‘Vietnamese white cloud’
Shortly after these were first imported I bought a small group online. Initially I had 8 fish in a planted 12 gallon biocube; smaller fish started showing up in the tank a few months after the fish settled in.
Just as with T. albonubes, T. micagemmae fry can grow up alongside adult fish and happily subsist on flake foods.
Later I moved a big school of these into a 90 gallon planted tank, and raised hundreds more in simple moss-filled tanks. Fry yields were higher if I removed the adults but some fry would always show up in any tank with these fish.
This was the first time that I sold fish and then later saw people selling offspring of the fish I sold them. A nice feeling!
For a while I tried to line-breed a long-finned version of this species, and was pretty happy with the results. Other people have reported that micagemmae often develop long fins when older, so it’s possible I was fooling myself and every fish was already a ‘long-finned’ version if only I would wait.
