Pituna brevirostrata

[Onagro]

I just recieved some eggs of this species today and I am kind of curious as to what this species is like. The seller only gave me a list of foods and incubation time with the eggs. Has anyone here kept this species?

[Leo]

Hi Onagro!

I hatched this species about three weeks ago - I noticed, that the fry is very small, I'm sure, they did not eat Artemia-nauplias at their first and their second day.
I keep them at 25°C - and I added 1g sea-salt per liter - to keep the artemia longer alive.
They grow very slowly - but it looks like this is a really interesting species - they have a own way to swim.

I can't tell about the sex-ratio now - but as far as I can say till now, I guess, it is an eays species - except the first days, when artemia is too big - maybe very small artemia would work?

greetings!

Leo

[Onagro]

Hello, Leo!

It's great to see there are others trying these fish. The breeder my eggs came from suggested infusoria at first, then brine shrimp and microworms when they get noticably larger than newborns. My hatch date is today, so I'll get some fry soon enough. I did find some information at www.itrainsfishes.net which is pretty useful.

Please let me know how yours do, Leo. This species seems rather interesting.

Jeremy

[Leo]

Hi Jeremy,

I hope, you managed to hatch them and they are growing at your place.
I put them out of the hatching-tank last weekend - I'm quite surprised, how big the difference between the smallest and the biggest fish is.
For the moment I'm sure to have more males, than females - and I don't know, if the small ones will make it - the bigger ones occupate the places, where the food is....I don't have any space to divide them :-?.

Growing is not very fast - compared to other "annual" fish - so I hope, that they are NOT short in live.

I don't use any light at this tank - they love to live in the shadow, always searching for a leave or something else to sit under it.

Feeding at my place is still artemia and Grindal-worms. I gave them a try with frozen mosquito-larvae, but they did not really want to eat that.

greetings!

Leo

[Leo]

Hi everyone:

An update:
I can see that the males fight with each other - the big ones are quite agressive!
I guess, my females will soon carry eggs - I was told to put a box with peat in the back of the tank - I will tell you, how they're doing then.

It's interesting, that the top of the sponge-filter is a place to fight - the males want to sit on this filter :-).

I'll try to get some pictures, but I don't want to put fish out of this tank - I'm fearing, that they can't come back without fights and maybe I loose a beatuful male this way - so I have to make the pictures in teh actual tank, which is not easy.

greetings!

Leo

[mozaqua]

I got some P. compacta eggs, but they seem difficult to hatch. First hatch attempt only one hatched, second attempt only one again. Is P. brevirostrata any more productive?

Regards,