Wanted

[thapsus]

Does anyone own some of these species:
Boraras brigittae, mosquito rasbora
Boraras urophthalmoides, exclamationpoint rasbora
Boraras maculatus, dwarf rasbora
Trigonostigma hengeli, glowlight rasbora
Trigonostigma espei, lambchop rasbora

I would like to hear experiences about them. Pictures would be great.

 

[sylvia]

Are those scientific names the most recent? I'm not familiar with some - particularly the genus of some species I seem to recall as being different.

Out of those you listed, I have had experiences with lambchop, dwarf and glowlight rasboras.

I have kept dwarf rasboras but made the mistake of keeping them with a keyhole cichlid as a temporary housing and many got eaten before it occured to me that this might be an issue. They only grow to an inch so are great for smaller aquariums and small-fish communities. They also look good in planted tanks and are good schoolers and lively, though peaceful, inhabitants. They are attractive, with an elongated shape and, especialy, a very long caudal penduncle compaired to most other rasboras. They have nice coloring with the bold spots and pink highlights. Feeding is simple, mine were very happy with the usual commercial flake and small live foods. They get on with anything that won't eat them.

My lambchop rasboras were the brightest and my favourites of the 3 mentioned. They were very good schoolers and remind me of harlequins in character. They grew just larger than the dwarfs but I'd say they max out at an inch as well. They were not fussy eaters and will especialy appreciate a densly planted tank. I would say they require some more room than the dwarfs as they are considerably more active swimmers - at least those which I have had. They were hardy fish but I would say the glowlights were hardier.

Glowlight rasboras are larger than either of the other two and much more 'common' looking IMO. They are still very nice fish, school well, look attractive (especialy in large numbers) and are not fussy but I would say they'd do better in a larger tank in a peaceful, active community with medium-sized fish while the others are best with smaller fish so as not to get eaten. At 1.25-1.5 inches, I managed to keep some with angelfish and avoided casualties though I obviously would not reccomend to risk it. The black and orange set on the semi-transparent body are a very nice contrast and looks great against a green background of dense vegetation.

 

[The-Wolf]

I don't have ant rasboras but i have
microrasbora rubescens dwarf red rasbora
I put a profile in the fish index on this forum.
here is the link http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=61288

I also have danio erythromicron wich was formerly microrasbora erythromicron here is a link to my web site page about them
http/www.danios.0catch.com/NEWDANIO/Erythromicron.html

HTH

 

[thapsus]

As far as I know those are most recent names. I'm not shure thought. Some of these species are extremely rare here in finland.

Thankyou for sharing. I'm thinking of trying to get maybe lambchops. I just need to find more information where they are from first to make shure I will keep them right.

 

[sylvia]

http/www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?id=27073

Pretty much sums up where they are from and the environment they preffer.

 

[Themuleous]

I have 12 Boraras brigittae and just a single Boraras maculatus, all in a 20ish litre tank on their own. An article in PFK mag introduced me to them a few years back, have been trying to get maculatus for a while now, but have only managed the single one. The others were found by chance whilst visiting a shop.

I personally love them, the maculatus is slightly bigger but I think the colouring on the brigittae is more vibrant. I’m hoping to breed them once I can spare the time to invest the effort.

They always shoal nicely and seem keen when I approach the tank to feed. I use normal tropical flake that I bash with the end of a fork or spoon for a while to make it nice and small, seem to love it

Not managed any pictures as yet but was going to try that at some stage so will keep you posted.

Just out of interest, the small tank setups for these kinds of fish, does anyone have any advice re keeping plants? They don’t seem to make plant light tubes small enough (my tank is only 18in long, so has a 12watt bulb at present) and my plants never seem to do very well, despite the fish needing lots of them!

Don’t know if this has really helped, but I would definitely recommend them to people, although one did get sucked into my filter (it survived too!) so probably for people with a bit of experience.

 

[emma12321]

Hi,

I have some maculatus pic can be seen here http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=123734 . I had been looking for them for a couple of years and found some skinny looking specimens in a shop i rarely visit. They were 4 for £5 so i bought 16 and put them in quarantine with some platy fry which were the same size, i had to move the tank and they got ich, when it came to moving them to their permanent tank there were only 11 left and over the past week i have only been seeing 9.

I have checked inside the filter as it is a juwel tank but so far they are missing in action, the ones that remain are all plump and healthy looking so hopefully they will all survive and if i can find any more i will buy them. They are a lovely fish but so tiny you need a big group to notice them, hopefully the missing ones will turn up as there are loads of places they could be hiding in the tank.

Emma