All About Exclamation Point Rasboras: The Smallest Nano Fish? (AKA Least Rasbora)
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2023
- Exclamation point rasbora - also known as the sparrow or least rasbora - are one of the smallest fish available in the fish keeping hobby. They are perfectly suitable for smaller aquariums, although not nano size, but do bare in mind they are certainly not the easiest of fish to keep long term. They do have quite particular water requirements and are not suitable for keeping with the vast majority of other fishy tankmates.
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i'm a countryside Vietnameses and tbh this rasbora is prefect for neocaridina shirmp. I rarely see them chasing any baby shirmps, not to metion adult shirmps. At first i wouldn't think that putting them in a shirmp tank was a good idea, but since i had nowhere else to put these tiny rasboras that i catched, because they are so tiny and so easily being eaten if i had put them in any other tank so they had to go to the shirmp tank It's also kinda common to find in my place too, they are all over the replant rice paddies. It's true that they are rarely being sold as an aquarium fish for a fish tank but i still hope they'll be a little more appreciate in the hobby tho, especially for some neocaridina shirmp lovers
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I'm glad you pointed out that they tend to be very still and disinterested in small tanks. I have some honey gourami fry, and they were super active and had lots of personality when they were in a 10 gallon tank. But once I put them into a breeder box, they lost a lot of their personality and almost started acting depressed. So I put them back into a small planted tank and after a few days they got all their personality back! I'm guessing it's the effect of boredom, since most fish need some form of mental stimulation to act normal
My favorite nano fish. I still have 5 from a previous group of 8 I got 4 years ago. Mine eat everything, luckily. As long as it fits their mouth, they don't complain. I usually grind some of the bigger pellets I offer the rest of the fish, but apart from that, they eat the same stuff as "the big boys" (like harlequim rasboras, I mean 😄).
Currently, trying to increase the group to 12 or more, since they are in a 20 gallon with plenty of space.
Also, I'd like to add that they can be a wonderful mate for a betta since they share the same water parameters. For those who don't have or like shrimp (!), kuhli loaches can also be an alternative to help with the uneaten food at the bottom.
Let me tell you I love your videos. Not only the info and the image quality, but especially the pace. I find your voice very calming. Thanks a lot.
I so much wish to add the perfect fish to my neocaridina nano tank but as you mentioned, those are so rare to come by that I'll settle for the chili rasbora
I almost wrote: You have only one, right? Then I heard you say that you have a pair... :) I wish you success in multiplying them...
Great video as usual!
I have 5 of these in a nano tank (6 gal) along with 5 Chillis and all 10 swim around together as a group. They feed quite well on finely crushed flakes. Not picky at all. I just give a light tap to the glass and all ten come running for food! I also have a Placo and 3 pigmy corys in there and everyone is fine. My tank is heavily planted and completely natural - no chemicals and my reading are always spot on. I never do water changes and only top off evaporation. Mine are in the USA and I am pretty sure they were born in captivity not wild. Which may explain why you have no touble with them feeding
Since you mentioned them.. chili rasboras next! :))
Very interesting, thanks :)
Are these also known as spice rasbora (Boraras urophthalmoides)?
Dang they look sweet but don't like the idea of wild caught animals being transported half the way around the world.
Yeah, we don't have yet teleporting platforms... And imagine, probably the hobby is even older than you and me...
I'm not a fan of it either. Fish don't take transportation as well as I'd like, and I'm also not a fan of wild-caught because of the impact it can have on wild populations. I wish it were easier to tell exactly where a given individual fish in the hobby came from.
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Totally agree, Lizzie. 💯
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I don't have to imagine that the hobby is older than my 64 years, I know it as a fact.
Which means at this point we have plenty of variety to chose from that doesn't require taking animals from the wild.
@@pencilpauli9442 My problem is that I'm restricted to extremely small tanks, and a lot of nanofishes are newer to the hobby, present in smaller numbers, and more likely to be wild-caught than many fishes. Many nanofishes are bred in captivity, but figuring out which species, and which individual fishes, is a guessing game. Neocaridina shrimp fine, Endler's livebearers fine, H. amandae fine, Boraras who knows? brigittae more likely captive bred than most Boraras but my info is years old and I just don't know. Which is really annoying because Boraras are exactly what I want to keep. I'm also interested in breeding them, if I can get that to work. Scarlet badis who knows but I suspect the ones I had in 2016 weren't because they refused anything but live food, which was a pain and came as quite a shock and a scramble to get hold of. If I'd realized that ahead of time I would have steered clear of them. It's the lack of information that gets me.
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