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Hi Bryan. You should be able to find most information about how to keep parosphromenus species on this page, theres a lot of information. Also you might want to visit our facebookgroup, you can find it (and the group on facebook) by following the link on the frontpage here.
Its difficult to give you much advice on your questions, – of course there are many things which can be the problem, – its a delicate species which requires special water conditions, – and do not thrive in ordinary high light, strong current tanks, – but since you do not describe what kind of tank you have them in, its difficult to answer. And I think first of all, I would recommend you search all the information on this homepage and maybe that will give you an idea.
The forum here is unfortunately not so active, – most of our activity is happening in the facebookgroup. So maybe see you there 🙂
Kind regards HeleneHi Riley.
Its difficult to see species, – it could really be any species.
They do look female, but it can be difficult with fish that have not been feeling well for some time, or are young and scared. I would wait a little to determine if they are indeed all females. A male can be completely without colours untill he feels safe and good.
If theres no male in the flock, then id is impossible, – unfortunately. Most species females look totally alike.They need soft water, preferably also low ph – but not nessesarely lower than 5.5 – even 6 can be okay. If you are not experienced black – soft water aquarist, – dont aim for too low ph. It more important to have it soft – you can achieve this by using RO water, or even sometimes rainwater. But you would have to measure this.
Otherwise they appreciate no or low circulation, addition of leaves, (ketapang or other), brown/blackish water colours, hiding places (caves, small wood pieces, leaves.) Low light.
They need live food, – most will never take any other. This is one of the biggest challenges.Just a Quick remark, which is that yes, this will be not unlikely to happen with linkei, which is why we often recommend linkei to beginners, they are the least delikate of all species.
You will most likely not find the same with many of the other species.
But, in general, theres no reason also to keep paros in the lowest pH range, they do tolerate higher levels. But then again, it is not helpful for their general wellbeing to be kept in less optimal conditions, and normally a spawn of linkei Can be very productive, not just a couple of frys.
So, just to say, yes, it is quite possible with in particular linkei, but not really recommendable ?
Whether this is sseasonal or not, I dont know, it could also just be that spawning related ro a waterchange you did
And a ps, I should Warn you, that there are really few people using the Forum these days, people use the facebookgroup a lot more, ?, So if you find it a bit quiet here, thats why..Congratulations 🙂
I always say – if theres one, theres more ….
And its kind of normal too, to not discover the fry before they are actually rather big.
Also, – its kind of normal to say that, – if they have done it once, – they will do it again. So it is very good news.I just found also, in my nagyi tank, that there are fry from at least two different batches,- some are rather big, – and some are really small still. This is usual, – the male, once he figures it out,- will continue breeding often.
I wish you good luck, – maybe if you can watch closely you can discover which one is the female 🙂 ..
Hello Joshua
Thank for telling us about your work on ph reduction.
Personally for me its a bit difficult to understand, – but its always good to have inforamtion for others to use.I want to take this opportunity to tell you that unfortunately our forum is not very active any longer, which is why theres not a lot of answers to posts made here lately.
I hope this will change in the future, – but right now I just wanted to let you know.
🙂 I will copy one answer from facebook to you .— but if you have questions to this and theres a dialogue I would ask either you to go on facebook or the other person to go to forum 🙂
But lets see, I think maybe theres a language problemKamil Suchocki wrote :
I had P.filamentosus a long time ago, such rubbing in the gill area may result in gill worms, and a colleague wrote that he was flushing another filter from an infected paros I would give the drug “Sera mycoforte” according to the instructions written there. Sorry for my english, I write via translatorHi again.
Okay, it really does sound to me as if you do know a lot about things, – you are not unexperienced at all.
So you did many of the right things, and you have been aware of the right things.I have not heard of a paro having fish-tb, but of course if you have had the disease it could spread, – best way to know to get someone examine the fish. Paros are not very susceptible to diseases, – not that they cannot get it, – but they are remarkably strong in that sense.
If it is tb, there not really a way to reverse that, I am afraid. And in my experience, if a fish is sick, – most of the time its irreversible, we do wish we could cure it, – but most times we cant.I dont think I can help you more than than saying :
I do not know what disease this is, I really honestly question whether they are sick indeed by a sickness which you can cure, or if they are sick due to water related issues, and reactions to medications.
I do not honestly believe that you can help the remaining paros by adding more medicine of any sorts, –
I really believe that they do not thrive in hard water, and this will not help them fight off if theres something wrong. So the best you could do in my opinion is to – as I said in the first post, I think, – create an optimal tank, – and that would include extremely soft water (osmosis, rain), low ph – lower than 6,6, rather 5. Add leaves, humic substances are also important for paros.I wish you best of luck with it.
Maybe someone else can help you, I posted it on facebook too.Are you familiar with using medication – I mean, those kind of medications which aims at fighting bactial infections etc also has a tendency to kill off all the good bacterias you may have had in your filter, – meaning that the tank will have to recycle again, – and creating amonium spikes and all that …
Your medication could have killed your filter ?So you moved the tank – and filled in new water, – and moved the filter ?
Did you rinse the substrate ?
First of all, – maybe these conditioners are okay, I dont know them, but normally any kind of chemical is not good for paros. But doing a search on it, it does not seem to be that bad.
But the water then is not soft ? If you use tap water, its not soft, – and paros can live in that, but they will not thrive in it, and they will become more vulnarable to diseases. Its not ideal.Maybe I didnt get you right – you say you recently did a move ?
But you also say they are in the same tank for 2 years ?If its the same tank – for two years, I would like to ask, – how often do you ‘clean’ the tank ? Do you just do water changes ?
Reason I am asking, is that in the low ph, acidic tanks, – if theres a lot of waste – which builds up, at some point you can get an amonium peak situation. But of course, if you run a filter on it, – this is less likely, but it could be.
That could give the kind of symptoms you describe …Did you use the medication in the same tank ? The different types of medication ?
It is very difficult to say what medications does to the water, and what different types of medication do, – they may mix into something really bad.
Thats why I think the best cure is get them out of that water, and into a new tank.The reading seems fine, but they dont say anything about these kind of things, or amonium for example, which sometimes also can happen in a low ph, acidic tank, – that for some reason you have a peak in amonium, which will poison the fishes.
A number of things can happen like that – which you cant really measure, or which at least I think your measures are not saying anything about
Hi there
I will try to answer as best I can, – (unfortunately as you may know, this forum is not very active, )It sounds a bit strange what you describe.
First of all, its not age for sure. Paros can get older than a couple of years for sure.It can be different things, – water, the filter, contamination as I think you wrote, obviously something has become different since you moved ?
It seems to me to be something related to the water, – since the fish are itching – rubbing their gills, – some kind of poisioning. But from where it comes is difficult to say.
The best thing I think you can do, is what you are writing, create a completely new environment. However, I would really not think that you should treat with any kind of treatment. In fact – these can make thing a lot worse. Medication is often extremely unpredictable, in particular in soft and acidic water, – it may work much harder, – and paros and no fish that takes medication well.
So even salt, – personally I would not treat at all.
Create the best optimal water for paros, – soft, acidid, and let them be in thatThank you, Ekona, we appreciate your wonderful photos very much, – I will add them on the species page for opallios.
