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No blackwater is not required for domestics to have colour. Youth could be a factor for paleness as well as stress and sex. It is hard to tell if it is 1 inch or 2 1/2 inch from picture though i lean to the 1 inch range. If that is the case it will develop colours later - did the 'breeder' show...
Some pictures of two aquariums during water change. The first is the one that started this thread which has 5 norberts (4 males and 1 female) and a few wavarni (i'd move them if they would jump into the net), cardinals emeral rasbora and otto. The nobert were purchased around 18 to 20 months ago...
Has anyone kept Poecilocharax weitzmani and if so any comments on them - also do they hang high or low and show a lot of movement or mostly idle ?
[ok 5 minute of reading and they love the bottom and guard their frys so they can eat them when they start swimming]. Still any comment from people...
Not to beg the question but why on tom's page is a sp ipiranga listed as a sep species but the various colour morph of megastoma listed as the same species. Has there been dna testing that confirm all the different catch location like sp "leticia" and sp "kelleri" are the same species or are...
I believe the f1 with the red fin is a female. The male even at 1/2 inch drop the lateral line and that one clearly has retained the lateral line. I might be wrong and the fish might be able to drop and display the line at will. The other confusing thing (to me) is all the ones with lateral line...
Behind the large java fern i have an area of the tank that is emersed - at one time i thought of putting frogs there but was paranoid they would muck with the fishes but i did manage to get this guy growing:
Wetspot has a few megastoma for sale (wc but unclear if red specs or yellow specs) but i was comparing pictures to my ipiranga and other then the ipiranga having blue specs the form, shape and colouring of the fishes look very similar. In my naive way i would almost thing the ipirgana is a blue...
Two updated picture - this is using a different technique - shining a flashlight on the fish to bring out the colours - the male and an f1 - not sure if the f1 is male or female it is about 1/4 to 1/6 size of the male:
The red fins draws attention without the extra lighting but the colour of...
My a. sp ortegai male did the same. I had to remove the females and when i removed them the male took over caring for the young for a few days but after a couple of days lost interest.
Been so quiet i thought i would post a couple of images I took the past week or so - this is a java fern gone wild (water level is approx 18 inch)
and aquarium i setup about 3 months ago - the plants are still growing in - i figure 2 years and they should be nice and dense just in time for...
Yea but again i've not found anyone who kept them in a large tank still I suspect they are like the dm and would require 12+ foot for more then 1 pair. Oh well...