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A more shallow container than a normal bucket would be easier to harvest larvae from, and supposedly they prefer shallower containers to lay their eggs in.
I swirl a brine shrimp net around in a bucket that looks like it has no larvae, and always end up with many small larvae in the net to supplement the artemia I feed. They are not much bigger then the artemia.I see something similar to what is described above and show below in the video. My fish are actually a little more agitated in their swimming into the glass than the fish in this video.
Edit, I now see males fighting and more normal-looking behavior. Still curious what the schooling behavior means.They are also available in the U.S. from Wet Spot. I just received six that are quite small but still sexable, and they are schooling together and swimming around the tank and up and down the walls, and ignoring mosquito larvae that are much bigger than their mouths. Also acclimated from 7.6 ph.
I was planning on using a rainwater barrel that attaches to a roof’s gutter, now I won’t. So just wait one hour before using it, the pollution in it dissipates that way.
A mixed bed filter is more advanced than an r/o unit, right, and what brand names are there to look out for?
What is there to say about using rainwater, it’s recommended in the water section on this website.
I think I’m going to use rainwater and store bought r/o and then my own r/o if I absolutely have to. I can get 10 gallons or so at a time from the store and rainwater could certainly reach a pretty large quantity fast. I will look into the mixed bed filter.I’ll definitely get linkei soon, they’re available from wetspot. I was thinking of getting 4, and then keeping one male and one female since it seems anything other than just the parents really lowers the chance of fry survival.
The tank is 10 gallons, maybe 6 cm as adults justifies that, and maybe the large brood size also justifies it.
The substrate is laterite and peat covered in sand, in some areas I think the sand covering the peat and laterite is probably too deep. If I don’t disturb it and the cryptocorynes become well established, hopefully there won’t be any complications from anaerobic conditions. From what I’ve read plants might like those conditions but if the substrate is disturbed it can poison the fish. It’s only under two inches of inert sand in the deepest areas but it’s fine sand so must be very densely packed.
I thought linkei were clearwater because of the similarity in size, ease of care and lighter color which it shares with paludicola. For some reason it looks almost like trichopsis coloration on a parosphromenus body.Thanks, I actually was interested in paludicola after reading some igl-home.de threads with pictures of different parosphromenus, and you said they were basically underrated.
But you were talking about the more reddish form only I think.
I’ll try those emails, linkei is probably what I’ll eventually get because it’s available and is like paludicola, more of a pastel colored clearwater form.
If paludicola is actually available I suppose I won’t be able to choose a locality, I’ll just be lucky to have any, but which varieties tend to be more colorful? It’s a very widespread species, isn’t it, and there’s also variance among offspring of the same parents, so I suppose it’s difficult to know what you’ll end up with.Some of the stores here definitely know him so I can try and find out that way. It sounds like I should just choose a different species to work with!
Post script to this thread, I recently quit keeping the parosprhomenus and vaillantis. Producing enough r/o water for it was a chore. Endlessly hatching bbs was also a chore- there was too much water and too much live food needed. The tank was not understocked, that was a bad idea. Just too big of a tank with too many fish in it, and no babies to show for it.
Want to keep parosphromenus in the near future, in a small tank as is recommended.
These fish are at Uncle Ned’s Fish Factory, unless someone bought them in the last few days.
A pair of vaillantis, two female vaillantis, and probably one female and two males of parosphromenus sintangensis(?).
Separate question, is parosphromenus paludicola available very often? I haven’t seen it for sale from the places that I see licorice gouramis for sale from. The description says it is an easier and more widespread species but I don’t see it for sale anywhere.One male died, the only explanation since all other fish look fine is that it was mouthbrooding and that stressed it.
I don’t even know if it was that male but there are only two and one was seemingly mouthbrooding for a few weeks. Never saw any babies but there are so many fish in this tank they easily could have been eaten right away.
Or the male was hiding and not eating for some other reason, but it looked like mouthbrooding.
Can that process really stress them enough to kill them not that long after?
There were several days after it stopped apparently mouthbrooding and when it died, almost a week.
Never looked sick and no other fish shows stress.Thanks, the crpyts are repotted in peat and almond leaves, and are growing well. There isn’t that much peat covering their roots, they are probably exposed to the current enough to help them.
I never could get the vaillantis to eat frozen food, I will try flake though maybe they are so used to live it would be hard to get them to eat it now.The fish are healthy, that only was a problem when there was some bullying and when I used the wrong water, the symptoms went away when the fish settled in and the water was corrected (medicine was used in that case which reduced symptoms but the proper water seemed to make a bigger difference than the medicine- skin symptoms dissappeared with medicine but fish were still inactive until the water conditions were corrected).
The tank is 2 feet long, and 20 inches deep and high. It has about 25 gallons of water in it, it’s not totally full but it’s a Red Sea Max 130 which has 34 gallons of water, inlcuding a 5 gallon sump I don’t use so I’m guessing 25 gallons is in there.
There are 5 vaillantis, 4 parosphromenus and 7 ceylon dwarf barbs, they don’t seem to bother the vaillantis, all of these fish ignore each other except for the intra specific aggression between the vaillantis and sometimes between the paros.
The vaillantis were about one inch when I got them this summer, so maybe 4+ months since then.
They look full grown, though I’ve read it takes them a long time to breed, that they mature slow.Interesting observation, there is one pair that has its own territory and another trio- there are two females and one is dominant towards the other but they stay near each other and near the same male.
They used to fight viciously, and traded places as the partner of the same male, to the point one of them has slight jaw damage from the violence.
Now they are not completely peaceful but they don’t try and chase each other out of their territory, one is aggressive towards the weaker one but it remains near it in the same territory unlike the past when the weaker one had to hide.
And there has been no breeding of any of these fish, maybe there is too much crowding and aggression.
Every youtube video seems to show a pair of vaillantis in a community tank, maybe this is a good way to keep them since I saw a pair turn into a male bullying a female when I removed the other fish in the tank.
