Simpsonichthys flammeus Nova Roma AC-03

**CM Media** · 8th Mar 2005, 13:32

My new collection...

Special thanks to Stormhawk for the photoshot on the fish. :P

**TyroneGenade** · 8th Mar 2005, 17:57

No! No! No! the picture is too small!!! How can you tease us like this?! That is such a super fish and you give us such a tiny picture.

That is a cool fish Au, and one I've been after for a long long time. The last time I tried however I wound up with Glugea in my fish room (be careful from whom you get your peat from) so I'm abit put off... But should space miraculously appear on my fishtank stand I will try again.

tt

**stormhawk** · 9th Mar 2005, 01:14

I got the bigger version of the picture

**CM Media** · 9th Mar 2005, 12:04

Hi Guys, picture edited to a bigger copy.

Tyrone,

The fish is clean from disease as I got them from 2 senior breeder from AKA. I'm now working on the 2nd generation. Should start to collect eggs in a month's time.

**Eric Yeo** · 9th Mar 2005, 14:27

Wow! Au, very nice fish

Eric Yeo

**stormhawk** · 9th Mar 2005, 19:39

Eric, you should see the male in the flesh. It is a stunning specimen of a fish.

Thanks to Au

I have the male in the picture swimming in my tank with a female I raised from a separate batch of eggs I received from a different source.

I lost the initial trio to some stress while I was bringing them home. This male came home with me safe and sound.

The photo was shot when the male was beginning to settle into the new tank.

The pair are quite matured so I hope I get some good eggs from these fellas. Been seeing them going in and out of the spawning bowl these past few days.

I keep the pair with a group of Pseudomugil gertrudae as tankmates. The pair isn't so shy with the presence of the gregarious Gertrude's Forktails.

**TyroneGenade** · 9th Mar 2005, 19:46

The flammeus are super fish! Should space miracalously appear at my place I will think about buying some eggs.

tt4n

**stormhawk** · 9th Mar 2005, 20:21

Yes Tyrone they are a super fish but don't miraculously remove one species from your rack just to make way for it.

**felixe** · 10th Mar 2005, 13:02

Nice fish! Good luck!

**stormhawk** · 16th Mar 2005, 06:43

Another latest shot of the male.

**Piscesgirl** · 16th Mar 2005, 08:44

I really like the coloring of this fish.

**promethean_spark** · 17th Mar 2005, 14:10

These guys are near the top of my wish list. I'd like to see a pair in person though before mail-ordering some so that I can judge how big they are. Got a photo with something for scale?

Kind of remind me of a woma http://www.kingsnake.com/donpatterson/woma.html

**stormhawk** · 17th Mar 2005, 14:45

Hi Sparky, the male for this species maxes out around 4.5 to 5cm in total length depending on how well he's fed. The female on the other hand maxes out at around 3.5 to 4cm.

**CM Media** · 17th Mar 2005, 15:04

This species is known to grow upto 4cm in length. Female is slightly smaller in size.

**stormhawk** · 12th Apr 2005, 16:52

Double disaster for me last night. After finding my Riv. agilae female dead, I was cleaning up the flammeus tank searching for the missing female and I found her rotting carcass behind the sponge filter.

The good part is that I have 5 young fry growing up but the problem is whether the females will be mature enough to lay eggs in a month's time.

Edit: Miscounted, should have been 6 fry instead of 5.

**ruyle** · 13th Apr 2005, 01:32

Originally Posted by stormhawk

The good part is that I have 5 young fry growing up but the problem is whether the females will be mature enough to lay eggs in a month's time.

Good luck with that, Jianyang. It always sucks when you lose half a breeder pair

Post a pic of the 5 when they reach teenager size, I'd
like to see their coloring. Beautiful fish.

Bill

**stormhawk** · 13th Apr 2005, 07:22

It looks like an all-girl bunch. I took out the largest bugger to join the old male in its tank. Hopefully it turns out to be a female because its already 2.5 cm in length and not showing any colour. The remaining 5 (I forgot I had 6 instead of 5 left) are of varying sizes with 3 at 1.8 cm, 1 at 1.5 cm and one small straggler at 1.2 cm.

Finnage wise it seems to show the male's characteristics but I hope its a female. The problem with this species as per communication with a fellow breeder is that the females mature very late (± 6 months ? ).

This batch was collected from the hatching tray on the 4th of March 05. Come Friday they will be 6 weeks old. On the 4th of September they will be already 6 months old. I hope they don't take that long to mature.. [-o<

These 6 fellas are from eggs sent from a friend in Brazil. From the same collection made at Nova Roma in 2003 by Andre Carletto.

The last peat collected rendered zero eggs. The old female was reluctant to spawn in the bowl I gave them.

Here's an obituary pic of that old flammeus chick.

**stormhawk** · 30th Apr 2005, 07:36

Hi Bill and all,

As requested, an image of the "teenagers" at 8 weeks of age.

Fish no. 3 is the young male that I was lucky enough to get from amongst the 6 surviving fry. The other 2 are females. 2 others are missing from the image because they were hiding.