Rainbowric Posted June 9, 2014 Report Share Posted June 9, 2014 Thought I should start a thread for this species. Quite a few of you have them and if not, send AA member geleen a PM, he has some for sale ! The ones that are available are F2's which is pretty darn nice to have in a Rainbowfish. Generally we are looking at F5 up to Fxx with bows. Just can't get larger ships to go into the swamps of Australia and pull them out in large lots for sale.. not to forget to mention that the Austraiian's would not let that happen as well. Three AA members including myself, geleen, and Jayba picked up a half a dozen pairs of F1's from Gary Lange last year and got busy and bred a bunch up for you to enjoy. By all means ....please tell us what you think of this colorful litte fish. However you might not be quite so pleased yet as I would guess that most of your fish would look something like this fish which is about 2 inches long. This picture was taken about 5 months ago .... the fish would have been ~ 6 months old. So yesterday dug out the camera, cleaned my living room 100 gallon. Vaccumed the substrate, so pretty clean, and unfortunately the white stones in the substrate really lightened up the tank. Doing an overhaul ...so no plants in it at all. Pretty much a very poor setting for a Rainbowfish. The picture above was taken in a grow out tank with Eco-Complete black substrate. This substrate really brings out the colors of a bow! The boys were flashing a bit after I did a water change so took a couple of shots. These are the F1's that we brought up. They are about 3 inches long now. I can hardly wait until the substrate fills in a bit and becomes a little darker and I get some plants in this tank! I would sure like to hear what the rest of you are thinking about this fish. Cheers Ric --------------------------------"Melanotaenia boesemani from Lake Aytinjo" The Aytinjo variant does have stronger colours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syno321 Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 At peril of repeating myself, why do you torture us so? :cry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geleen Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) At peril of repeating myself, why do you torture us so? :cry: I don't think it is in his nature; however............. Edited June 10, 2014 by geleen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyfisher Posted June 10, 2014 Report Share Posted June 10, 2014 Just when I'm pulling out the fly fishing gear and beginning to set up for chasing after an other type of Rainbow you guys tempt me with these.I think you both enjoy this.LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blink Posted June 11, 2014 Report Share Posted June 11, 2014 Mine are looking like the first photo, already pretty but they keep getting nicer. They are a higher activity rainbow but so far that just means they keep my other fish from sitting around lazily Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbowric Posted November 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 I guess it is time to update this post . Pictured below is one of the boys above, now 5 months older, almost four inches long. In a relaxed state ... unaware of a approaching female! Like all bows ..on comes the colors for her! And now the flash up the nose ! Now just over a year old ...say ~ 14 months ...starting to look like a pretty nice boy! Cheers Ric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geleen Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 (edited) Looks like you had a fun afternoon Rick, fantastic pics as usual. This takes a lot of skill ! They do indeed light up like multi coloured christmas lights in my tanks as well, and getting better every month. Can hardly wait to see them at 2 yrs of age. For those of you that don't have any I do have 2 or 3 pairs left. John Edited November 28, 2014 by geleen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jayba Posted November 28, 2014 Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Damn those are sexy! Good work Rick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbowric Posted November 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 28, 2014 Thanks John and Jay for you kind complements! Still quite a few people out there that don't realize how important the location name is on the fish. Never see it in the LFS ..well except in case of the trifiasciata ...Goyder River, Wonga Creek, Running Creek etc.etc. but then there are probably close to 50 different kinds of trifasciata's so they need to include the location name. The first Chilatherina alleni I had, bred and raised was the Chilatherina alleni "Siriwo" .. it was the first C. alleni to hit the hobby and was scientically analyzed by Dr. Gerald Allen. To whom the fish was named after. There had been other collections of the alleni but they were all very similar fish. The C. alleni "Wapoga" claim to fame was it's coloration ... lots more red and of course people like to see red in fish. But now after raising both fish I can see a few other differences. One being the Siriwo grew faster and was also a little wider. It to was a very high energy fish compared to any other bows and higher energy then the other species in the Chilatherina genus, however it was not quite as crazy as the Wapoga! Just thought I would post a picture of the Siriwo fish in this thread. Many breeders in North America have dropped this fish and now have the Wapoga fish in there collection, which is kind of sad for the Siriwo fish. Fortunately Mark Nicholson in the USA is maintaining a colony of the Siriwo and so they should be around for a while. Chilatherina alleni "Siriwo" Cheers Ric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsbatson Posted February 1, 2015 Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 Would love to obtain some of these if anyone has any juvies or adult fish. Can they be shipped to Texas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainbowric Posted February 1, 2015 Author Report Share Posted February 1, 2015 It would be easier for you to obtain this fish from a breeder in USA rather then here in Canada. I do not know of any breeders in Canada that will ship any kind of bow to the USA. Just to difficult getting them over the border ...sorry but your USA Customs and Immigration! I have had many collectors in the USA contact me over the years and there is just not a safe way of effectively doing it. Most of the reputable breeders I know in the USA unfortunately do no ship in the winter or mid summer because of high or low temperatures. Eric Bodrock of Alloddballaquatics does ship year round and I have seen him auction this fish a number of times recently on Aquabid. However shipping out of season can be a little more expensive ...by using special shipping containers and faster means to compensate for harsher temperatures. You can contact Eric as he has a number of auctions all the time on Aquabid, where you can obtain contact information. He might have a bunch that is close to ready to go, and he does sell other then auctuions. In a few months Gary Lange in the USA will start shipping again. I have in the past had Gary ship me fish off season however state to him immediately on contact that the cost of shipping is not your slightest concern. He might ship to you then ... "Courier next day service" usually that is Fed-ex or you being on the states UPS. He will determine the safest way to get them to you. Gary can be contacted by PM through the forum ...www.rainbow-fish.org ... Username "rainbowfish" you can even try to PM him on this forum, as he did at one time have an active acct under the Username of "rainbowfish" here as well. Breeders don't normally offer to ship! To do it safely for the fish it becomes expensive ..almost double the cost of buying them direct. To me worth it! So you might pay $10 dollars for a fish plus another $10 dollars for shipping of that fish. Okay to buy a quality fish, usually with a pedigree from a reputable breeder, as reputable breeders do not waste there time breeding crap fish, for $20 versus paying almost the same for a farmed fish out of a LFS? Cost is one thing but also it does take a bit of extra time to prepare, package, and ship the fish, so if you find someone willing to give you that time ...consider yourself lucky. Drop me a PM if you need any further help. Ric Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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