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One female has visible eggs beneath the skin, when fed ;].
Females of this form have coloured unpaired fins, with an exception of tail.
Fingers crossed !:D
Actually, what You need is fine sand at the bottom. In small aquaria, where the chemistry is unstable each decaying particulate create greater strain on the filtration. If the substrate consists of bigger stones, than each particle finds its way beneath the gravel and decomposes there. You don’t want that. This creates small timebombs of amonia. With fine sand there is no place for filth “to hide”, and so it decomposes in a more controlled way.
Even in the low pH there are some bacteria alive. In the sulfur stream in Spain, where the pH was below 2 (!) scientists found colonies of algae and bacteria. So don’t sweat it. There is some filtration.
Mine, and Martins fish are clearly different. The tail stripe is much thinner.
This has similar fins to P. nagyi, with the P. harveyi’s body. (I used photos from the site for comparison)
Firstly I woul ask myself if the forked tail is a result of genes, or some incident in the childhood. It may be, that this was made be damaging the fin ray.
Second, there is a question of the species. They look quite harveyi-sh to me.
Paros are scared shitless, but all seems to be ok. Some even hunted for food.
I found this video on YT, these fish show very similar size, shape and colouring of the fins to my Paros.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW3leiGsRU4[/youtube]Somehow my dog found it’s way to my room when I was at university, and started “playing” with the driftwood. When the dust drops I will asses losses.
I don’t know if Aquael PATmini is availible in Your country, but in my opinion it is a good filter for small aquarium. Highly adjustable flow rate is nice, and the filter itself is very,very small. In my opinion using air powered filter is good, when You have many tanks on a shelf, since the power input will be small as opposed to electric turbines, but the air pumps are noisy, even when producer says they should be silent.
I would propose two Aquael filters:
FAN MIKRO Plus – [X}
PAT MINI – [X]In Poland PAT MINI costs about 6 Euros.
Try glass worms. They eat it gladly, and the food can live for a day with Your fish. I feed my paros every second day, becouse there are always some uneaten larvae.
With white worms it’s better to underfeed slightly, than overfeed, since the overdose will die and decompose.The pH will go down with time, all You need to do is let the leaves rot.
Do You have some kind of filtration? You probably are unable to have any Lemna, becouse of biofilm on the water. There are small filtres with skimmer, it might solve the problem.
Beautifull C. vendtii on the first photo. It’s a shame they haven’t found their way into this tank. They would make an ideal cover.
There are some other losses our hobby creates.
So I decided to share my other observations.
The difference between showing off to another male and the female:
Male-male:
-Fish swim around each other slowly, it is like two wolfes trying to stare each other down. The body becomes pale, but fins are dark.Male-female:
-Female tries to avoid any problems, but male becomes as dark as it gets and jumps before her every time she changes her direction. The male-female situation looks more agressive, like delinquent trying to impress a bypassing lady.
