Anyone got tips on keeping Blue badis (Badis badis)?

[Fishfur]

I’ve been hoping to find this species for a very long time - they’re not exactly rare but just don’t show up often in stores around here. I’m tickled to death to have them at long last.

I have 9, but as yet have no idea of the sex ratio - they were so stressed in the store they were near colourless, poor things. They look to be adult but not quite fully grown just yet

They will be going into a long low tank - 4’ (122cm) long x 13” (33 cm) wide - 33 gallons (125l). It’ll have widely separated caves because I’m hoping they’ll breed.

If anyone has kept them or bred them, any tips on keeping them happy would be most welcome.

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

If anyone has kept them or bred them, any tips on keeping them happy would be most welcome.

I haven't kept them, but I think they behave like a dwarf Cichlid (Apistogramma etc). @DanDKJ keeps them (or similar species) <"Critique my hardscape - Start of my indostomus swamp">.

cheers Darrel

 

[DanDKJ]

I’ve been hoping to find this species for a very long time - they’re not exactly rare but just don’t show up often in stores around here. I’m tickled to death to have them at long last.

I have 9, but as yet have no idea of the sex ratio - they were so stressed in the store they were near colourless, poor things. They look to be adult but not quite fully grown just yet

They will be going into a long low tank - 4’ (122cm) long x 13” (33 cm) wide - 33 gallons (125l). It’ll have widely separated caves because I’m hoping they’ll breed.

If anyone has kept them or bred them, any tips on keeping them happy would be most welcome.

I keep them in a planted tank with plenty of hiding places. They seem to happily take frozen foods like bloodworms, artemia, cyclops. Ive not bred them as mine are all male, but they're great little fish.

 

[Fishfur]

I keep them in a planted tank with plenty of hiding places. They seem to happily take frozen foods like bloodworms, artemia, cyclops. Ive not bred them as mine are all male, but they're great little fish.

Thanks - it’ll be interesting to see what mix of the sexes I have once they colour up enough to tell.

Good to know they’ll take frozen food but there’ll be live scuds, fruit fly larvae & little snails that I squish so they can get past the shells among other live offerings.

I have read that males are pretty territorial when there are females & each should have his and own cave to claim, as far from other caves as possible.

I was hoping for 6 females & 3 males as I could put a cave at each end & one in the middle.

Time will tell I guess.