Badis sp. "Scarlet"

["Kevin Korotev" <kkorotev@ameritech.net>]

Fellow Badis lovers,
Forgive me, but there's been a mistake.
It is my understanding that the Badis sp. "Scarlet" is a unique dwarf
species.
I have spawned the Badis badis. This little beauty doesn't
seem to follow the same rules. Does anyone have experience with THIS fish?

Kevin Korotev
Milwaukee, WI
USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "David A. Youngker" <nestor10@mindspring.com>
To: "Apistogramma Mailing List" <apisto@majordomo.pobox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 7:29 PM
Subject: Re: Badis sp. "Scarlet"


> From: Ken Roese
> Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 4:22 PM
>
> > P.S. The badis is classified as a perch.  According to
> > what I've read, it used to be considered a cichlid but
> > was given it's own family (Badidae) in the Perciformes
> > order.
>
> They're known as "Indian Blue Perch", coming from the Surinam. (Now, I
> guess, the "Indian Scarlet Perch" in this form  ;-)  )
>
> At first, I thought I'd stumbled across an Apistogramma I hadn't seen
> before. Drove the List nuts trying to ID it as the shop didn't have a
clue.
> In fact, the original page I used while trying to ID it is still up at
> http://www.mindspring.com/~nestor10/apisto_or_no.htm . A young enthusiast
> from Europe actually IDed it from that picture - almost as quickly as he'd
> seen it.
>
> If I remember correctly, it also points out the differences in the sexes.
>
> Maintenance temp of 74- 79F, 23- 26C, and a breeding temp of 78- 86F, 26-
> 30C. I kept them in the 78- 80F range myself.
>
> Medium hard water, 140- 220 ppm (mine was 140), pH close to neutral (mine
> was 7.4), slow- medium circulation (I used a Penguin 110 on a 20-gal
long).
>
> The ones I had preferred live foods and were a bear to break into freeze-
> dried. They never really became enthusiastic about flakes. The fry seem to
> refuse anything that isn't moving under its own power. Freshly- hatched
> Artemia work just fine, and adults will take mature Artemia dead or alive.
>
> They need a lot of cover, being a fairly shy fish. Given a lot of places
to
> hide, they become much more active and willing to stay in the open. Dither
> fish don't seem to make a real difference except at feeding time. Given a
> little competition, the Badis eat really well.
>
> A couple needs about two feet of tank floor to interact well. There should
> be some caves about the bottom also. They are definite cave- spawners with
a
> twist. Like Anabantids, the male guards the nest until the fry have
absorbed
> the yolk sacs and are easily free- swimming. Then they are simply
ignored -
> by both parents. Neither seem cannibalistic.
>
> The male will guard the nesting site with some vigor, rivaling the
behavior
> of a true cichlid. It is for this reason the female should have a ready
> escape site - once the brood is set, the male doesn't care for any more
> company until he is free of this batch and ready for another. Other fish
may
> have a hard time getting near the site any time after the male has staked
it
> out. Defensive attacks consist mainly of quick, intense rushes toward the
> offender without any real nipping. Another male may trigger a bout of
> "shadow boxing", with the two flaring and jockeying for position then
> perhaps a little "face sucking" among friends. It may look innocent, but
the
> lip- locks can get pretty serious.
>
> Don't make the mistake of placing any shrimp you'd like to keep, or much
> smaller fish, in the same tank. They will waste little time in literally
> blinding the target, then ripping it to shreds for devouring it. Given a
> large enough group, it's almost like a pack of wolves on the hunt. One
will
> make the disabling thrust, then suddenly everyone has bloodlust. Given
what
> I'd seen of them until that point, imagine my surprise when half a dozen
> Bumblebee shrimp (at $4 US each) were all in pieces within fifteen
minutes.
> Well, I thought they'd be all right, as they were 3/4 the length of the
> Badis.
>
> I saw them do the same thing to a couple of their own "teenaged" males who
> thought they'd wrest a cave from an old- timer. And again, once the
> disabling blow was thrown, everyone took a sudden interest in the
shredding
> process...
>
> -Y-
>
> David A. Youngker
> nestor10@mindspring.com
>
> PS of my own -
>
> I _did_ let Nature take its course, and finally had to get rid of the
little
> "fry factories". I believe David Sanchez still has a pond or two full of
my
> original stock...
>
>
>
>
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