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With a species this prolific and precocious I need to put extra fish in different places. This also allowed me to test them in a variety of parameters from distilled to regular tap (my water is naturally very soft as well). Incredibly hardy fish in softer water, and no extra care is needed...
Females are sexable by their white vent at under an inch long. I've had multiple F2 pairs produce fry around 8 months of age. Co-parental care is exceptional even in densely stocked communities and from the first batch.
Both males and females can shift their face color form brown, red or jet...
Feeding a lot of live baby brine and frozen copepods seems to have brought out a lot more oranges? Not sure if it's maturity or diet influenced, but just thought I'd note that just in case.
Just updating with some new pictures. I imagine this is about peak coloration for them, but they always...
The fry are doing super. Twice daily feedings of baby brine shrimp is really all they're getting right now. They grow like weeds compared to rainbowfish, which is what I usually breed.
The parents aren't always showing the colors in my pics, but they do but on their dark markings when I've...
Thank you! The pair exhibited signs of cleaning different locations and digging pits for a couple weeks before the female disappeared with her clutch of eggs. So hopefully you're close? Dietarily I didn't really change anything up. Though my pair like bloodworms, I am allergic and try to handle...
Here's a pic of the female tending to the fry. Both male and female have exhibited very good co-parental care but the female takes on a a larger role in the rearing of offspring
Just to provide a quick update. The bimaculata have spawned in a seed pod and have made excellent first time parents so far. The fry have just started to become free swimming and exploring the edges of the seed pod cave. No triggers were necessary to induce breeding and parameters were as such...
I assume I recieved mine from the same source as you. So they should be similar in age. The male has packed on quite a bit of size since arriving around the end of june. You could try adding a small makeup mirror to coax them into better colors for photography. The female has her white vent down...