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On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 11:34:29 pm sheriartist57 wrote: > http://members.optusnet.com.au/chelmon/Melano.htm > In cruising on Google,I ran across this site which has as many > rainbowfish from New Guinea originally and from Australia as I have > seen.I could find lists before,but this has the history,environment > and photos.If u r interested in Rainbows,check this out. > If anyone has had success in raising them,please drop me a line.I am > fascinated by this species,but know little about raising them.I > currently have a dozen of various well known available types. > Enjoy!Sheri
I have splendida splendida in a 200l tank here. They are local to my area.
I had 8 of them and they spawned in the tank in December 2006. I put some eggs and fry in a small tank, but lost most of those (there were jillions) and the ones I still have now survived in the main tank with the adults, who did not eat them. I had some surface plant cover and the fry stay on the surface while the adults tend to swim and eat at mid level.
They tend to spawn around the wet season here when it gets hot (tank temp gets up to 32C. And you can really get them going with a 50-80% water change with rain water at that time.
The fry are very very tiny and need crushed flake, or natural foods, green water, etc. They are so tiny you can’t really see them without looking very hard.
They are very slow to grow for a start. Takes forever for them to look like fish.
But the guys here are 14months old now. I kept 6 of the babies, two male and the rest female. They range about 5-7cm long now.
They didn’t spawn this year as I lost my big male and only have the young guys, tho one male is getting quite big. Not sure what age of maturity is.
Here are some pix when they were about 2-3mm long http://bcs4me.com/xfry01.jpg http://bcs4me.com/xfry02.jpg http://bcs4me.com/xfry03.jpg
And here as they look now: http://bcs4me.com/xrf01.jpg
Most of these are young fish born December 2006. The slightly larger female in the low center is actually a lot older, at least 4 years old, but small for some reason. The two males along the center line are both 14months old.
tim

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