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I am planning to feed artemia and white mosquito larvae to my future paros. Maybe they will also dine on the moina, if those are around. I have seen no mention here of feeding them wingless fruitflies or “micro aaltjes” (literally, from Dutch: Micro eels), a kind of nematode.
Please let me know if these are also suitable food.
Hi Andrzej,
You can always ask Utaka (if that’s where you ordered them). I believe I read that they were caught in Borneo, but I’m not sure.
EDIT: I just looked at the site from Ruinemans and they say they’re from Borneo. 🙂
I haven’t seen them yet, and since I am inexperienced, I would not know. I am getting them from Utaka, where Bartian made the determination after observing them. He is a forum member. Ruinemans had labelled them “deissneri”.
I just wanted to give others a heads up:
Ruineman’s in Holland currently has P. sp. aff. bintan and P. nagyi. I have bitten the bullet and ordered them from Utaka in Amersfoort.
My plans for aquarium expansion were delayed by the heatwave. Now I will be getting an aluminum shelving unit, but I need to determine the size of the new extra tanks first. I have received conflicting info. I know Peter wrote on this site,” The ideal tank size for 1 pair of licorice gouramis is 20 to 25 L”. Other people have privately recommended larger tanks. First, I was planning on 30 L tanks with maybe also one from 60 l. Now I’m thinking all should be 60 l. I want “happy fish”! So here are some questions. The answers will influence my decisions.
What size tank do you keep your paro’s in, how many couples to a tank of what size, do they ever share a community (blackwater)tank?
Will paro’s breed if they are kept in a paro’s only tank with several couples?
Would they be happy if kept in a 110 l community aquarium with Boraras Brigittae and Paracheirodon Simulans?Is there a chance of them breeding in a community aquarium with many hiding places, appropriate water, etc.?
A lot of questions, I know. Hopefully the answers will also help others new to keeping this fish.
Thanks in advance!
JonetteHi Andrzej,
I’m sorry this reply is so late, but perhaps it will still be helpful. I hope your fry are thriving.
If you want to grow your own live food, you may find these links useful (one is Polish 😆 ) :
http://faq.thekrib.com/live-food.html
http://www.ichthyotrophic.pl/live_en.html
You can order live food here in Holland online. Just google “levend aquarium voer” for lots of choice.
Best wishes,
JonetteUpdate: in total, I caught 5 Damselfly larvae (in Dutch: Waterjuffer, een smaller, thinner kind of libelle). The first one was the largest. Several days later, there was a winged one, dead (probably from the lamp) floating on the water and a second winged one, alive but very weak by the lamp. These were very small, perhaps due to an absence of food? Then a couple of days later, I caught and killed two small ones swimming in the aquarium. I have been very vigilant and have not seen any others. Thank goodness, as now I have some aquarium inhabitants! I have two small schools of fish: Paracheirodon Simulans and Boraras Briggitae. I also have a Hemirhamphodon tengah couple that I am madly in love with! They are tiny, beautiful and adorable. They have been flirting with each other. I got tired of catching snails so I now have Anentome helena carnivorous snails working for me! :cheer:
This morning,I discovered some teensy Copepods in the aquarium and the Boraras were hunting and eating them! Google has convinced me they are probably Moina, a good food source for micro-preditory fish and they eat debris and algae. It’s a win-win situation! :cheer: Google tells me they most likely arrived with Java moss. I still have two aquaria without inhabitants.
I will soon get some additional tanks. Hopefully, I will aquire my Paro’s soon.
Cheers,
JonetteHello Dorothee,
I’m glad your females recovered. I’d like to know if it is advisable to keep a “fish emergency kit” handy with remedies for Paro’s? I have just ordered the book, which I most likely will have a difficult time with, as I don’t read German. Could you or someone else reading this advise me what it is good to keep handy? It can take too long to find the proper medication. Although one hopes to never need it, it is better to be prepared.Cheers,
JonettePeter, when I was a child, I planned to become an entomologist and even qualified for a special summer tutelage by a professor when I was twelve. I later changed my mind and went into a creative field.
I never stopped to think that the larva in my tank could be an invasive species! I did think about setting it free in my little pond, but decided it might attack my beloved salamanders’ babies, so I flushed it down the toilet. As far as I know, my plants come from a Dutch nursery. But it certainly is fascinating to think the beasties and their eggs that stow away on plants could be invasive species! I didn’t take a photo, so don’t think I could be very helpful to the specialists on that website.
Good evening, Dorothee,
Yes, I read your thread about all the larvae in your tank. Sounds like a horror story! :ohmy: I haven’t seen any others and hope I will not have to remove my plants and wood. I have nothing living in my aquaria except occasionally a couple of evasive little snails. So there really is nothing for the larvae to eat, if there are others. I did a water change and tidy-up in my 54 l aquarium today and found nothing. I added alder cones for the first time and now the water is like tea! I will do my water tests tomorrow.This evening, I will do a water change and tidy-up in my 110 liter aquarium. I am not planning to keep Paro’s in it, but some fish that like acid water (around pH 6.5) That is the aquarium where I discovered the larva.
Tomorrow, I will do a water change and tidy-up for the 20 l tank. I will be adding alder cones to it.
I have put off opening the box with the osmosis set. Tomorrow. :blush:
Cheers,
JonetteGood morning, Jootje,
I’m in Amstelveen, so that is not very far from Beverwijk. Is Hermanus a shop or a person?I’ve just learned that Utaka in Amersfoort can supply me, and am waiting to find out if there is a shop closer to me that Ruineman’s supplies.
Cheers,
JonetteHello Dorothee,
Well, today I’m actually happy that I don’t yet have any fish, because I caught a dragonfly nymph in one of my aquaria! I’m always obsessively careful to examine new plants and wash them and isolate them several days before adding them to an aquarium. I will now be extra vigilant at watching my tanks for the following days, because if one hatched out, there may be more! :angry: I just received some new plants today, including Ceratopteris thalictroides, and they have been examined, washed and are now in an isolation tank.
I have read other posts about “deissneri” so I know what you mean. I will call Armin Schaefer this evening and ask what he has in stock. He should be able to help me. If not, I will call Utaka, a specialist aquarium shop in the Netherlands, to see if he can obtain them via Ruinemans or his own importer (thank you for the suggestion). I am planning a trip to Utaka next week to pick up some Boraras Brittae and Sundadanio as my first tank inhabitants (providing I don’t have an infestation of dragonfly larvae and get my water pH right.) My osmosis set arrived today!
It is very difficult for me to travel anywhere, so that is an obstacle to my picking up fish. But next week, I plan a little outing! :cheer: Monday will be too hot! But then it is supposed to cool off again.
Cheers,
JonetteI just googled “Prachtgourami”, which is the Dutch name for licorice gourami.
Listings:
Matavi in Meppel (Drenthe) has Parosphromenus deissneri:
http://matavi.nl/Product-Prachtgourami-2,5cm_3443.aspxJonette
Hi Andrzej. Ruinemans is a wholesaler with specific minimums and pricing rules. I guess if people did a group buy, it would be feasible.
Betta’s Pride is Armin Schaefer’s business. I assume he is on this forum. I believe he has the function of being the Dutch representative of the IGL.
Cheers,
Jonette
