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I use new, empty tea bags like these: Link
They are made to fill in fresh tea leafs.
I am using slim tea filter bags to place a small amount of peat in my box filter. That works fine and I can remove the peat without any crumbles.
Very interesting, nice photos!
Do they look different than other nagyi species when they show “normal” colours?
Hey, it is’nt as big as it sounds like 😉 and I did’nt describe it correctly: The container is not fullfilled with chocolate, but is covered with it and it has a size more or less like a real chicken-egg. The container inside is a bit smaller than the egg itself.
In case of you are interested, here is a link that can explain it better:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_%C3%9Cberraschung
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder_Surprise (english)No, he is using this cave twice in a row.
Since I placed this one (it floats at the surface) he ignores the two other caves at the ground. Astonishingly he changes its colour to beige when he is sitting in the cave. If he leaves it (e.g. for food) the “normal” darker colours come back.
The cave is made of “plastic” and it normally contains chocolate. The size is nearly the same as a film canister, but I was’nt able to get such a film canister here, so I looked out for an alternative.
Hello all,
fortunately I was able to take a nice snapshot of my breeding Parosphromenus nagyi. The larvae swim in a cave that we name “Überraschungsei”. It seems like it is welcome to the fish, it is the second time that he used it for breeding.
Hello Martin,
the older fry only could have been found microorganisms that have been in the tank, because I didn’t feed any special food. But the tank is sort of crowdes, with a lot of leaves on the ground. Maybe an excellent place to hide and find the first food.
3 times a week the Fishes get Artemia nauplies. Sometimes I actually offer some portions of “rettichtierchen” (Spirostomum cf. ambiguum), microorganisms that look a bit like paramecia, but it is much easier to produce.
The parents mostly ignore the rettichtierchen, but the fry love it.
Meanwhile i can see about 10 – 12 young fishes at different ages in my tank, and they parenta are about to breed.
Hello all again,
I would like you to take part in my last Parosphromenus pictures. I’ve got some nice shots of the youngest ones:
Meanwhile I found about 10 young (could be more) fishes from different spawnings and it is fascinating to watch them. They act like their parents, impressing each other and changing their colour from light stripes to darker stripes. They seem to grew up very fast.
They look great, congratulations! And thank you for these pictures.
How “big” are the young paros? About 1 cm or just longer?
Thank you all :cheer:
Peter: If I am more familar with breeding Parospromenus, i’ll try to do the “expert way”. At the moment I am happy that my fishes are well, healthy and generally in the mood to breed.
On the day before yesterday I saw the one male hiding deep in a half flower pot. Using an electric torch I could see lots of eggs at the end of the pot. Yesterday the eggs still have been there and the male was still watching them. And I found another young fish, a bit smaller and much younger.
Hello everybody,
let me proudly present the little new resident of my parosphromenus tank:
The juvenile has a length of about 1 cm (maybe a bit smaller) and I was astonished about its dark colour.
Best regards,
SylviaYes, it is. I had some lava stones and smashed it into small crumbs because my substrate (sand) has been too light.
Hello everyone,
some good and one bad news from my little friends: 1 week before I found one of my male dead suddenly in the morning. On the evening before all fishes seemed to be healthy and active, there was no sign of illness. :unsure:
Now the three are alone but very agile. They swim all around the tank and aren’t really shy. They hide only if I move too quick in the front of the tank. And one of the males started its courtship dances:
This seems to be a nice female one, doesn’t it?
Here you can take a look at the third paro. At the moment I am not sure, if it is a male or female one. Its colours are as striped as the female, the fins are mostly transparent, but with a lot of coloured spots in it. And I guess the dorsale is more long and sharp than the dorsale of the female.
Sorry about the bad quality of the picture, next time the glass plates will be cleaned.
That sounds great: I cross my fingers that they breed successfuly and you will get some small young Paros.
