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Very interesting fish, – and good photos again.
There are some rather interesting photos of paros in the link you provides as well 🙂 .. I have never seen those before.It looks great, Jolanda Its a big tank for so small fish 🙂 ..
If they can hide, they will 🙂 … but good that you see them every now and then.
The plants you have in the tank requires quite a lot of light, – and that is probably not so much ‘natural’ for the linkeis, – they like it a bit more subdued.My paro tanks has more or less no plants – except for some javamoss, – many of them are really just leaves for decoration – and javamoss.
And then I use a lot of plant for surface-cover. Duck weed 🙂 or salvinia natans are very good for that.Hello Fredrik.
Welcome to the Homepage and to the Project, – I am very glad to have someone else in Scandinavia 🙂 (I live in Copenhagen)
My opinion on the photos you have uploaded are
Picture 1 – yes, resembles nagyi
Pictures 2,3,4,5 – they are linkei for sure, – but ‘moon spot’ ?? 🙂 .. I am sure its just a ‘shop fancy sales name’, – the blue spot is normal for linkei.The last one, – p. gunawani ?
This I couldnt tell for sure, I guess the chance is really small. We will need someone else to look at the pictures, probably Peter Finke is best for this.
The fish at the photo is rather short in the body, – which is a little different from most of the species we see as sp.bintan, blue line etc.Where did you buy them ? Imagezoo ?
(ps. and according to our ‘security’measures all first posts of new users has to be approved first, this is why you didnt see your post before now)
Bernds method works really good, – I also do it.
Only thing you dont want is to catch some larvaes up in a container to feed your fish, and forget it in the living room overnight 🙂
Next day you will have many moskitoes frying around …But I would not worry about them carrying dangerous diseases, I never thought of that to be the case. And your fish will love it :woohoo:
Hi Jonette. So fingers crossed that they are good and healthy. Best of luck with your first try with paros 🙂
David, I am just completely blown away by your video, – its amazing. These small fish, – its so rare that you actually get enough time and light to see what they are really doing in there, in the cave.
Its so fasinating to see the parential ‘care’ which the male is showing, – and even seing the small fry like this is unusual. All I have ever managed to see are small black dots darting around, – here you see them actually like any small animal offspring, small and finding their way out into the ‘big’ world under the protection of a parent, – not just dark little spots moving too fast for the eye to catch.
Fantastic video.Please note, that we have edited the program a little, – it has been send around with a newsletter, – and here on the homepage it has also been uploaded, – but please note ONLY in english this time.
I also keep small boraras in some of my parotanks, – mostly boraras maculatus, – and I had in one instance a terrible outbreak of something which maybe resembles what you describe. The boraras was infected with lots of small cysts, – I actually thought it was ‘ick’, – and I remember it came after a change in temperature as well.
It was a small tank, – in fact I had one paro in it and 3 boraras. I didnt medicate at all, mostly because I had no idea how to treat tiny fish like boraras, – I have not a lot of faith in medication for so tiny fishes, and I was worried about affecting the paro with medication.
So I didnt treat, – and I did loose the boraras, – but the paro was totally unaffected even the outbreak was very bad. The paro survived and lived long after and it didnt affect any other tanks later.
It was not of course ideal not to treat, but this is the only time I have had any experience of this kind involving both paros and boraras. Normally I do not see this kind of sickness with any of the species.
The paros can get odinium, this happens now and again, – but other sicknesses, – it seems very rare.But am I understanding this right, – these fish are offered from Malaysia for sale and send all over the world ?
Good to hear that Bill, 🙂
And Martin, also very good to hear that you are coming, – I am looking forward as well to meeting you.
I would like to use this opportunity to ask all of you who are coming to also just send me an email on paro-conference@parosphromenus-project.org, as it helps me a lot in keeping a full picture of how many is coming and to make the plans we need.
Thanks a lot 🙂
Fantastic photos 🙂
You asked a question about it being ‘kuantan’. Looking at the last photos this question seems to answer itself by a ‘no’. The band looks very blue to me, which would indicate it not being the ‘kuantan’ form, but rather ‘cherating’ form.The observatons about the flashing is interesting – I never thought about it, but I do think I would recognise this kind of flashing with some of mine as well. I dont know so much about this, – except that I do know that some species have the head down display, – others more just ‘side-display’, – but its true, your male is very much ‘underneath-display’..
Interesting to learn more about that hopefullyWhen I booked the room in Hotel Hamburg Blick, I used their online service, – it worked very fine. There is a text-box where text can be added, – you should add in there that you are taking part in the parosphromenus project’meeting. This is important !
So this is also an option, – or as Bernd is saying perhaps write an email to the hotel directly.
