The Norman’s Lampeye Killifish or Poropanchax normani is just a beautiful little fish. It happens to be shoaling, and it is a great tankmate for shrimps. 3-4 years ago, the first group of Normann’s moved into our fishroom. They vent into a small 8-gallon tank together with a colony of Red Cherry Shrimps - and we made a video on this setup back then. The strain disappeared again, since we didn’t made an effort to breed these fish back then.
About a year ago we got Norman’s Lampeyes again. This time they were wild caught, so I was afraid they would be difficult to keep. Turned out they were settling inn well, though. But it was a small shoal. I think we got 7 fish.
Ulla really wanted a large shoal of these, so we started breeding them. We made a setup with yarn mops in a small tank, and collected eggs daily. After hatching the fry were brought up on infusoria, microworms and newly hatched brine shrimp.
As soon as the fry reached a size of half an inch, they were put back in a larger tank (15 gallons) together with the adults. The fry was fast and agile, and the adults didn’t seem to hunt them, and soon we had fry and youngsters of all sizes. The shoal was growing.
Then I noticed that, smaller fry started showing up between the surface plants. Much smaller, than the ones that we had moved from the breeding tanks. So obviously the fish were taking care of business themselves.
But by now, there was too many fish for the 15 gallons, and we moved them to an even larger tank, now a 24 gallons. With a max length of approximately 4 centimetres (1.6 inches) this fish is great for small nano tanks, but they just look great in a larger planted tank, when there is a large shoal.
They still live together with Red Cherry Shrimps, and it seems to work well. The shrimp colony is growing as well. The fish might snack a small shrimp baby occasionally, but with lots of cover in the moss and fine leaved plants, most will survive.
So they go along well, even though the shrimps might feel the dinner table a bit crowded from time to time. The lampeyes are fed a variety of live foods up in the water column, but they can’t resist the small sinking pellets I feed the shrimps.
But that’s just life. Even when you have nice neighbours, you need some privacy from time to time. And… there is plenty of room in the large tank.
So if you are looking for a beautiful shoaling killifish, that is relatively shrimp safe, give the Normann’s Lampeye a go.
Cheers, Ulla and Michael
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