What Can You Tell Me About Lake Kutubu Rainbow Fish?

[Jozlyn]

Does anyone have or know anything about Lake Kutubu Rainbow Fish - Melanotaemia lacustris

Can't find anything in here on them at all.

I'd like to know what part of the tank they inhabit, upper, mid, lower? And whether they should be kept as a single/pair/school?

 

[The-Wolf]

Melanotaemia lacustris reaches 10cm
the local populus consider them a gamefish (IE Edible)
Prefers the following aquarium conditions: pH=7.3, GH=12, 27°C water temperature. needs rocks, plants and floating plants
to encorage spawning.

generaly speaking they are mid-bottom fish but like most rainbows will swim all over the tank.
suceptable to velvet disease and often carry internal parasites, especially wild caught ones.

 

[Jozlyn]

Melanotaemia lacustris reaches 10cm
the local populus consider them a gamefish (IE Edible)
Prefers the following aquarium conditions: pH=7.3, GH=12, 27°C water temperature. needs rocks, plants and floating plants
to encorage spawning.

generaly speaking they are mid-bottom fish but like most rainbows will swim all over the tank.
suceptable to velvet disease and often carry internal parasites, especially wild caught ones.

Thanks Wolf, your advice is as always, spot on.

How many do you need to get though? I've looked at at least a dozen websites this arvo and some say 1 some say 2-3 and one said 6 as the minimum!

 

[Jozlyn]

Bump, up to the top you go

 

[brittlestar]

Bump, up to the top you go

I think they are similar to all rainbows in that they like a planted tank with some current, silver sand substrate with some bogwood. That's the environment I created for mine and they really are flourishing. I keep my rainbows in groups of 3 per species and have never had any quarreling.

 

[Jozlyn]

Bump, up to the top you go

I think they are similar to all rainbows in that they like a planted tank with some current, silver sand substrate with some bogwood. That's the environment I created for mine and they really are flourishing. I keep my rainbows in groups of 3 per species and have never had any quarreling.

Thanks BrittleStar

 

[The-Wolf]

yup, 3 is the min i'd go for but the more the merrier

 

[mlawson]

All I can say is they're great looking fish!