Wookii
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At what age do they usually start to colour up like the images you typically see online? Also how long do they usually live?
The owner of aquasnack uk told me he used to breed them and I think he said about six months.At what age do they usually start to colour up like the images you typically see online? Also how long do they usually live?
Depends who you ask and I'm guessing whether they are wild caught or not. I've seen reports of people even being able to gradually wean them onto flake foods but it seems to be very rare and they might actually just be seeing them take the occasional nibble and assuming they are subsisting on it when in fact they're mostly eating copepods and rotifers etc. that are present in the aquarium and they will also 100% eat snails and their eggs.Love these little fish and reading about the hunt for the elusive females. Would love to try and get some for my nano I am setting up. How difficult are they to feed? Are they a purely live food only fish?
I've not ordered from this company before but before I was able to source my female from riverpark aquatics I was in contact with them and they did claim to be able to get female scarlet badis. I think it's entirely possible that they have actually made an effort to do so based on my harassment of them and that this listing is the real deal. I might even order a couple and see what turns up, I'd definitely say this is your best bet if anyone reading this is looking to get ahold of a female.If anyone thinks they can reproduce then this might be helpful:
Female Scarlet Badis ~ 1cm
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Thank you very much. I think I will have to hold off getting some then until I can find a space to keep a small live food farm. How do you keep your Crangonyx out of interest?Depends who you ask and I'm guessing whether they are wild caught or not. I've seen reports of people even being able to gradually wean them onto flake foods but it seems to be very rare and they might actually just be seeing them take the occasional nibble and assuming they are subsisting on it when in fact they're mostly eating copepods and rotifers etc. that are present in the aquarium and they will also 100% eat snails and their eggs.
I've been able to get scarlet badis and dario hysignon to reliably take frozen copepods in the past without much effort and I'll be interested to see whether it might be easier to acclimate captive bred specimens to non live food than wild caught ones now that I seem to have some fry.
I wouldn't feel right about not offering them any live food at all though. Based on my experience I would think that a large enough densely planted tank without excessive filtration, any large predators, or UV sterilisers could possibly support a pair just with indiginous tiny arthropods that tend to be present in mature aquariums alongside a population of shrimp and snails but at the moment I culture a lot of different live food for them.
I've been having great success culturing some Crangonyx pseudogracillis that I got from @dw1305 . Given that only the babies are small enough to be eaten by scarlet badis I'm hoping soon to add them to the tank along with the cherries and amanos that are already in there - and that they'll be able to sustain themselves as an extra food source as they seem to breed faster than cherries. My cherry population is pretty stable even with a handful of micropredators in there so I've got high hopes for the crangonyx because they're also very entertaining to watch and some of them are a beautiful blue/green colour.
I was @louis_last's supplier and I keep them <"In my Asellus"> and Black worm (<"Lumbriculus">) buckets (below).How do you keep your Crangonyx out of interest?
I'm keeping them more or less the same way @dw1305 does in his buckets. I've got them in a plastic tub with java moss, some fallen beech leaves, a little bit of cuttlebone and some snails. I've tossed some algae from my vivarium in there as well as the odd bit of food I make for my shrimps and they seem to be thriving. Theres a few batches of babies scooting about anyway but @dw1305 was kind enough to send at least one berried female so they got off to a good start right off the bat.Thank you very much. I think I will have to hold off getting some then until I can find a space to keep a small live food farm. How do you keep your Crangonyx out of interest?
If you want to search for info, the colour-changing cells are called chromatophores.I wish I understood exactly how they do it.
Hi all,
I was @louis_last's supplier and I keep them <"In my Asellus"> and Black worm (<"Lumbriculus">) buckets (below).
I've kept Crangonyx like this <"since 2016"> and Asellus and Lumbriculus for ~10 years without any problems.
cheers Darrel
<"Green algae, dead leaves and fish food">, but I've also found them in the filter, so they presumably eat any form of biofilm.What do the Crangonyx typically eat in the aquarium Darrel