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Hi!
I prefer not to make postshipping because I had very bad experience with that from France and in my town, where only the national post is here, no UPS and so on, but I can go to Lille or to Calais, at the Eurostar station, to give the fishes. It will be very expensive for you for a few fishes and it is perhaps better to organize that from for Germany for a big lot of fishes and many people.
You must also take account – not to harm you -of the british paranoia with living beings imports. I don’t know if they let you bring them back with the train, and you will have to pass controls like in an airport. This frontier is the worst I know in Europe since the east-wall is down. Perhaps have other people experience with that. The ornaticauda have found a good aquarist in France.
Stay in touch about that.“They do not like Daphnia.”
Yes, they can catch only the very little one, or moina daphnias, which are “softer”, without dick crust and spines. Moinas are rare in France and difficult to breed a long time. According the way you are breeding daphnias, can be that other, more interessant food is there, perhaps rotifer, cyclops and so on. P. linkei is a bit taller-mouthed as the other species and not so selective with daphnias, but you can’t rely only on daphnias.Hi!
I’m a french member of the CIL, too, and I have young (subadults) P. linkei in excess. I am living in northern France. Where are you?
I don’t think you can keep your daphnees and moskitos breeding going on in winter, so, you must find another solution for this time.
You can’t not be satisfied with a good water now, you must have a regular water supply of the same quality, and hartness must be relevant, too, it’s the more important and difficult. Osmosis-water from the pet-shops is’nt good enough, with exception, I mess always more than 50 microsiemens with it. You can only mess very low harness with an electronic device ph-meter, und you have to rework pet-shop water or to have your own device for making good water, or becoming good rainwater.
That and that and that make money to spend, and always caring. Paro don’t forgive carelessness, or carelessness don’t spare paros
You can’t keep other fish species with paros, so long you will have them breeding, what is a must for paros aquaristen!If you come in the CIL meeting in Blois in september, we could meet there. If not, perhaps are people coming who are next your hometown.
If you can convince me before september that you can do it right, and you be an aquarist-born genius, you can have paros from me. I began in the age of 13.but needed many years to learn.
First breeding colisa lalia with 14. Only one youngfish …
I have learned by experience, by reading and from older club-members which were very good and knew to share what they knew. First thing I learned was that this or that species was too difficult, and that I must wait before having responsbly it in my tankFirst, how long have you experience , and with what sort of fishes?
Do you wrigt english yourself?
We can speak french at my private mail: hugues.vanbesien@yahoo.frwith kind regards
Hugues
Hi,
Yes, I mean Asellus aquaticus. You have to catch the animals and only them, or to have them by a live food supplier, because you must care not to bring dangerous planaria (Polycoelis) or hydra with the stones, the wood or the leaves, that are deadly for eggs and/or jungfishes.
There is a good live food breeder in elsass (http://www.aqualiment.com/v2/), but the web pages are in french, and I don’t know if they send parcels to germany.There is another freshwater invertebrate species, “shrimp”, which could live in our tanks, the gammarus, but it can bring fish diseases and I never succeed to let him live long or to breed in warm water tanks, and it’s not so good a cleaner as the asellus. Asellus are not very good algae browser, but “work” the dead leaves and so on, so that it could be he decompose by other cleaners like snails and they clean rest of food too.
Hugues
Hi, all paro-friends
Asella do live in my paro tanks. The european one. They don’t breed because they need winter conditions for that, but do their work as cleaners, and live long although I seldom see them but for I change the tank, remove wood, leaves and so on. They don’t damage fish or eggs. They are too tough and big to be eaten.
Surprisingly, I have snails too, Melanoïdes tuberculata. This species is wiped out when ph is extremly weak, but can stand in most of my tank about ph 5 or more. No damage.
Physa (I don’t know if I have european species which invades with wild food or exotics) is sometimes here too.
I always “seed” my tanks with daphnia and wild plankton before I set the fishes, and regularly in summer. daphnia don’t stand long and don’t breed.
Greetings,
Hugues, from France
hallo again!
I see you are in Amersfoort. I will be driving near Amersfoort on the highway A28, coming from direction Breda / Utrecht and going farther to the E37 / E233 (Hogeveen).
Hugues
Hi, Bartian
I live in northern France, in Douai, near Lille/Rijsel and from Belgium, and i go from time to time to the netherlands.
I have now a number of young p. LINKEI and I am seeking someone who is interested.
I am traveling through Netherlands direction german friesland at 27 december. grosso modo from Breda naar winschoten. Perhaps we could see us on the highway, at a precise time, because I cannot wait. I must be at 19h00 in Nordfriesland
I can bring my fishes but I can’t receive fishes, because I am 8 days on the road afterthat.
So, it depends where you are in the netherlands.Hugues
Hallo again!
(thank you for you private answer, too)
I tried once, but here they are difficult too find and to keep, and I don’t see a great advantage /artemias, but for the little size perhaps. For young fishes, I have also a sort of “big” freshwater infusiora Jürgen Ende in Germany gives me, which is easy to keep and to breed, with very much animals you can see with the naked eye in a little bottle and sometimes develop later in the tank. That can I send you, too.Hugues
Hallo!
In the summer, I give daphnia and moskito larvae I fish in a little pond (1,5 x 0,4 x 0,5) I created in my garden, it is perfect and give me always breeding (in the course of time P. sp allani, ornaticauda, linkei, sp bintan). I try to catch the little rafts with moskito eggs and to put them in the aquarium, because very young larvae are the best food. The only potential problem ist to avoid planaries and hydrae … a very acidic water helps for that. In these catches are also cyclops and so on, food more rich than daphnias, and very little animals too, that young fishes can eat
All the time and in winter especially, i give artemias, but it’s make that the water is soon not so soft as it should be, in a very short time from 30-40 microsiemen to 60-70, that’s makes more waterchange necessary. I notice too that artemia feeding can cause ‘accidents” by young fishes at the age whan they begin to grow colored, and artemias are no more rich when they are older than 2-3 days.
So, in the winter, main fod are bloodworms and tubifex. P. Finke wrote on the homepage that these foods are not without risk, but i prevent them by having the tubifex a long time in very clean water (1 cm), With waterchange each day, and giving them spirulin. I take only the littlest worms to feed. Tubifex on this way can be kept a long time if not to hot (circa 15°). With bloodworms, I do the same, but giving no food to the worms and taking only the littlest. Problem: bloodworms can be kept alive so long, even in cold conditions in fridge.
But principal, I am an extensive breeder, tanks are jungles of ceratopteris, microsorium, anubias, floating plants, I never bring the mulm away by waterchanging and there is always plankton in them.
I tried to produce moinas but could not keep them in the long time, always lost if not daily feed, or out not known reasons, cultures were always poor, and I can find them any more. The first I bring back from Germany. (I am living in northern France). I think moinas is very superior to other foods, but moskitos larvae.
I never use frozen food.
“collembols” (german “springschwanze?) could be interessant too, but they are too many floating plants in my thanks for paros catching them. The same with drosophilae, which are too big and paros are not surface feedersp.
I think that in tanks of this kind, shrimps are a great danger for eggs, if not for fishes, and you can never get lose of them.
With kind regards,
Hugues
