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I use a long necked bottle to harvest the eels; fill the bottle whit vinegar and eels up to the neck, put a dot of clean filter wool on top, and carefully fill the neck whit RO-water. a half hour later most of the eels are in the water, of course some vinegar will leach in, butt no significant amounts…
my only theory is that somehow an toxic mould got in to the culture, and trough de eels in to the fish. no idea if that’s actually possible..
they make excellent fish food. However you should be careful when collecting them. they prefer standing shallow dirty water, which makes also an ideal habitat for bacteria that can make you :sick: . so make sure you wash the larvae and your hands thoroughly.
I think you have to be German, to detect any logic in the current distribution system.
it may be very well fit for the German tradition and culture, but it just seems unnecessarily complex and inefficient to me.in an open system where seekers and senders can find each other directly, I think its much easier to sell great numbers of young Paros. and find breeders across the borders.
Thank you gentlemen,
I agree Peter, consuming rare fish is not right. however I also think that preserving species is more than just multiply them.
Hello all,
unfortunately taking pictures is for me nearly impossible, because of a lack of skill, equipment, and light in the tank. 🙁 they are cute but small (12 -18 mm SL), so no breeding for them this summer I think.
at the IGL meeting I bought a pair P. quindecim and a pair P pahuensis. Truly lovely fish 🙂 which made me think; isn’t it a waste to keep them hidden in small breeding tanks, where I only look at them 3-4 times a week to make sure that they are okay… wouldn’t it be much nicer to be able to see them all day swimming around in the living room tank….
breeding, or at least surviving fry, is impossible. but I could put a pair in a breeding tank whenever I want. It might even be better not to breed them all the time, but give them a period of rest. :dry:
They would share a 80cm tank whit 12 Trigonistigma hengeli, 6 Hyalobagrus flavus, and 3 Caridina multidenta.
what do you think of it? and which species would you put in there? P cf Bintan(5), P pahuensis (1/1), P quidecim (1/1) or/and P ornaticauda (9)
I have 70 liter barrel with heater, after refilling the barrel ( approximately every 10 days) I adjust the pH using oak bark extract.
getting the water out of the barrel and throwing it in to the tank, aerates it enough I think. :unsure:
everyone has those days that you are quite happy to find some time to breath.
to keep water changes going I make sure that there is always prepared RO water ready to use, this way its never more than an 5 minute job.I’m on my way to pick up a group parosphromenus. 🙂 they are sold as P ornaticauda so I am wondering what they look like. I should immediately be able to see if they are P ornaticauda, right? I hope to post some photos of the fish in their new home tonight.
B) the beauty of chaos. it must be nice to see the fish swimming trough those tanks.
what is the brown stringy stuff on the bottom?
Hello Peter and Stefanie,
The glass worm are sold in a wet newspaper, its quite a large quantity (100grams of worms), so I throw them in a bucket rainwater and keep them outside. I order them from a killifish breeder who made a small business out of selling fish, eggs and supplies.I could ask him about the origin, but so far I never had problems whit those.
I never use the normal plastic bags of life food, and reading all this makes me sure to keep it that way.
Most time of the year I can catch enough food whit all the ditches in the area. somehow I never catch a lot of glass worms despite massive amounts of Daphnia and Cyclops.@ Sverting,thnx! They look nice indeed, I’ll see if I can find them.
back ontopic,
I was ordering some glass worms, and came up whit some questions.
what kind of filter do you use? I came across some small air driven sponge filters. would they be useful?
now I don’t use any filter but change 50% of the water twice a week.Would vinegar eels be eaten (by fry)? I used those in the past to feed fry of Pseudomugil en Oryzias which stay close to the surface just like the eels. But I think Paro fry stays closer to the bottom of the tank?
Sorry, I should have made myself more clear. :blush:
There are many hardy plants that grow under various conditions. Also in nature some plants grow in acidic conditions, as shown by this link. So its definitely possible to grow plants in water whit a low pH. However for most (sub)tropical aquariumplants the ideal pH is somewhere between 6 and 7. below pH 6 plants usually grow significantly worse. Lack of light, tannic acids and tannins make blackwater also less suitable for plants.
for example this is Microsorum trident in the planted community tank (pH 6.5);
the same plants are growing in the 10liter tank, but those are coming from a tank with pH 5.0.
since C. cordata is quite a hard to find plant here I prefer to keep it under the best conditions I can offer. As a result it started to bloom B) :
Stefanie, the Pangio semicincta is like Houdini. I kept them in this tank until I changed the substrate. Their caudal fins where occasionally nipped by the red tail puffers so they should be moved anyway. somehow this little fellow stayed hidden in a completely emptied tank, and every time I tried to catch him, he disappeared. Until I cleaned out the filter last week and I found him, apparently he could not only get in there but also out again… :huh:
thnx for your reply,
I’ll order some glassworm.
The pH would go down if I wouldn’t do a water change twice a week. I use oak extract to lower the pH.
The Cryptocoryne is C cordata var. blassi, its to big voor the small tank, and I did not use sand or gravel on the bottom of the tank. besides a pH below 6 isn’t suitable for most plants.
