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Thank you, Helene! This is very interesting – it’s only on your photos that I have seen so very young paros. I am not sure if there are any such photos in the web at all. So – please carry on!
[quote=”Peter Finke” post=2220]
Speaking of pure rain-water I meant not to mix it up with tap water or something else.[/quote]Ah, ok. That’s what I do – take only rain water, which here always has a pH of 6.0 (I measure it regularly when preparing the water for the change).
I change about one third of the water regularly every weekend. It’s part of my to-do-list on weekends ……. so I don’t question it, just do it. Like doing the laundry ……… (But much more fun!!)
There is a (very interesting!!) thread about blackwater at the IGL-forum, primary initialized by my question about what might have happend to my P. nagyi-clutch …….. I was critized there when I dared to show my astonishment about the serious advice to change more than 50% every week ….. (which, by the way, contradicts the recommendations given in the species descriptions on the IGL homepage….)
Again: It was no test, I’m not questioning anyone’s determination skills …………
(I promise: I surely will never again dare to be anything but totally serious here in this forum. If this had been a test about some people being able to see such a question with a twinkle in their eyes – failed 🙁 )
Dear Peter – don’t take it that seriously.
I already said that these fish are still very young (and shy) and that I only have them since a few days. And that thus I couldn’t make better photos.
And this was the reason that made me think about this little riddle – I can’t show clear species photos now – so maybe you like to try to identify the fish by bad photos. A funny little riddle ……… no serious test of your determination skills …………
So the complaint about bad photos is surely right in many cases – but very inappropriate here……..
Something has gained my attention before, and my impression has been confirmed when I got two new paro pairs of different species some days ago:
I reported about my 4 paros (Thread “New paros at my home”) I received from trade which all came out to be females. Due to this it is not possible to determine form or species. What attracted my attention was the fact that all four individuals never (and I mean never!) show this slowly swaying up and down along the axis of the eyes which is so typical.
Watching my new paros confirmed this observation: P. nagyi, pahuensis, quindecim – all show this slow seesawing movement, even in this short time I have them. I think the females do it a bit more often than the males. But I have never seen one of the four single “girls” doing this.Now – is it a behaviour typical only for some species/ forms? Or is it a behaviour only shown when different sexes are together?
Some of you also have only males/females of certain species – have you observed the same? Do your fish all show the seesawing movement – no matter if the different sex is around?[quote=”bartian” post=2196]P. pahuensis if you ask me… Look at body shape, ventrals and the black blotch in the dorsal fin. Wait for a better picture.[/quote]
You are right, Bartian. I bought them as pahuensis, I saw pictures of the adults which were doubtlessly pahuensis – and I have no reason to misbelieve the breeders (who, by the way, do not even have anjunganensis – as far as I know. So even the risk of a mistaking can be excluded))
[quote=”Peter Finke” post=2194][quote=”Stefanie” post=2191][quote=”Sverting” post=2190]P. anjunganensis.[/quote]
That’s what I would have said – looking at that single picture.
But it’s not anjunganensis.[/quote]I don’t understand, as probably Sverting does. This is anjunganensis and nothing else.[/quote]
If this is right, I have to ask Anne and Thorsten why they gave me anjunganensis instead of pahuensis……………
They are still shy and secretive, so it’s a bit difficult to show better photos:
[quote=”Sverting” post=2190]P. anjunganensis.[/quote]
That’s what I would have said – looking at that single picture.
But it’s not anjunganensis.
Helene, nice photos! (Hope I will see some of these nice mini-nagyi in my tank too, one day)
For me it’s very interesting that it goes that well – so many fish of one species in one tank, and they’re breeding! What you tell doesn’t sound as if there was much aggression?Concerning the Boraras ………… I think they are real “fry-catchers”. I have B. maculatus in my Badis kanabos tank – and I had a lot of fry when the pair was alone. Since I put the Boraras in that tank, there are only very few fry – although the male Badis is breeding …. and breeding …. and breeding …. I am not worried about this, because I still have more fry of Badis kanabos than interested aquarists …. But never trust the Boraras ……..
Nothing new about my four unnamed girls……….
……. but another four new paros at my home!! This time no doubt about species or sex.
The male of one of the new pairs, no need to tell which species:
And the only photo I could get of the male of the other new pair, still very small and shy – a bit of a riddle – let’s see if you can tell the species (and it’s a species, not a form):
Sverting, are you sure you posted the right link? Maybe I’m blind – but I don’t see any paros in this video ………. at least there are no visible shapes and fin colourations ……….. I see some striped fish darting around, but to me they seem to be barbs or something ………
