Galaxy

Any one have any exp in keeping such fishes? Bought mine with sunken stomach. Must have starve for a while. Keep them for a week or 2 now, some are still eating very little and stomach still sunken. Any idea what food they like? Tried small pellet, powder food and frozen blood worm with limited success.

From my observation,they seems to be quite blind and cannot see the food. They are neither surface feeder nor ground feeder. They only eat what is floating/sinking in mid water.

Any ideas if they are live bearer?

[jere]

Any pics bro? Nv heard of it before leh....

Name : GALAXY RASBORA
http://www.aquabid.com/cgi-bin/aucti...ins&1165729385

[Ah_ZhaN]

There are many discussions of this species in AF if you bother to do a search around. Just when I though they are newly discovered and thus limited, suddenly the whole singaporeans seems to own them already.

To me, they ain't fussy fish to start off with. I fed mine with dry daphnia mix bought from Eco culture. They will accepted any food actually and prefer to attack any food sinking on their way down to the tank bottom. Food that sink to the bottom of the tank, they will clear off later...therefore, nothing to worry about. Even if you feed sinking wafer/disc, they will gladly nibble and consume as well.

For breeding wise, some folks from petfrd.com have been trying real hard. Here's the link:
http://www.petfrd.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20442

[onlyyouknow]

Originally Posted by weesy74

Any one have any exp in keeping such fishes? Bought mine with sunken stomach. Must have starve for a while. Keep them for a week or 2 now, some are still eating very little and stomach still sunken. Any idea what food they like? Tried small pellet, powder food and frozen blood worm with limited success.

From my observation,they seems to be quite blind and cannot see the food. They are neither surface feeder nor ground feeder. They only eat what is floating/sinking in mid water.

Any ideas if they are live bearer?

They are not blind lah. Mine feeding well on dry food and they do take a variety of food. If they don't feed probably sick. I believe they are egg layers since they are no visible sexual organs to suggest that they are live-bearers.

[Ah_ZhaN]

Matt Clarke explains how to keep and breed the newly discovered Galaxy or Fireworks rasbora, Microrasbora sp Galaxy.
http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.u...article_id=557

Breeding: Pete Liptrot and Paul Dixon of the Bolton Museum Aquarium were the world's first fishkeepers to spawn this species, and they managed to do just a couple of weeks after the fish first became available in the UK. Very little is known about reproduction. Paul says that he observed a brightly-coloured male attempting to drive females into a spawning mop and Pete found seven small eggs in a clump of Java moss a week later and spotted some fry which had already hatched. Said Pete: "The eggs have been laid over Java Moss and appear to be only very slightly adhesive, they drop out of the moss very easily. We've removed the moss to another aquarium to see what else hatches. As we were moving the moss one of the smaller males was very busy hunting around for eggs or fry."

I think Paul Dixon is one of the 'folks' I am refering to from petfrd.com .

Thanks for all the direction and info. Will go read the links provided.

Seems very interesting. Is there any particular special needs or requirements for this fish?
Is air stone or filter needed if I am setting a Nano tank?
Whats the best water temp for them?

Read the top links. A lot of info there.

may be starve too long no apetite lieow