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[quote=”Davy” post=3130]Tks Stefanie but is it not mine![/quote]
I know, I read it 😉 – but it makes no difference!
Hello, Davy,
how can it be cold in the east of France when it is wonderfully warm and sunny in the west of Germany 😉 ???
Thanks for the nice Easter wishes – hope you all had wonderful days, too.
Today I saw him shortly and only got two or three mediocre photos – but I think he turns out more and more to be a normal nagyi male – one with a deeper reddish brown than normal, perhaps. But his father (I assume now my nagyi male is his father, indeed) also showed a strong reddish tinge when younger.
The young in question:
And his probable father, one year ago:
I can only tell from my expercience that I would never keep two paro species together in one tank. Not even species that look extremely different.
I have seen my quindecim male mating with a female of unknown species (but surely not quindecim). And I have seen a big, well grown pahuensis-female heavily courting a rubrimontis male which I provisionally put together in one tank for one day. And I think that nearly no species look more different then pahuensis and rubrimontis – they represent two ends of the scale of possible appearance in paros.I suppose the species boundaries in most paros are defined mainly by habitat barriers. Appearance (and/or) behaviour (different courtship display) may possibly be the barrier only in sympatric species. That’s my impression – but I’m no expert.
[quote=”Little” post=3093]The first Nagyi that showed up in this country earlier this year looked very similar to the photo that Helene posted above. That’s what I recognize as Nagyi.[/quote]
That’s what I think. And I don’t think that the typical nagyi which Helene showed resembles the fish Rod shows us.
But Rod – they are very nice, whatever they are!
No – I am not good in determining, the same as Helene states for herself – but to me they are not nagyi, definitely not.
[quote=”helene” post=3086]I am not sure why they should not be nagyi.[/quote]
First the colouration – with which you might be right, it might be the photo. It’s much too blue. Second, the body shape, to me they seem much to long and slender to be nagyi, which are stouter even as young fish. Third, the form of the ventrals, not good to be seen – but what I see doesn’t seem so short and rounded to me like it should in nagyi. And last, the form of the anal fin of the female doesn’t resemble that of nagyi – in my opinion. It is much to broad and rounded, forming nearly a half circle.
Whether its a nagyi ‘kuantan’ or ‘cherating’ depends on the colour of the spots in the caudal fin. If they are clearly white its kuantan ….
…. or Pekan Nenasi ….
Hello, Dorothee,
they eat algae and detritus, e.g., dead leaves of water plants, oak and beech leaves on the ground, and – what’s very important I think – they eat dead mosquito larvae or other leftover of live food which is no longer alive … 😉
I feed them only tiny bits of food tabs from time to time – more to get an opportunity to “count” them than to feed them – to lure them out of their hides and to see how many young and old shrimps are in the tank.
I got mine from here – I think it’s the same shop you mentioned. I’m afraid I advertised them too much ……. the simoni-shrimps are out of stock at the moment …..
[quote=”7 Zwerge” post=3064]Hi Stefanie,
of course you are right!
But I find other ways to save energy and I get my energy from Energiewerke Schönau, who only sell energy from nenewably sources (means they spend the money they earn in building renewable sources of energy),and it costs therefore a little bit more.
[/quote]That’s what I also do – additionally…….. Another provider, but 100% eco-power.
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And whats the “good” with both filterless methods? Just saving energie and costs for buying machines? [/quote]Hi, Dorothee,
“just saving energy” is no “just” to me. It’s the small things that matter ………. and having about 12 almost technique-free tanks means having saved 12 filters and heaters – and their energy consumption. Imagine how many aquariums we have worldwide – their energy consumption definitely is not “just” ……….. Of course you can not have every kind of tank (and fish) without any technique. For me it’s the decision then to have no such tanks and no such fish ……… I do not like keeping any living creature (be it plant or animal) if it can only be managed with great technical effort. Seems somehow counterproductive and inconsistent to me – wasting energy (and thus – natural ressources) to save plants/animals which lose their natural environment by human exploiting of natural ressources …..
