow that it will be an integrated part of this site soon.One of the effects of this fair participation has been that I has been put on the list of DAU (danish aquarium union) as a potential lecture holder, and for this reason I have been told that its a good thing to have some material made. Which made me remember that I actually – maybe more than a year ago – made a ‘film’ which I never used for anything, because I was not able to upload it and didnt know what to do. But I found out today that I was able to upload it to youtube by just changing a little setting, – so I did that.
There are a few ‘mistakes’ in my text, actually. I got wiser it seems since then, – but apart from that I would like to share it with you. I might redo some of it, edit and put in new clips and maybe alter the text somewhat.
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XV72EiRTjs&feature=youtu.behttp://[/video]Its interesting that we both went to these shows in the same weekend, I in Denmark and you in Italy. But my experience is also that people are interested.
I think your leaflet is looking really professional and good work 🙂Thanks, – thats interesting to hear that you are also doing that, speaking in clubs, – that seems like the way to go. I will have to – once again – put up my courage and plan a presentation, – I dont feel so comfortable doing that :).
At the fair, suddenly I was also taken a little bit by surprise with someone wanting to interview me to a rolling camera. I have just recieved an email that I will be send a copy of this. I think it was for presentation also in a club of the whole Fair thing, – 🙂 … but anyway .. I am curious to see what it was I actually said.I know another member from here, Stefano Valdesalici, also attended a Fair in Italy on the same weekend, – and hopefully he will start a thread and share his photoes and experiences here too.
Because I knew that the paroes in the tank might not at all show themselves, I had made a slide show on the computer with images from the homepage. These images of course was with all due respect to copyright etc, and shown only with species name and photographer. This was quite a good idea because you could then see how beatiful the fishes are.
But as it really showed up, my paroes were not so shy as I had expected. They quickly seemed to feel comfortable in the tanks, and in the p.harveyi tank the males were sorting out the territory, flashing to each other, and in one of the p.cf.linkei tanks one pair decided to actually get interested in each other, with sexy eyes and flashing and courting, male rushing back and forth to a cave, – all in all very spectacular to watch.One visitor to the stand was a professionel fish photographer from Denmark, Johnny Jensen, – who was very happy to be able to photograph parosphromenus species, – so he spend some time there, and afterwards gave his permission to use all of the photoes on this homepage, which of course I am very happy about.
Heres a few of the best images he tookI was also invited by at least 3 different aquarium clubs to come and hold a lecture regarding the parosphromenus project, and the parosphromenus species, – and this of course I find a very good result for me, – then there seems to be an opening towards telling more about the project, and hopefully inspire more people to join.
If you look in our species index under nagyi,- in the smaller images below in the text – I would also say it might be Kuantang, or a form like that. As far as I understand the broad band in the tail fin of the Kuantang is more white than blue, where Cherating is blue.
As there still are probably more details which should be in place in order to make a correct id, we will wait for people who are more certain than me 🙂 .. but I would say you may be right
