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Chris,
from my brief experience with mbunas (<2yrs), the P. salousi made much friendlier tank-mates than the P. demasoni, although the demasoni were definitely a stunning blue (only get that with the grown male(s?) of the salousi, and sort of a black/blue negative to the demasoni's blue/black). Ditto to the interbreeding concerns.Don’t know if that’s useful at all :roll: but it’s pretty much the sum of my relevant mbuna experience!
Gary,
welcome to the forum! Check out the publications section of the forum. The PDF article with the species description from early this year has some good information on the natural environment of these little beauties — always useful info for a breeder, eh? — and early breeding reports from a British aquarium.Ste, you mentioned last summer (http://www.celestialpearldanio.com/viewtopic.php?t=119) about the Bolton Aquarium pioneers getting up to 150 eggs per female. Did they mean total over a life-time, or per spawn (although “spawn” may be a bit difficult to define for shallow discharge and flow-through wetland continuous spawners…)?
puffer,
not sure what part of NY you’re in, but some of your neighboring states and provinces (including our site host in Toronto) are represented in this forum. Check out the thread at http://www.celestialpearldanio.com/viewtopic.php?t=14. Also a bunch of NJ folk in the thread at http://www.celestialpearldanio.com/viewtopic.php?t=413.My brood (my family and my fishies) are in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Stop in some time — we can swap fish!
Couldn’t agree more about keeping healthy stock and avoiding inbreeding, although the shipping gets pricey. I’ve got over 50 fry that have made it at least three weeks — lost a dozen or two of the tiniest to predation by larger fry, adults, and I think some hydra also.
If you’re ever in the Minneapolis area — this goes for anyone on the forum! — stop by and we can trade stock and stories.
ste,
thanks a bunch for the description with the pictures! My daughter just picked up a pair of the common ones (P. pulcher). Similar breeding conditions as what you described? She has an upside down (3″?) flower pot with an opening broken out. Coconut shells work better as caves?Just to make you all feel better: I paid $25 each for my first two (store credit from all the ancistrus I turn in, but still…). By the time the next batch came in, they were down to $10 each — and this time the clerk knew me and only charged me for half of them!
Glenn, stunning planted tanks! Sorry if you’ve already mentioned this in another thread, but would you say something about the mosses on the back of your planted tanks? Are they afixed to something on the bottom of the tank, or part of a moss wall along the back?
Thanks for the great px! Keep ’em coming!
[Aside: bloodworms are midge larvae. Midges are a little different than mosquitos. They look a lot like mosquitos, but the adult flies don’t bite people. The ones whose larvae are sold as bloodworms are in the Chironomus genus.]
the hobby is down-right addicting! My daughter went with me to the state-wide annual fish club auction yesterday. What a blast! I missed a great looking Queen of Arabesque pleco (L260), and she missed a set of four scarlet badis she had her eye on (we didn’t bring enough money), but she came away with a pair of kribs and a pail full of ornaments, and I got a bucket of pleco wood and a bunch of food for cheap. Great fun, and my girl’s all fired up to breed fish now. She’s got endlers, plecos, corys, and now a pair of little peaceable cichlids, at least until they start to breed. Once the CPD fry are a couple weeks older, she’ll get a little shoal of them, too!
Here, here! to the fresh new wonders fish-watching brings each day!
alpha (a) in Greek is “ah”, like in all. Only Yanks like me brutalize a into a nasal aaaaa (sounds even better when a Brit mimics the way we say it!).
omicron (o) in Greek is I think formally supposed to be a shorter o than its big brother omega (o-micron = tiny/micro o, o-mega = giant/mega o), but I’ve also read that even by a couple thousand years ago, their pronunciations were blurring together toward the long o.
I’d say “tall-ose” (without biting the long o too hard — it is the micron-o) with emphasis on the first syllable, but that’s mostly a guess. If I found it spelled in Greek, then there would be accent marks to help with the emphasis.
