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Zapisto

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Hi,

I know it is not a cichlids but they look like them , and they are dwarf :)
anyway if it is not a good place erase / move the thread. :)

i had some experience with them before and actually breed them (i will say by accident).

Now i want work on them really.
so if you have any experience , info, on this littlle beauty feel free to share.

thanks
 

mummymonkey

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I kept the Burmese badis, Badis ruber for a while. A very interesting fish and as you say, very cichlid-like. I found after a while they would get very tame and take food direct from my fingers.
I bred them much as dwarf cichlids with the difference being the male looks after the eggs. (He gets jet black at this time). I had more fry when I removed the females after spawning and then removed the male when the free-swiming fry appeared.
I kept them in small colonies with a male and three females in an 2ft tank.

Male:
badis_male.jpg


Female:
badisfemale.jpg


Growing on the young:
badisrams.jpg
 

mummymonkey

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My water is soft and neutral to slightly alkaline. Only 1 or 2 degrees of KH and dH and pH about 7.0 - 7.5.
I'm not too particular about temperature in my tanks, anywhere between 75F - 78F and I leave the heater alone.
I forgot to say I couldn't get these fish to eat flake. Either frozen bloodworm or white/grindal worm. They especially liked small earthworms which they would eat whole. They ignored daphnia and brine shrimp unless they where really hungry. I suspect they eat only wormy things in the wild.
 

epl4978

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whats is a badis exactly like i know what they look like but what type of fish is it?
 

Cumb Dunt

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i kept Badis badis badis (the blue one) a while ago. i never spawned them, but they were certainly an interesting fish to watch (and very pretty). they are truly very chameleon-like.

i also could not get mine to take flake. but they did love their bloodworms and brine shrimp :)
 

epl4978

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wow thanks for the info thats another fish i would like to try now.
 

Lisachromis

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Ok, I've got a few badis that I picked up a year ago and I still don't know which species I have. Can anyone here ID them?

Badisspecies.jpg
 

Lisachromis

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Possibly, but I think it's a dwarf badis of some sort. They came in as wildcaughts. And they are still only 1" or so long (if that). They are in a tank with an adult male blue ram and they are dwarfed by that guy....
 

tjudy

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I am getting some scarlet badis next week. [ita]Badis ruber[/ita]? Anyone know a website dedicated to these fish?
 

Cumb Dunt

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Scarlet badis should be Dario dario.

Lisa, I don't think your fish looks like anything from Dario. I would say that it is most likely a Badis badis badis (as opposed to Badis badis burmanicus). Are the unpaired fins bright, irridescent blue?

http://www.g-hoener.de/images/11 Zwerbuntbarsch/Badis_badis_n_c.jpg

That looks exactly like your fish's hindquarters to me :)

(These fish have the coolest taxonomy, BTW, in ANY fish, IMHO :))
 

Lisachromis

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I don't recall seeing bluish highlights in the unpaired fins, but I'll check the next time I see them 'fired up'. I seem to recall them being reddish. They tend to stay hidden and a plainish grey fish for the most part. My luck is I probably have only one sex!
 

Cumb Dunt

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They could all be females.

Females stay in the 1-1.5" range and are the same color as the males, albeit substantially subdued.
 

retro_gk

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Zapisto said:
The Nandidae group of fishes, native to South America, the West Indies, Africa and India, comprises several species, ...

text by M. J. Parry


A minor correction...

Badids are no longer classified as Nandids, they are now in their own family, Badidae


@Lisachromis, your fish looks like a female B. badis
 

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