{"id":2734,"date":"2024-09-12T18:04:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2734"},"modified":"2024-09-12T18:05:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:05:30","slug":"microctenopoma-fasciolatum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2734","title":{"rendered":"Microctenopoma fasciolatum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8216;Banded Bushfish&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/microctenopoma-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/microctenopoma-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/microctenopoma-1.png 640w, https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/microctenopoma-1-300x213.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought a group of young fish at an auction; I believe they were raised by Mike Fries. I kept the group in a 30&#8243;\/25 gallon tank and they got along fairly well but I waited forever for them to spawn and\/or be sexable. They did get bolder bands and\/or faint stripes from time t time but it was never obvious to me if that implied sex. Finally I had to just take a guess when pairing them up, going more by body-type than coloration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once a pair was isolated it did spawn eventually, building a standard surface bubblenest. The fry were quite a bit bigger and sturdier than your average Asian gourami fry and I raised quite a lot of them. It&#8217;s really a sharp-looking fish, but not flashy enough to make it into an average community tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should note that the &#8216;micro&#8217; in the genus name is compared to full-sized bushfish which are big, saucer-sized predators. When fullygrown the fasciolatum were about the the size of macropodus or largish dwarf gouramis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Banded Bushfish&#8217; I bought a group of young fish at an auction; I believe they were raised by Mike Fries. I kept the group in a 30&#8243;\/25 gallon tank and they got along fairly well but I waited forever for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/?page_id=2734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2734","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2734\/revisions\/2739"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}