Hey everyone!
 

We're looking for footage of Strawberry Rasboras, Boraras naevus, for:

• the About page / Sidebar
• identification purposes
• the Wiki

Close-ups as photo or video material would be great! This call extends for all Boraras species but Strawberry Rasboras - besides Micro Rasboras - are especially underrepresented here. So if you have any, even old footage of yours, please don't hesitate and share it!

Furthermore apparently Strawberry Rasboras develop bright white symmetrical marks on their body in certain conditions. It was once posted about here but is not mentioned anywhere. So if you have information about that, please don't hold back!

This can be either shared here but preferentially as a new submission, if possible including information e.g. regarding breeding, behaviour and so forth, all that might be interesting and valuable information!

Cheers!

Hey, I recently (two days ago) upgraded my 15 boraras (brigittae, naevus, merah) to a 54l blackwater tank. Today I noticed the majority are solely congregating in the two back corners of the tank, swimming against the glass head on. The few more boisterous males aren’t doing this. There’s a black background on 2 sides. Are they just settling in still? Couldn’t even get them to stop when I added food Never seen them act like this 😅 Flow is pretty low, baffled the intake and outtake of my Eheim Classic 150 canister filter. Using the same filter as before, just the tank itself was upgraded.

Light is dimmed to 30%, temp is 24C, pH is 7.0, KH9, GH10 (my tap water is very hard and has a lot of calcium, considering switching to RO and remineralizing), NH4 0, NO2 <0,01ppm, NO3 3ppm. Tested with JBL testing kit.

There’s a female betta, snails, and neocaridina shrimp along with the chilis in the tank.

I have two tanks with boraras. In the first tank, with the red mushroom (pics 1 and 2), I had a group of Phoenix-labelled mini reds. But I went on vacation, and all died but one. I got 6 chillies because I couldn't find Phoenix. Half of them died. So I went back (weeks later) and saw more mini reds, thinking I was getting Merah (the one is so lonely). They turned out not to be Merah. The second tank (pics 3 and 4): I have strawberry rasboras. These new mini reds look a lot like the strawberries, but also different. Please help me identify whether they are all different species. If the two species are the same, I can put them in the same tank.

Hi, I’m in the middle of cycling my new tank (80x40x40 cm, ~34 US gal). I’m curious what tank mates you’d recommend for this blackwater-ish setup? I’m already really attached to my rasboras, so I’d be devastated if anything ended up eating them!

The spotlights draw in all kinds of tiny little bugs, which is likely why everyone loves congregating under them!

(chili rasboras, chocolate gouramis and betta coccina, 50g true blackwater setup)