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I see 2 young, both about 1cm swiming around now, maybe over the next few days more young will appear. In the 50l tank there are 4 Trichopsis vittata, 6 kuhli’s and 1 adult male paro linkei now. The breeding pair of paro’s is separated in a 20l tank. I will check there nest frequently, so if there is fry I can seperate them, to have more survivors. Yesterday I did a waterchange in the breeding tank, today already I am seeing breeding behavior.
One of the female’s has been murdered 🙁
The remaining man also has enjuries on his tailfin. Maybe they had eggs, therefore the male was chasing the female away and she couldn hide.The second pair is doing wel. Thow they do not go in their nests verry often.
I will put some buckets in the garden today. Never heard of this trick before. Thanks.
No I cannot look into the nests. I never realy tought of that, I figured, when there are younster, I will see them swiming around. But if they have a nest, is it not important to leave them alone, give them some piece and quit ?
Maybe I should think about a way to setup the nesting coconus, so I can look into them without distubring the parent.
This is the male guarding the coconut house.
does anyone have any answers for my questions ? My food sources are running out…
My fish are getting old, I would like a nest of new ones…Nice catch. I think it is better to catch mosquito larve in winter times, because they are smaller. The one I caught in summer are to big my paro’s.
The youngster I had are all grown up now. The tree youngsters were 3 males. So I mannaged to trade 2 for a female. That meens I have two pears now. I have put them in a 20l breeding tank. They have a coconut and a ceramic flowering pot for nesting area. The PH is lowered to abou 6.0 at this moment. I think I need to go a little lower. But I will take some time to do this. My source of black mosquito larve is vanishing and the mosquito larve I catch now are to big for the paro’s. They have daphnia on the menu now, will daphnia alone be suffisient for breeding them ?
Which other food source would you recomand me to use ?
This is the tank setup, both are similar. I am still trying to take a better picture of the pairs. The first is surely a pair, butt with the second I still have doubts.
You can see one of them, in the left corner underneath the filter. The temperature is 26°C is this ok for breeding, or does it need to be even higer ?
Any comments are welcome, I would realy like to do wat it takes for breeding them now.
Ha Maurice,
Jup, it is a small world. Ik geloof toch dat we hier moeten zitten om nakweekjes van deze mooie soorten te bemachtigen. Ik denk trouwens ook dat er nog maar weinig aquariumforums overblijven waar ik niet op zit 😀
Hello,
The shrimp are Neocaridina heteropoda “wild”
The PH level is 6.1-6.2 the paro’s I have were kept at an even higer value. For breading I will try to lower the PH to 5.2
Most plants have already died, like most of the crypto’s but the floating palnts and the ferns are doing well.The sewellia’s are indeed not the most suitable fish to keep with paro’s. There are 2 sewellia’s in the tank, these are offspring of only 2-3cm long. They have been there for some time and I just do not have the space to move them. Sewellia’s live in hillstream biotope. When in spring the meltwater causes the rivers to expand and flood other areas, the sewellia’s move to still waters to lay their eggs. I agree that they need oxygen, every fish needs oxygen. I have been debating this numourus times on other forums. The paro tank has quite still water and the sewellia’s will be moved to a tank more suitable as soon as I can determen the sex.
In the tank of the paro’s there are also a lot of shrimp, I believe these shrimp do live in the same biotope as the paro’s. And I hope these shrimp can be an additinal food source for the paro’s. Now I feed them black mosquito larve and Daphnia pulex or moina.
