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@mikev said:
Powdered food seems to help with young snails… and they need A LOT of calcium so I’d guess water changes will be beneficial even for your hard water… otherwise they compete with each other for Ca and nobody gets enough, thus most die.

I believe they eat ramshorns too, at least there were very few ramshorns surviving in spixi tanks.

By moving the Aselone spixi into several of my tanks with tiny livebearers (Heterandria formosa, Neoheterandria elegans and Phallichthys quadripunctatus) all of which are regularly given powdered foods, the total number of snails seems to be growing at a steady rate and a lot faster than before. That was really a helpful piece of advice.

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No, I was saying that I have a group of M. ocellatus from Guangzhou.

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I have a group of Macropodus ocellatus from Guangzhou. I hope to breed them this summer. It’s a very beautiful fish, which I had been wanting for ages. I’m amazed at the amount of live foods they can eat. At an age of 8 months, mine have been close to their maximum size for some time now. It turned out that I have 6 males and 3 females, but that should work fine, as they do not seem to be very aggressive.

 

I like the M. hongkongensis too, but unfortunately they do not seem to be available here.

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I would love to read this one, too.

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Me four, please. Thanks in advance.

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@Rüdiger said:
Jupp, that makes two of us Matt!!! But isn’t it almost too much to hope for??

 

Any particular reason you and Matt are hoping they’re Danio auropurpureus? Aren’t they supposed to be quite easy to breed?

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I’d be very interested in reading this.

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I would love to read this too.

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Thank you Michael.

 

I do feed them a lot. I don’t change water on the young snails that often. A clutch or two of them were put in 54 l/14g tanks. Our tap water is slightly basic and very hard (occasionally referred to as liquid calcium).

 

I don’t keep any cories and it does seem to be a decent alternative to apple snails, which are no longer legally available within the EU. I did know about their tendency to eat eggs (and snails – apparently even assassin snails). I will make it a rule only to keep them with livebearers and other fish which are unlikely to leave eggs in the aquarium.

 

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It’s a very nice fish. I kept them some 10 years ago. I got them at the same time as Danio erythromicron and Microrasbora rubescens which are also from Lake Inlé. All three species were kept and bred under similar conditions – and all of them seem to be about as easy to breed as your typical Danio.

 

Compared to other wild caught specimens I’ve seen, these look rather nice.

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I’d love to read this one, if it becomes available.

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Very nice Matt. An interesting read/view and most certainly added to my list of places I’d like to visit.

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Me too. Didn’t supply an email address in order to win a digital subscription to Amazone Magazine. It’s already included in my ordinary subscription.

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I’d love to read it too, if possible.

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 Me too, please.

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