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Hallo Maik, und willkommen hier.
Welcome to this forum.Ich denke dein fish ist ein anjunganensis.
I think your fish is anjunganensis.Was denken ihr andere ?
What do you think ?🙂 Now you have got me hooked, – from saturday I will have 8 little sphaerichthys vaillanti’es swimming in a 60 liter tank. They are pretty small, only six months and 3 cm big.
I am really looking forward to getting more experience with this beautiful fish, and will of course share if I learn something 🙂 …I think what you describe sounds like what we have been discussing before with chokolate gouramies, that to have a small ‘flock’ is good in order for agression to be dispersed, or maybe more to keep a natural hieraki, – so at least bringing back the couple of males was good in order to make the pair ‘bond’ – as I understand it.
Arent fish always more ‘agressive’ around feeding ? When I had the bigger gouramies – gold, pearl – I learned that it seemed that the dominant male would ‘allow’ the females to feed when food was there, but then after he would have to ‘re-affirm’ his dominant role and would chase them a bit extra, so they didnt ‘forget’ that he was dominant.That is a very interesting construction 🙂 …
I am really curious as to the specifics of how it is going to work ? Where will you lead the water which accumulates in the lowest tank ? Or circulate it . ?Oh .. I see, you will have one external filter on it, – taking in in the lower tank, and out in the upper ??
I am not sure, – but I think that quite often fish here in Denmark is importet from Tjeckoslovakia, – even paroes sometimes, I think. That is import for smaller generel petshops with no speciality in tropical fishes, – but just the ordinary fish-types. They often import from Tjeckoslovakia.
But I cannot say anything regarding whether they are good or not, – but I get the feeling that there is maybe quite a big ‘industri’ of breeding for commercial purposes. This probably does mean that the quality sometimes can be less than optimal, but there might be good ones in between.I use 100 procent reverse osmosis water and have done for a long time – with the paro’es. As you say, there seems no reason to add tap water as you would normally.
When I started with paroes, – and also still when I talk to other aquarists about soft and low ph water, the generel idea is that it is almost dangerous to use 100 procent osmosis water, and most people would really not recommend it. But with paroes its different, this is the water they are used to, – so much better to use this as it is. And if you take precautions and monitor any changes or big leaps in ph etc – then theres no problems really.
I have actually never experienced any of the problems that I was told would be present by using pure osmosis water, – (ph-crash among other things)I think even adding 12 more paros 500 liter it is far too big a tank to keep parosphromenus species, – they would do really well in much much less – and as you say the chance of any fry to survive is a lot bigger.
Chocolate gouramies and betta rutilans would certainly make it difficult for fry to survive.In my opinion 500 liter is too big for parosphromenus, – if you have the opportunity to have large flocks of one species, – then a tank of 50 or 60 liter could do well also.
In nature I think parosphromenus males, though they are territorial, but the territory they occupy is really small and concentrated around a tiny place where they have found a suitable place to make a nest. The male will come out looking for females in a small area around this place.
The bigger the place the more difficult it becomes for the male to attact the females to this place he has found.
Feeding in such a big tank could become a problem as well, as the parosphromenus will have to be fast – and chocolate gouramies are very fast on food too 🙂 ..I think theres a lot to be learned for me regarding this problem with this, – but I am a little bit curious about it still.
It seems to me that the malpuluttaes then must have been more vulnerable to this condition,since they are mostly the ones affected.
But developing this condition – darker spots, coloraations – happened within a week for the linkeies after having been put into a new tank (with new material – leaves, plants, a piece of wood) – this seems to indicate to me that theres a ‘contamination-proces’ happening now … is that possible do you think ?
That once the malpuluttaes have developet this condition – (perhaps because of inappropriate tank-conditions) – but once developed it may become contageous ??
This sound weird to me, but I dont know how else to understand the development with the linkeis.
No matter what, – I will try to ‘cure’ it through paying attention to the things that has now been brought to my attention, and I will then see if it hopefully has an improving influence.Well, looking at the thread from IGL I must say this is excatly what I am seeing on the malpuluttaes, – so I will study this thread more intensely, and there must be something I can learn from that then
Thanks a lotthank you for your replies.
Somehow I think though that none of them applies, – the one regarding rotting leaves and decomposing things could actually be relevant, – because I do have lots of leaves, and organic materials, – but I know for a fact that with the four linkeis I changed everything in the tank, – its was all new, and theres no old material in that tank.And it has been for a long time with the malpuluttaes, and they dont ‘deteriorate’ – at all. They seem to live fine with it.
However, I will look into this with the decomposing stuff, because it sound interesting. I am using quite a bit of peat and maybe the quality of is not perfect, or could cause something if left too long.🙂 isnt it so nice when you spot these little fine fry of parosphromenus, – they are so cute 🙂 …
I think its still really interesting, and congratulate you with achieving what is not so easy, to have fry of parosphromenus, and this still makes me consider rearranging some of my tanks and providing a little more flow and filtration.I use 12 and 20 liter tanks, – with no filtration or heating. No gravel, but sometimes spagnum or leaves to cover the bottom, – small piece of wood, caves (clay) – javaferns and java mos, and many times duckweed to cover the surface.
Mostly one pair for one 12 liter, but sometimes in 30 liter more fish, like 2.4.
Not intensive breeding at all, but also very little ‘succes’ rate, – one or two youngfish every now and then. Really too little, and I am not happy with it.
For this reason I am thinking I should change my concept, because obviously this is not the ‘way’ to produce many fish. Which I actually would consider being a succes if I could.I understand why you think so, from the look of the way the spots are on what you can see on the last picture, – that in my opinion could look like deissneri – BUT, – this really does not mean that it is, – you have to put it together with the rest, especially the colours in the tail and there are other species that might look the same. You can see on my picture, – this is not a deissneri, – although it has similar type patterns in the unpaired fins as yours. This was identified as sp. Sentang, – and yet still not certain about that anyway. Very beautiful fish though, which unfortunately I dont have anymore now.
Is there red in the tail ? It looks like that in the second picture.
I would agree with Christian, its still likely to be a bintan type fish, or the others he mentions.
