made my decision for my open live bearer tank... Limia Islai, to go in with the cherry shrimp..

[Magnum Man]

I have a group of 6 coming... as long as the weather holds, supposed to be warmer than normal for the next 2 weeks...

 

[emeraldking]

Love them just like the other limias of mine...

Hope you'll enjoy them as much as I do once you have them...

 

[Magnum Man]

my group of 6 are delivering on 2-11

 

[Magnum Man]

these fish are much larger than I expected... adult fish???

 

[emeraldking]

these fish are much larger than I expected... adult fish???

How small did you expect them to be then...? Mines vary between 4-7cm.

 

[Magnum Man]

most of my reading said between 1.5 and 2 inches adult sized... at least one was 3 inches... so they all appear to be adults... my tiger teddies were maybe half grown adolescents, when they came...

 

[emeraldking]

most of my reading said between 1.5 and 2 inches adult sized, at least one was 3 inches... so adults, my tiger teddies were maybe half grown adolescents

Tiger limias can become bigger than those 2 inches. If you keep them in a small tank (or better said: A small open space), they'll have a stunted growth. For I'm keeping these Limias for years and I know from experience that they have the potential to grow up bigger. Not all info on the internet state correctness. Especially when the wrong info is copied so many times to other sites or pages, one could believe that the info given is correct. But that's the danger on the internet. Copying a text is too easy. And those who do that don't always verify the info on correctness.

 

[GaryE]

I got fooled on the trade name, and was thinking you had tiger teddies (Neoheterandria, a Genus of small fish). I've never seen a small Limia. Sizes are relative, but they tend to be mid-sized - not micro-fish at all.

It's the old Haitian Limia. That's the common name for Limia islai in the sources I looked at years ago.

 

[Magnum Man]

I now have teddies and limia

 

[emeraldking]

That's the common name for Limia islai in the sources I looked at years ago.

And the name "Limia islai" is just a few years old now.

 

[Magnum Man]

So I immediately lost a couple, when I noticed that while wrestling with a plant in the tank above, the day before, I accidentally unplugged the heater to this tank, and several hours before the fish arrived, I did a 1/3 cold well water, water change, when I noticed them going into cold shock, I found the unplugged heater, and plugged it in.... looks like 4 of them came out out it... the tank was 60 degrees F. at the time, and the heat packs in the box, still very warm, so a big shock... 4 still look good today a couple days later... there are 3 inch fish in my tank, hoping they aren't too hard on the cherry shrimp, as I expected smaller... this is the sellers info, on these fish..

 

[emeraldking]

Mine do well at 20°C. But mine got used to it starting as babies to adults. If they've been kept higher, an instant downfall of the temperature is not what they like.