| These fish have a big attitude. Feed them lots of live food, do regular water changes, keep the male and female apart. Put a divider in the tank so they can see each other, and do lots of showing off. Do this for a couple of weeks and get ready for a treat. Go easy on the peat and the mops so they can not just dive in and disappear while spawning. Pull up a chair, pull out the divider, and watch the spawning. If you have done as I did for this video, you can finally see exactly how these fish spawn. The tank is a 5 1/2 gallon. |
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Adult fish are fed live blackworms, daphnia, some baby brine shrimp,
mosquito larvae, and frozen brine shrimp and frozen bloodworms. Not
all at the same time, of course.I feed blackworms for about 3 weeks,
then the frozen brine shrimp and frozen
bloodworms for 1-2 weeks. Then back to the blackworms. Mosquito larvae
and daphnia are fed when available.
Fry when they first hatch. I use to always start right up with baby brine shrimp. With a lot of experimenting I have changed this. I now mix a little baby brine shrimp with a lot of microworms, and if I have them, paramecium. I purchased some paramecium at the Tampa AKA Convention 2006. I have had them before, but was never able to keep them going. I will be forever indebted to the individual that sold them to me. He took a great deal of time to describe to me exactly how to raise, and continue to raise paramecium. I do not want to put his name down for the spammers to grab, but if you were at the convention you know who it was. A Rose is a Rose so to speak. I now add a dropper full or more of paramecium to go along with any feedings of microworms. Even newly hatched large fry like Blue Gularis will stuff themselves with paramecium. It makes a difference. I get more fry out of a hatch..
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