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Oh, I’m sorry – it’s my mistake. German and English beautifully mixed …… at least in my head.
Yes, Bambus in German is bamboo in English. The hollow canes make good caves for many fishes – my Pseudosphromenus like it, and some Badis (e.g, singenensis) species, too.
The bamboo has to be completely dry. If you cut it just behind the leaf nodes, you get a cave which is closed at one end. Before putting it into the tank, you have to water it until it sinks – or rather a bit longer.
The female turns golden brown, as I said, throat and belly shimmering silvery white, but her dorsal and anal fin turn from transparent to dark.
Again, not sharp – sorry. But maybe worth showing?
[quote=”helene” post=1496]
If you look at the last photo in the article, does the fish not show actually the same as you are describing (at least in terms of the iridiscent that you see), Stefanie ?[/quote]Yes, Helene, that’s right. That’s what I mean.
I think this feature is worth being mentioned.By the way: There’s something promising going on in my tank ……… Since the early morning my male showed the brightest display with continuous “sexy eyes”, while the female seemed much more interested and accommodating, and showing a more rounded belly.
Just half an hour ago I observed the male repeatedly fetching air from the surface and returning to a bambus cane lying on the ground, concealed with leaves. Then unexpectedly the female appeared out of the leaf litter and entered the bambus cane, followed by the male. And there they are ………
The female had changed her colouration, not into pale, but into a transparent golden bronze-brown without stripes.Good Morning,
and thank you, Peter.
I know the differences between pigment and structural colouration from ornithology (e.g.,hummingbirds are a wonderful example for structural colours).
Thus, I’m afraid, your post doesn’t answer my question ….. :unsure: It was not “why” is my male coloured like this – but is this colouration known for P. nagyi, at least for the form Pekan Nenasi? I have not seen it mentioned anywhere – maybe it should be added to the description. And – is it unique in Pekan Nenasi, or do the forms from Cherating and Kuantan also show it?
Oh – I just see it’s only a few minutes til the turn of the year.
Let me wish you a happy and healthy New Year 2013!!!
May I repeat my question from post 1474 in this thread?
Today again I recognized that the lower half of the horizontally divided body colouration of the male is not black, as described. It seems to be black when not illuminated in the right angle – but it is as iridiscent as the pectoral fins actually.
You can suggestively see this on the last three pictures in post 1480.Here are two more photos, not quite sharp – but you can see well enough what I mean:
I haven’t seen this on any of the nagyi-pictures I have seen yet – and I didn’t find it mentioned in any of the descriptions I’ve read.
Is this a feature only of the form from Pekan Nenasi – or do all nagyi-males show this?[quote=”helene” post=1482]These are wonderful photoes, Stefanie. I would like to use them at the species page for Nagyi with your credentials 🙂 .. will you give your permission for that ?[/quote]
With pleasure!
I found another web shop who ships it’s goods in the whole EU at reasonable prizes.
They offer even smaller lots of live food and also have Lumbriculus variegatus in their product range. Click here.
Maybe this is another useful address for the “weblinks” section.
Something else has caught my eye: I have never noticed – on any of the P. nagyi photos I have seen – that the male’s chin and throat is also shimmering in the same iridescent emerald green as the pectoral fins. I just noticed it on some photos of my male. The colouration reaches the ends of the gil covers.
Is this a feature in all nagyi-males, or is it only to be seen in the Pekan Nenasi form?
[quote=”bartian” post=1471] I’ll give it a try when I have found a good growing substrate.[/quote]
Bartian, on the website where you can order the starting population they recommend not to use any organic material as ground cover for the breeding tank, but synthetic material, such as filter material or a foam mat.
[quote=”bartian” post=1461]These are excellent foods! I bred them for some time but lost them. Paros go crazy for it.
It’s a pity they are rare in the Netherlands, I can’t find a new starting population.[/quote]
I don’t know whether it’s allowed to post such a link here – please delete it, if not.
Here you can get a new starting population – I suppose it’s no problem for them to send it to the Netherlands.
For Peter: Zuchtanleitung u.a.
Ah, I see, Helene.
These are peat fibres.
If we use the word sphagnum in German, we talk about the living green moss – which later decomposes to peat. I was interested in using it in an aquarium.
Yes, that’s what I thought!
Please share your further observations, it will be interesting in not only one aspect.
Helene, do you already have experience in keeping sphagnum moss submerse? I understand you used living, green sphagnum? Does it stay green and vivid for long, being totally under water?
I have thought about the idea of using sphagnum as green pads on the ground of a paro tank before … the water conditions should be very suitable, but I wasn’t sure how it likes it being completely submerged.
