Popondetta-Blue Eye...ever see or hear of them ? Fantastic fish..take a look !

ihad a couple years ago...sorry can't remember much to tell you. i still have a nice book on rainbows and blue eyes. this is one that hails from a brackish area- if i rmember correctly.

the threadfin rainbows are also very cool! a bit more sensitive and a freshwater.
 
gabrielandco. said:
ihad a couple years ago...sorry can't remember much to tell you. i still have a nice book on rainbows and blue eyes. this is one that hails from a brackish area- if i rmember correctly.

the threadfin rainbows are also very cool! a bit more sensitive and a freshwater.
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No, it's not a brackish rainbow. There are a few rainbows that hang around eustraries, but those same fish are also found in freshwater lakes, rivers and streams. Dunno if there are any "true" brackish ones. I'll ask on the list.

Boesemani Fan?

Pseudomugil gertrudae, the first picture, is distributed throughout the Northern Territory, northern Queensland, and south-western New Guinea. Found in lakes, rivers and streams. Not brackish.

Pseudomugil connieae, the second picture, originally discovered in Auga Creek, eastern Papua New Guinea. Found in many locals there. Not brackish.

Pseudomugil furcatus, third picture, relatively common in small, clear, rainforest streams. Not brackish.

Anyhow, if in doubt or you want to know, hit the link Emg supplied and read up on it. If it's found in rivers, creeks, streams, lakes, whatever, it's not brackish.

Roan
 
Thanks about the tip on emailing them Roan, I'll do that. And YES I definitely checked out the site and looked at those fish.......I can't believe they aren't more well known.... :huh:

Man, I need to get rid of my small tanks and get a bigger one !! I have about 16 tanks in all......most of them smaller with some 10s a couple 20longs, a 29 and a 15.....I only JUST got my 29 stocked to where I like it ( 2-koi angelfish, 1-pair german blue rams, 5-gold pristella tetras and 2 otos)....now I want a tank of rainbows...with definitely a group of those boesemanis !)

I need my own house !! :D
 
I replied a bunch of times but thy get burried fast.

I don't recommend keeping the small Pseudomogils with bigger Rainbowfish. Me and my friend each got a school of 6 Gertrudae and he put his in with his Boesemani and two dissappeared over night.

I keep mine in a planted 30 gallon with my male Betta and a few Signifer rainbows. They are little cuties.
 
Emg said:
And YES I definitely checked out the site and looked at those fish.......I can't believe they aren't more well known.... :huh:
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Well, many of those fish are "new". Specimens were brought in during the early part of the last century for study, but nothing live. It's a virtual safari to even get to some of these lakes and rivers that the fish dwell in. Some of the lakes can only be seen from the air and even the natives don't know how to get to them or are even aware of their existence.

You'll notice on the rainbow site that there are pictures missing or the pictures are of obviously dead, preserved fish. That's because there no live ones anywhere but where they were discovered.

Take Glossolepis pseudoincisus, Tami River or Millenium Rainbow, it was first collected in 1954, but no other specimens were found until 2002 when Heiko Bleher found them in Lake Ifanten. He brought some back, they were bred, and now they are available to anyone.

I think we'll see more and more newly "discovered" rainbow species over the next few years.

Roan
 
reziztor said:
...I don't recommend keeping the small Pseudomogils with bigger Rainbowfish. Me and my friend each got a school of 6 Gertrudae and he put his in with his Boesemani and two dissappeared over night.. . .
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Very true.

In fact I've been advised not to keep Boesemani with any other rainbows as they will attempt to breed with them.

Roan
 
gabrielandco. said:
thanks for hte correction...looks like i need to reread my book.
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Your book could be wrong. One of the main rainbow sites is also wrong about one fish :) Many of the rainbows are new and sometimes the information gets "mangled" in the translations.

I've written a note to the r_m_l (rainbow mailing list) and thus far I've been told that there are no brackish rainbows at all. There are some that like a little salinity, but they're not brackish and it's not a total necessity. Like Mollies, if you will.

Still waiting for more clarification on this.

Roan
 
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