Reply With Quoteread an article in a fish mag that sometimes the best way - or the lazy man's way - to breed them is to leave them alone in a heavily planted tank. Guess one of them made it through even though it is a community tank.
Congrats to you!
i think my dwarf pencils bred!
i remembered very clearly having bought 8 of them many months ago and i never had them before. but this afternoon as i was catching my fishes out of my planted tank while i do some rearrangement, i counted 9 of them and the new one being distinctively smaller.
I do not know how they bred and how the fry survived given that it is a community aquarium. I perhaps never knew it bred since i was away staying in hostel. but anyhow, just to share my joy!
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read an article in a fish mag that sometimes the best way - or the lazy man's way - to breed them is to leave them alone in a heavily planted tank. Guess one of them made it through even though it is a community tank.
Congrats to you!
Zulkifli
congrats checkerboard.. hope you get more or perharps learn the trick in breeding pencil fish
mmmm.... mine went missing instead.
Bought 5 but so far kept counting only 4 of them.
checkerboard: what kind of pencil fish are they?
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
They are Nannostomus Marginatus.
Thanks for all well wishes!
I think i will attribute it to my tank being very densely planted and filtration through peat. (which to some is not advisable for a planted tank, but i have used it to no ill effects thus far)
Cheers!
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do not do to others what you will not want done to you!
be kind! =)
Any idea which place sells this pencil fish and approx price? I find their swimming behaviour very interesting.
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
Like hummingbirds in water? : )----------------
On 9/15/2003 10:27:07 AM
Any idea which place sells this pencil fish and approx price? I find their swimming behaviour very interesting.
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That's right! Hovering like dragonflies and they keep together as well.
koah fong
Juggler's tanks
I thought of getting more of them but Gan ran out of them : (
I think C328 still have some.
Passion through Apisto
Those are the nannostomus trifasciatus - aka Three line pencile fish.
Cheers!
Benetay
the lampeyes and zebra danios also bred in my dad's 4ft planted!he was clearing the excess ricca,and put the ricca in a small 1.5ft tank...a few days later,fry appeared!The 1st batch has since grown up into lampeyes and zebra danios,and theres another batch coming up...it really surprised me man![:]
yah...im also intrested in dis fish. Wonder where else can i get em. And whats the price like[:
Thanks
Plenty of pencil fish at Plantas Aquarium. Check it out there.
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