Threadfin Rainbow fish, Peacock Goby?

[Sarah]

Hi, has anyone kept either of these two species?
(I have a plan  )

[Gingerlove05]

@"F3l1ss" keeps threadfins, she may be able help if shes about
I think Ian also kept them for a little while.

[Annie]

Oooo like a plan

[Stephen]

[quote=Sarah]
Hi, has anyone kept either of these two species?
(I have a plan  )
[/quote]

I have had both in the past but without much success.
The Peacock gobies are nice and only grow to about 3 inches.
Moderately soft and slightly acidic water is best, lots of cover, hiding places and some areas of fairly dense planting.

Threadfins can be more difficult, mine did not last long.

[plankton]

You do need the soft water for both.
My threadfins didn't do particularly well and died relatively soon, but then my dGH is 7.9. They should be able to take that, but, as with a lot of rainbows, it depends where the original batch came from, as the rivers in Australasia do range and they have been found in slightly harder water. I think that's what makes them difficult. They are beautiful fish though.

[Sarah]

You do need the soft water for both.
My threadfins didn't do particularly well and died relatively soon, but then my dGH is 7.9. They should be able to take that, but, as with a lot of rainbows, it depends where the original batch came from, as the rivers in Australasia do range and they have been found in slightly harder water. I think that's what makes them difficult. They are beautiful fish though.

Funnily enough I'm just testing my tank water to double check the plan isn't a non starter!.
The QT tank at the moment is
pH 6.6
Ammonia zero
Nitrate 5ppm
Nitrite zero
At the moment there are only a couple of assassin's in there.

The end product tank is slightly different
pH 7.4
Ammonia zero
Nitrate 5ppm
Nitrite zero
Our Northumbria water is soft ( will double check exactly) in a minute.
I could lower the pH a little.

[plankton]

You should still be ok if the ph is stable.
Try to get a mix of males and females (ratio 2 females per male) if you can. Females are coming into the trade more often than they used to, you could only get males. males go much brighter with females in the tank.

[Stephen]

[quote=plankton]
You should still be ok if the ph is stable.
Try to get a mix of males and females (ratio 2 females per male) if you can. Females are coming into the trade more often than they used to, you could only get males. males go much brighter with females in the tank.
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I agree.
At least 2 females to every male.

All the best

[F3l1ss]

Hey, I've got threadfins. 

My first batch didn't survive too well, only had one large female that survived any length of time but I guess I've had her a couple of years now? This year I got her some companions and had only one of those pass. I wormed them immediately and I think that helped. 

I've got hard water and they seem to be doing ok with it so far. They're in a 60L with one much larger recovering rainbow (was being starved out by bigger guys in the big tank) and also a little skitty about him they're pretty bold about coming out and saying hi and swimming about for food. They are still a gentler fish though and wouldn't do well with nippers or frisky mid to top tier fish.

My ratio is all 'wrong' as well as I have 1 female to 3 males, but to be honest as the female is the biggest of the lot it seems to be ok for now. I may get more when we move house and I get a bigger tank for them.

I feed them a range of foods, small pellets, repashy dust, frozen daphnia, and crushed up foods from my bigger rainbow tanl. The variety is what they need to thrive. I have fed live foods in the past but my supplier gave me a couple of poor batches so have stopped for now.

I love them, they're fascinating to watch and so beautiful. I look forward to being able to have a bigger batch of them as I think could then watch them all day

Anything else you want to know?

[Stephen]

[quote=F3l1ss]
I may get more when we move house and I get a bigger tank for them.

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Are you & H moving again?
Where to this time?