Dicrossus filamentosus

[anewbie]

True. I know of maybe a handful of cases of south american dwarf cichlids breaking the 5 year mark. Most in capitivity make it between 2 and 4 years. We can only guess for the wild, but I wouldn't expect more than 2 years there.

Interestingly there are plenty of smaller species, like cardinal tetras, that reached higher ages. The record I know of for those is 8 years. Just as much of an exception to the norm as a dwarf cichlid reaching 5+ years.

Well my emerald eye rasbora seem to live forever and when i look them up 8 years seems not impossible. Then we could talk about sterbai living 20 or 30 years and my little female nijjensi lived 5+ years and my ipiranga are older then the d. m. and in very good shape given the picture i posted the other day.

i guess it is all relative as most rams esp domestic rams are lucky to see two years. Still i kind of wish they would live longer ....

 

[MacZ]

Catfish are extremely long lived. And your N. nijsseni is for sure the exception to the rule.

 

[valevelo]

I bought 6 at the start of the year from Maidenhead and got 3 pairs from them, I had spawns but never saw wrigglers so moved two pairs on as others wanted to try breeding them. Water was 6.5pH

Stunning little fish with some very cool courtship behaviour. The male trying to corner the female whilst almost arching and twitching. Then the head down, near vertical swimming.

Poor 2nd photo but the display colours when courting are awesome