Fp gresensi
Fundulopanchax gresensi Takwai
Fp gresensi Takwai were initially purchased as a pair at the BKA Convention Sunday auction in October 2016. This pair is still going strong as of Feb 2017, and have a number of young fry growing on for the next generation. The pair are housed in a 6 litre container with a foam filter and a couple of mops, and weekly water changes. I initially tried using my hard tapwater plus a small amount of salt (the same as that I use for my Nothos), but even though the adults were fine in this, I never found any eggs in the mops. Therefore I changed them over to a mixture of rainwater and tapwater (75%-25%), and now could collect 10-20 eggs every 2-3 days. The male is normally on show at the front of the container, just waiting to be fed, whereas the female stays around the mops until the food is added. The fry are being fed on a mixture of baby brine shrimp and microworms, and after a week or so in the small 0.5 litre container (no filtration, some Java Moss and a few snails) they are transferred to the fry boxes.
Now have 3 fry boxes containing this species. Have not done a definitive count but probably 30-40 fry in total, so more than enough for the next generation.
A lovely picture of this species by Hristo Hristov can be found at,
Fp gresensi Takwai were initially purchased as a pair at the BKA Convention Sunday auction in October 2016. This pair is still going strong as of Feb 2017, and have a number of young fry growing on for the next generation. The pair are housed in a 6 litre container with a foam filter and a couple of mops, and weekly water changes. I initially tried using my hard tapwater plus a small amount of salt (the same as that I use for my Nothos), but even though the adults were fine in this, I never found any eggs in the mops. Therefore I changed them over to a mixture of rainwater and tapwater (75%-25%), and now could collect 10-20 eggs every 2-3 days. The male is normally on show at the front of the container, just waiting to be fed, whereas the female stays around the mops until the food is added. The fry are being fed on a mixture of baby brine shrimp and microworms, and after a week or so in the small 0.5 litre container (no filtration, some Java Moss and a few snails) they are transferred to the fry boxes.
Now have 3 fry boxes containing this species. Have not done a definitive count but probably 30-40 fry in total, so more than enough for the next generation.
A lovely picture of this species by Hristo Hristov can be found at,
Well surprises are always nice to receive, and I got a wonderful one yesterday evening (27th Feb 2020). Previously in my Blog - Comments.
Now I have been maintaining Fundulopanchax gresensi Takwai successfully for some years, and even gave a trio to the 2019 BKA Convention, but since Christmas I lost both of my males, and from the last batch of eggs I only hatched females. So I have been looking around for a spare male without any success, and was thinking that I would have to purchase some eggs (probably from overseas) once some warmer weather comes.
Now prior to last year's Convention, the trio were isolated in a separate tank in order to make it easier to bag them up prior to travelling up to Wetherby. Now this tank (which is on the bottom level of my stand (hence cooler) was not needed until now (I have a lovely group of Fundulopanchax mirabilis mirabilis that I hatched from purchased eggs that will take up residence very soon) so yesterday evening I decided to clean out the tank. I expect that you can guess what I found, yes, a lovely, fully coloured male Fp gresensi Takwai. So he has now been transferred to the tank with the group of females, and hopefully I will be successful in getting eggs for the next generation.
Well the male is definitely working hard, as this evening (29th Feb 2020) I collected 14 eggs from the mops in the tank. So hopefully I will be able to maintain this species for at least another generation in my fishroom.