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Hmm, I see hours-of-standing-with-my-hands/net-in-the-tank-paro-hunting in my future…must wait until after my exams :O
Thanks for your advice!Hah! Well well, I will def. be prepared for anything then! I somehow doubt any fry would survive in this tank, It IS jungle-like with plenty of moss/wood etc, but the little boraras I have would be sure to pick them off!
I need to get a PH pen before adding paros to the new tank – the liquid API tests I have only go down to 6 and are crap when it comes to tannin stained water. I want to make sure there is a low enough PH that cycling isn’t an issue.
It will also be a nightmare to try to catch them in this tank…..there are some pics of the tank/paros on this link:
http://www.plantedtank.net/forums/21-fish/1129650-licorice-gourami-breeding-question.htmlAny ideas on catching them? bottle trap? 🙂 rip apart tank plant by plant with tears of frustration? 😛
Also, with regards to the male moving the eggs, I have been watching both male and female closely (they actually come out and swim with the boraras on occasion, and are out in the open very often:))
The male has started to do his nipping/head down/ fins fanned out display towards the female again…I am guessing he wouldn’t be doing that if he were caring for eggs elsewhere in the tank?
Thanks! I actually do not have access to beech leaves, we have much more wild oak here, of which I have already gathered copious amounts. I’ve set the tank up with a lot of leaves…hopefully not too much to be anoxic. I am going to catch some asellus aquaticus so hopefully they will help with that too… I will also go on a collecting expedition for alder cones soon. For now the paros stay in the planted tank, until I can find the perfect balance in their new tank 🙂
Great to hear that the soft tap water here (with addition of IAL, alder cones etc) just may be right for paros. I have already started experimenting with this.
As for where I acquired mine…. to be honest, they were an impulse buy (of which I am NOT prone to, I usually research species I am about to get quite thoroughly). I was in my LFS about a week ago, and spotted a lone pale licorice gourami languishing in a bright tank with many other large fish. I felt sorry for it, I remembered reading about them – that they are very very shy and like soft water and live food (of which I have both)….so, I asked to buy it…as the employee fished it out, another one shot out into the net, so I ended up taking home two. Apparently they had been sitting in the shop for weeks.
I put them in a 20 long heavily planted tank along with boraras species (6.2 pH, 1KH,2GH).
By the next morning, they had coloured up dramatically, and it seems I have lucked out and acquired a male/female pair. I placed a few PVC tubes in the tank, and the male immediately claimed it, the female went pale, almost white – got those black bars over her eyes…and eggs appeared stuck to the ceiling of the tube. Unfortunately they were only there for one day before disappearing. (KH too high, I;m guessing?)I realize they need to be in a species tank, with softer water, and I am in the process of setting one up for them. In the meantime, reading and learning as much as I can 🙂
I believe they are p.sp.sentag (which I believe are one of the most commonly traded ones?)
