Monday, January 3, 2011

Breeding Parosphromenus nagyi

Finally succeeded breeding my 2nd species of Parosphromenus, the P.nagyi from Kuantan, Pahang.

The breeding pair is housed in 1ft tank, ph 5 (tap water mix with rain water) and peat granules added. Temperature were constant at 28C. The pair are fed with mosquitoes larvae, daphnia, and artemia twice daily and finally, i was rewarded with few batches of eggs and fries in 2 weeks period! Cant believe it!

Here's some photos of the fries and pair, albeit blurry ones.. :(
P.nagyi with eggs

P.nagyi pair

P.nagyi female angry

Parosphromenus nagyi fries

Parosphromenus nagyi fries 2

Hope i can manage to raise all to maturity and continue to conserve this species in captivity. The type locality and natural habitats of all Parosphromenus are threatened by development and forest clearing. Such a sad sad issues..

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