L25 Red Scarlet
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You can easily feed him with any sinking tablet that desintegrate into powder. Sera Viformo for example, if you have it in the State. These little guys (back in 2009) were mad about Sera Viformo crushed with red mosquito larvae :
Another good trick to grow them properly is to vary the feeding. When I had my breeding pair, and the 70 fries I lead to 6 months (before giving them to friends), I fed them with a mix paste of crushed krill, shrimps, pangasius filets, red mosquito larvae (for the red colour and the smell, their got weird about it)...
here above, you can see my alpha male eating an Hikari Chips algae wafer
Another good trick to grow them properly is to vary the feeding. When I had my breeding pair, and the 70 fries I lead to 6 months (before giving them to friends), I fed them with a mix paste of crushed krill, shrimps, pangasius filets, red mosquito larvae (for the red colour and the smell, their got weird about it)...
here above, you can see my alpha male eating an Hikari Chips algae wafer
I heard they are slow growing fish. the quickest way to grow them out is get the biggest tank you possibly can afford with good filtration, timely water changes, adequate feedings. It helps to keep the water temp @ 80-82 degrees F. in addition to a good filter its reccomended that you provide a good powerhead and/or secondary filtration. I know of a few people that keep these fish & they feed them Hikari carnivore pellets, Ken's earthworm pellets & kens mixed pellets.
indeed : high temperature, maximum O2 saturation, big and regular water changes, good and sufficient food... that's the point to raise them quick and properly
There you go, you heard it from the "only" one that I know who ever bred them in captivity! Good luck
almost right... a Japanese guy did it once, right before me... he posted a few pictures on a japanese forum shortly before me...
but as I don't speak Japanese fluently
but as I don't speak Japanese fluently
Thank you all. I have the l25 and l14 with blue panaque in a 180g.
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Do they like darker set up? Not much light or doesnt really matter? Thanks for info.
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almost right... a Japanese guy did it once, right before me... he posted a few pictures on a japanese forum shortly before me...
but as I don't speak Japanese fluently
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as long as they have hiding places... caves or so on...
in the Xingu (or Rio Iriri) around Sao Felix, they live in the main channel of the river, quite deep into it... so probably not so much light, very poor (not to say inexistant) vegetation, "aufwuchs" on the rocks, sand and that's it...
IMO, the best Pseuda tank would be set up around a deep couch of clear sand, a few rounded rocks burried in it (to create several territories), one or two branches of soft wood to provide shadow and a very strong current (with a TUNZE Stream or something so) and, to help chance, some caves (natural under/between the rocks) or spawning tubes like I had...
again, it's not because I was lucky twice, that I know the Truth about them...
as my signature mention : no solution, just experiences...
in the Xingu (or Rio Iriri) around Sao Felix, they live in the main channel of the river, quite deep into it... so probably not so much light, very poor (not to say inexistant) vegetation, "aufwuchs" on the rocks, sand and that's it...
IMO, the best Pseuda tank would be set up around a deep couch of clear sand, a few rounded rocks burried in it (to create several territories), one or two branches of soft wood to provide shadow and a very strong current (with a TUNZE Stream or something so) and, to help chance, some caves (natural under/between the rocks) or spawning tubes like I had...
again, it's not because I was lucky twice, that I know the Truth about them...
as my signature mention : no solution, just experiences...
