'Bumblebee Akysis'
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'Bumblebee Akysis'
BAS has just imported some fish under the above name, anyone know anything more about them?
A picture of the same fish can be found on the Transfish site at:
http://www.transfish.de/neu.html
A picture of the same fish can be found on the Transfish site at:
http://www.transfish.de/neu.html
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What price are they Pete?
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Hi,
In the meantime all of them (females and males) have turned deeply orange, though i feed among other things mainly Artemia Naupli and large Artemia.
This is also known from an Akysis from Ko-Samui, which also turned orange in captivity (See Evers 1999). When only being fed with wafers and mosquito larvae the fish returned to their "normal" colouration.
Btw: Don't catch them by hand, a sting from the pectoral/dorsal spine hurts like hell. Some info on the fish also see here
Greetings,
Achim
They are very red in color, in what kind of water/biotope they were found?
Like HH said, this is a diet thing. When i first got mine, some of the fish were brownish, some slightly orange.(The wholesaler i got them from already fed with Artemia Naupli) First i thought this is a sex specific coloration, due to the fact that some of the brown fish were gravid.I think it's a diet thing.
In the meantime all of them (females and males) have turned deeply orange, though i feed among other things mainly Artemia Naupli and large Artemia.
This is also known from an Akysis from Ko-Samui, which also turned orange in captivity (See Evers 1999). When only being fed with wafers and mosquito larvae the fish returned to their "normal" colouration.
Btw: Don't catch them by hand, a sting from the pectoral/dorsal spine hurts like hell. Some info on the fish also see here
Greetings,
Achim
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