Dicrossus maculatus

[rasmusW]

Thanks for the heads up.
I’m in denmark, so i don’t think I’ll get fish from them.

-r

 

[anewbie]

Thanks for the heads up.
I’m in denmark, so i don’t think I’ll get fish from them.

-r

Yea that would be difficult. On the bright side denmark is nice ! Spent a bit of time in copenhagan with a friend who lives there - he loves beer.

 

[rasmusW]

Hehehe… Thanks, yeah! We do have a few good ones.

-r

 

[rasmusW]

I have set up the tank. Now I just need to get hold of the fish.

Future stock (hopefully): a pair/trio of d. Maculatus and 10-15 n. Eques.

Here is the tank. It need glass cleanup, a bit more water and a few leaves.

-r

 

[anewbie]

More hiding places given their size - mine hide in the grass and under leaves. I have a large amount of 3 inch tall grass in my aquarium. The grass is one of the micro swords i forget which - i only purchased one tiny plant but after a few months it had spread everywhere....

 

[rasmusW]

It’s been planted within the last week and some of it today. So hopefully it will all grow in, in the coming months.

-r

 

[Mike Wise]

It seem a bit bright to me. I would add some floating plants if it were my tank. Then again, give it a few months and the Pistia in it will cover the entire surface.

 

[anewbie]

It seem a bit bright to me. I would add some floating plants if it were my tank. Then again, give it a few months and the Pistia in it will cover the entire surface.

Oddly i've not had much success with water lettuce in my black water aquariums. If i can get frobit to group up tight enough so it produces emersed leaves it does well but then if i thin it and the leaves get wet the melt and it takes a long time to produce the other type of leaves (i'm reluctant to call them submersed but they sit on the water). Weird.

 

[rasmusW]

Thanks Mike. Yeah! I hope that all the plants will “fill in the blanks” over time.
I do have a bit more pistia in another tank, i can move to this one.

-r

 

[Hellfishguy]

The fish would appreciate a layer of leaf litter. My Dicrossus would spend most of the day flipping over leaves in search of snacks.

 

[rasmusW]

The fish would appreciate a layer of leaf litter. My Dicrossus would spend most of the day flipping over leaves in search of snacks.

Thanks for your input.
It’s already on the list of things to be done.

-r

 

[Mike Wise]

If one covers their tank top Pistia doesn't grow well. It doesn't like water on the surface of it leaves (cover pushes leave lower into the water) or water dripping on to the leaves. It grows best in open-top tanks.

 

[rasmusW]

Today i recieved a trio of these. Sadly not long after they where released in the tank one of them started gasping for air and all in all was swimming oddly or more darting around. I netted it out into a small container and added an airstone. It died shortly after.

It might have been my eager and excitement to get them into the tank that killed it. Bugger….

The remaining two looks fine. And is also swimming and eating well.

Hopefully they are a pair, though something tells me its both males.

Here is some crappy pictures of all three.

-r

 

[MacZ]

Reflecting scales in the face... Definitely male.

 

[rasmusW]

Sorry for the double up on some of the pictures.
Both of the two remaining have a bit of iridescent blue in the face. The biggest of them also shows a bit red.
The dead one was the one that mostly looked like a female.

-time will tell, but it sounds like I will be searching for a female or two.

-r

 

[rasmusW]

Damn it. Today, I lost another one.
No visible signs of illness (-atleast for me). It was swimming nicely and eating good too.

-r

 

[rasmusW]

Aaaand the last one is dead aswell.
I netted and added it to a smaller tank while I figured out what to do next. I also had a planaria outbreak in the tank, so that i also have to fix.

-r

 

[KenL]

Aaaand the last one is dead aswell.
I netted and added it to a smaller tank while I figured out what to do next. I also had a planaria outbreak in the tank, so that i also have to fix.

-r

Planaria = overfeeding in my experience.

Only ever seen them when I was attempting to grow out six discus. This was despite changing about 25% of the water 3 times a week.

 

[rasmusW]

I think they came in with some plants i took from my garden pond.
Maybe thats not planaria, then. I had these leech like flat worms.

-r

 

[KenL]

I think they came in with some plants i took from my garden pond.
Maybe thats not planaria, then. I had these leech like flat worms.

-r

Perhaps taking things in from the “wild” introduced something that killed your fish?

Could you ask the people that you bought them from have also had unexplained deaths?