#hyphessobrycon

Hyphessobrycon caru

Hyphessobrycon sweglesi

Ersteinführung:

im Jahre 1961.

Beschreibung:

den roten Phantomsalmler als Schwarmfisch ist ab und zu im Handel zu finden. Aber viel seltener als andere Hyphessobrycon Arten. 

Sozialverhalten:

Sie schwimmen im mittleren Bereich. 4 cm. Männchen untereinander etwas ruppig.

Heimat:

Kolumbien, lokal.

Aquarium:

versteckreich einrichten, ab 54 liter, teilweise dicht bepflanzen. Dunkler Bodengrund, nicht zu hell beleuchten. Ab 20-23 °C. Brauchen auf Dauer, weiches bis max. neutrales Wasser.

Futter:

keine Ansprüche.

Zucht:

I really like my flame tetras hyphessobrycon flammeus, they have calmed down and are not breeding as much. I have given away at least 120 of them but now it's pretty relaxed, maybe should find new homes for 10-15 of them but it's fine.

Anyways, kind of want to add something else to the tank. I do love Precious (my lone surviving guppy) and part of me wants to get another one and have some guppy babies so Precious will live on but all the work of finding new homes for guppys... it is a popular fish but it's hard to even give them away (no experience but seems like it unless you have some fancy variety).

So corys, they are so cute! Looking some some of the smaller ones to add to the tank in c. hastatus, c. habrosusor c. pygmaeus. It will depend on what they have in store and if/when I get my ass off the couch. I should do some garden related things outside but it's cold and my back is a little sad, and it's NaNoWriMo and I'm trying to write. Have a feeling there won't be any new fish until spring...

Also, I brought my water lilies inside as that is how I have to store them for winter to have them survive and very tempted to add some fish to the bucket. I was going to store them in two buckets but they didn't really fit. I was forced to get a bigger bucket and I added them to it and... it's large enough to have fish in. I was playing with the idea of having an indoor pond but I wanted to make that a permanent setup. This one only had some floaters and water lilies in them, nothing on the bottom and not trying to be pretty and I will take this out in the summer. If I had fish in it I don't want to mess with it too much.

Been two weeks since I got the fish back inside and found some fry in the pond today, there's been some cold days and nights, maybe 13C (55F) and I pulled the heat and the air two days after I took the fish in.

I spent hours, hours… collecting all the fry and fish from my patio pond. They could probably have been outside for a while longer but I rather have it done in time than trying to find all the fish in a panic. All 10 of the original fish were found along with 60+ fry… worse than guppies, need to rehome a few.

But I bet guppies or platies are a lot easier to collect at the end of the summer.

So I always wanted some flame tetras and they are supposed to be able to deal with 16C so sounded good and they were the first fish I bought. They are not that common in shops anymore but I don’t know why because they were so darn cute. I bought 10 of them and let them acclimatize in my pond for awhile before putting them in. Off they went, gone. Hello? I didn’t see them and I was a little bummed. I got some flake on the second day because I wanted to know if they were alive. Nothing happened. Third day and I got some freeze dried tubifex worms and there was something there, yes, at least one of them were alive for sure. I waited a day or so before I fed again as there should be plenty of food in the pond for them. I did fed a little today and I love it, they are like piranhas and impossible to count but I think they are all there. There’s been some cold days and they’ve done well. (Last few days have been cold so I got the heater in just in case)

With the success of the flame tetras I wanted some guppies, many people have guppies in tubs over the summer and they are colorful and often at the surface (unlike the flame tetras). I did try to find some hobbyist with some fish but... one person had guppies and it was a pure strain or whatever and sounded little prices so despite MANY saying don’t go to like a chain store I went to a chain store (that were kind of expensive) and I got six guppies. Acclimatizing and into the pond they went. They looked great, love it! 

But they were so skiddish and sluggish, maybe need some time? One dead following morning, based on all the complains on guppies it was expected. I check the water, okay, check the temp, okay... and then there were only one left and I was sad because I’m a horrible person that killed fish. I had set up a fish tank in case something went wrong and I bought the poor little guppy inside and she was horrible, she looked half dead, pale, not eating, barely swimming and it was horrible, I was scared to look in the tank expecting her to be dead.

But she made a full recovery! She’s got a lovely dark color and plenty of shine. Refuses to eat flakes but tubifex worms is yummy and even better, mosquito larvae! I have named her Precious.

So what happened? Maybe a combo of things but I think that maybe the fluctuation in temps was the big deal. The stress from moving and then straight into the pond that jumped from 18C at night to 26C in the day. I know of others that have guppies outside over the summer, right now we have some cold days and people have their guppies outside without heater, “Yeah, they go a little sluggish but are fine when they sun comes out”.

Someone said it was due to the fact that I didn’t have an air stone but many people don’t have air stones and my tetras don’t have air. And when I moved Precious inside, I didn’t have a filter for a few days and she perked up regardless. The only thing I can think of is steady temperature indoor, 22C no heater.