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Honey Blue-eye - Pseudomugil mellis

Honey Blue-eye - Pseudomugil mellis

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Honey Blue-eye - Pseudomugil mellis
The Honey Blue-eye was scientifically described by Allen & Ivantsoff in 1982. Its scientific name is Pseudomugil mellis . Earlier, it was considered a variety of Pseudomugil signifier.
Description
This small fish does not exceed 3 cm (0.8 inches) in length. It is called Honey Blue-eye since its colouration has the same shade as pale honey with bronzy sparkles.
The mature Honey Blue-eye male can be recognized on the distinct black submarginal bands that are present on his dorsal, anal and caudal fins. These fins also feature white margins. In some males, the first dorsal fin forms a (short) filament.
Geographical distribution, habitat and conservation
The Honey Blue-eye lives in streams and ponds near the coast in the south-eastern part of Queensland, Australia. Its natural range is very limited and consists of so called Wallum country between Brisbane and Fraser Island. The typical Honey Blue-eye habitat is a tea-coloured creek or dune-lake with really slow or virtually nonexistent current. Wallum is the local name for an Australian ecosystem characterised by deep, nutrient-poor acidic sandy soil.
The Honey Blue-eye is known to appreciate the protection offered by water lilies and grassy bank. The pH-value in the waters where you can find Honey Blue-eye ranges from 4.4 to 6.0.
Land clearing and housing developments have affected the small area where the Honey Blue-eye lives. Until 1996, the Honey Blue-eye was listed as “Vulnerable” on the IUCN Red List of Threatened species. Since then, it has been listed as “Endangered”.
Keeping Honey Blue-eye in aquariums
A 25 litre (6 ½ gallon) aquarium is large enough to house a small group of Honey Blue-eyes, as long as you know how to keep the water quality up in such a small aquarium. Strong current is not recommended in the aquarium, since the Honey Blue-eye lives in slow moving waters in the wild. This species is known to congregate along grassy banks and among water lilies and it is therefore a good idea to use plants – including floating species – to create hiding spots in the aquarium.
The recommended water temperature is 22-30 degrees C (72-86 degrees F). As mentioned above, the Honey Blue-eye is used to soft and acidic conditions and it is therefore best to provide it with such water in the aquarium. This species is however known to adapt to alkaline water up to a pH of 7.5 if necessary.
Keep your Honey Blue-eyes on a varied diet in the aquarium. You can for instance combine high-quality dry food with live meaty food, e.g. brine shrimp and daphnia.
Breeding Honey Blue-eye
The Honey Blue-eye reaches sexual maturity when it is roughly five months old and can be bred in pairs or groups. Keep your fish on a nutritious diet that contains plenty of live food and make sure that the aquarium contains a suitable spawning medium, e.g. java moss, floating plants or spawning mops.
Unlike many other rainbows and blue-eye, the Honey Blue-eye is more likely to spawn in the afternoon than in the early morning. The female can release up to 10 eggs each day, but most females release a much lower quantity. It is safest to move the spawning medium with the eggs to a separate container, since the adult fish might eat eggs and fry.
If you keep the water temperature is the upper part of the recommended range, you can expect the eggs to hatch within 9 days. You can feed the fry infusoria until they are big enough to devour newly hatched brine shrimp.
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Table of Contents : Quick Facts Photos Water Parameters Natural Habitat Diet & Feeding Sexual Dimorphism How to Breed
Photos of the Honey Blue Eye Rainbowfish
Date Added: 12/01/2021 - Updated: 02/02/2022 16:27:05
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Honey Blue-eye Rainbowfish are small stunning looking fish that make an excellent addition to a community tank. They are generally very peaceful and active chasing around other fish that are similar in size. However, the male can harass the female sometimes.
The Honey Blue-eye Rainbowfish are a shoaling species that does well with other peaceful species. It would be beneficial for these fish if you did not keep them with more extensive, aggressive, fin-nipping species, this would avoid any unnecessary stress for the fish.
These fish have moderately compressed and elongated bodies that are a pale honey colour with bronzy flecks. Males have brownish coloured fins that display distinct black submarginal bands and white margins.
The body scales are lightly edged with black forming an attractive latticework pattern. The female and juveniles have a plain, amber-coloured body with transparent fins. They have two dorsal fins that are close together, the first being much smaller than the second.
You can find Honey Blue-eye Rainbowfish in Southern Queensland in Australia. Its natural range is quite limited and consists of so-called Wallum country between Fraser Island and Brisbane. They inhabit tea-coloured water stained from tannins in lakes, streams, swamps and creeks with slow-moving almost still currents with nutrient-poor acidic sandy soil. Their habitats are covered in aquatic vegetation, mainly grassy banks and water lilies.
In the wild algae forms the bulk of the Honey Blue-eyes diet, with the remainder made up of insects and other aquatic invertebrates. In the home aquarium, you should provide them with a varied diet of high-quality dry food such as pellets, flakes and algae wafers as well as frozen and live foods such as daphnia, brine shrimp and bloodworm. These fish generally forage at the surface of the water.
It is effortless to distinguish male from female Honey Blue-eye Rainbowfish. Fully grown the males have distinct black submarginal bands present on his anal, caudal and dorsal fins and white margins. Some males also form a short filament in their first dorsal fin. In contrast, juveniles and females have a plain light-amber coloured body with small unmarked translucent fins.
Honey Blue-eye Rainbowfish are seasonal spawners and usually spawn between September to January.
The Honey Blue-eyes reach sexual maturity when they get around five months old or around 2 cm in size. You can breed them in either pairs or groups. Larger females produce many more eggs than smaller ones. in captivity males exhibit territorial behaviour guarding the spawning site against imposing conspecifics.
You should condition the fish with plenty of live or frozen foods before spawning and use a separate breeding tank with small clumps of fine-leaved plants such as java moss; this can be used as a spawning medium.
During spawning, the male raises his fins and swims around in zigzag patterns to block the femaleâ€™s retreat.
Unlike many other Rainbowfish that spawn in the early morning, the Honey Blue-eye is more likely to generate in the afternoon. The female Honey Blue-eye will only release a small number of eggs each day, usually 5-10 eggs every 24 hours. Once laid, you should place the eggs in a separate tank; otherwise, the adult fish may consume them.
Spawning can last around 7 to 9 days, and a total of up to 125 eggs can be released over that period.
The eggs will typically hatch within 5 to 14 days, depending on the water temperature. It would be better if you fed the fry with infusoria type foods or similar until they are large enough to consume freshly hatched baby brine shrimp.

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