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A while back Tom told me these were C. compta. Since this time I have bred different batches on several occasions. Now the Marinho revision has me unsure as to whether they are C. compta or C. eigenmanni. I tried doing a scale count on a dead male and it seems to fit with the latter, however, I...
Currently there are a pair of angelfish, 5 Laetacara dorsigera, a couple of Copella arnoldi, some Nannostomus eques, Emperor tetras, black schultzi corydoras and Corydoras napoensis.
P. simulans can be quite skittish I find. Amazing fish though. Whenever I move mine from one tank to another to breed (or try to get them to breed again!) they tend to hide away. They're also very quick to hide when you try to catch them. I find, like most tetras, they're much more at ease when...
P. simulans can be quite skittish I find. Amazing fish though. Whenever I move mine from one tank to another to breed (or try to get them to breed again!) they tend to hide away. They're also very quick to hide when you try to catch them. I find, like most tetras, they're much more at ease when...
It certainly looks like pre-spawning behaviour. When they spawn, the male and female will move side by side, making almost an 's' shape with their bodies.
It was floating and a bit wedged into place near the surface. They spawn on the upper side of surfaces less than 1cm below the water level: this has included bogwood, glass ledge where I overfilled so water was about half a cm above the ledge, floating dried leaves (just below the surface)...