Boesemani Rainbow Questions?

[GAB99]

hi i have 2 of them at the moment because they are really hard to find cheap and i cant get anymore fish until 2 more weeks, one is really streamiled and less colored while the other one has a sort of hump underneath it, it starts just behind the mouth and just to the end of it's fins.

im thinking i have 1 male and 1 female, and in the mornings i realize that the supposed male (hump) turns on a sort of black horizonatl line down its side and chases the female and has mild twitchy fits. is this normal?

i also have a school of M. praecox and the males head turns yellow to try to ate wit the female, is whats happening to the boesemani the same thing just different way of doing it? or will his head turn yellow too?



the 2 rainbows also school with the smaller praecox rainbows, im assuming becasue they dont have a school of their own? im trying to get the lfs to get some so i could have a school, becasue there they are 6$ and petsmart they are 12$ and they are really small, i tried competitors price matching but they only do it for dry goods.

 

[drobbyb]

Have a picture? Boesemani rainbows don't have a breeding stripe like the praecox. Instead they have a mating display.

 

[GAB99]

Have a picture? Boesemani rainbows don't have a breeding stripe like the praecox. Instead they have a mating display.

sorry,they are way to fast for my camera,they turn out light blobs of yellow and blue.

the suppoed male looks like the rainbow on the top of the page, and mine is a lighter shade than that one as the sand is light colored and there is lots of light.

 

[GAB99]

bump

iv'e only noticed it about 2 times only. could the black line showing be a sort of stress bar like on discus? if so, would it be because there are only 2 of them in the tank, not enough hiding places etc?

or could it be he want to mate?

 

[minxfishy]

I have to say, Ive never seen a boesemani with a black stripe and Ive kept many, neither horizontal or vertical, the male will have the two colours, blue to the front, orange/yellow to the back which can intensify whilst displaying to a female or showing dominance to another male.

 

[GAB99]

ther are pics with some that have tem, so im not too worried that its a hybrid, but im thinking that then the stripe signifies stress like a discus, and hope fully i will be able to get him more friends soon and hope fully that solves it.

they also dont get alot of veggies to eat either, the foods red so im assumeing it is mostly meat based, could this be another factor? my more delicate M. praecox have been on it for 2 months now and havent mind, in fact they grew tremendously.

also dont the colors on the front range from green-blue to blue-purple and the back ones dark orange to white?