Red Neon Blue Eye (Pseudomugil luminatus) Biotope Aquarium Iweka River Southern Central New Guinea.

The Red Neon Blue-eye (Pseudomugil luminatus) is a beautiful highly sort after little fish ideal for the small nano aquarium and is one of the most colourful of all the blue-eye family, I have been asked by a lot of people about the habitat of this little fish but I myself have not been lucky enough to see it for myself. G.R. Allen, P.J. Unmack and R.K. Hadiaty did a very good article on this species in the ANGFA Rainbowfish page in 2016, I will put a link to it below.
I asked Heiko Bleher about their habitat and he informed me the plant species found in the area are mostly Hydrocotyle, Eleocharis, Microsorium and some areas Nymphaea species, with a hardscape of river pebbles and driftwood, after studying other similar species I thought they would normally be congregating in small heavily planted areas such as I have created away from other predatory species, so this is my take on their biotope I hope you enjoy the video, for more information check out the link below.
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[@sobieski478]

Stunning fish; simply but beautifully presented. Thanks from London.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching, yes they are very beautiful.

[@NaturalBiotopes]

Good job. An excellent biotope replicating the natural environment. I really liked it!👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! it's a tough one, there isn't much information on them, I hope I did them justice 🙂

[@joystic08]

Thanks Jason. You seem to outdo yourself with every new video!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for the kind words! It's been a bit rough the last few months with all the rains and flooding but I. hope it was worth the wait 🙂

[@rabmichelle7825]

Just lovely. No hype or sensationalism. Thanks for providing something as real as it gets.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

[@DepthsUnknown]

very nice tank and awesome fish!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@reelgal06]

Simply Beautiful!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank You! 🙂

[@f1fan3000]

really nice video. your channel is a true gold mine for the australian aquarium biotope region, which is in my opinion severely underrated.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! I'm happy you enjoyed it 🙂

Fantastic 👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you.

[@jokervienna6433]

For nano fish, these must be second to none. Their private space seems to be five cms around the male in "breeding mode". Also, extremely beautiful. As always, very nice tank and great video!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! they are cool little fish.

[@reelgal06]

I thought this was filmed in the wild. Great biotope such an inspiration!!!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! that means a lot, I'm happy this has inspired you 🙂

[@disgustedvet9528]

Another beautiful presentation .

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you 🙂

[@elishapadget82]

Fantastic video, love the music, love the fish!!!❤

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you!🙂

[@honeyholehuntersfishing]

so peaceful and relaxing to watch!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@UKFishCam]

Been waiting for an upload from you! Hope you are doing well, another amazing video

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! yes I have been kind of busy and we have had some wild weather, it was great to get a chance to get to do a bit of filming 🙂

[@UKFishCam]

@@australianbiotopes4563 I know the feeling! It rains almost non stop here so the water is almost always super murky! It also doesn’t help that when It’s no r I’m usually busy!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@UKFishCam they have just finished cleaning up from the last floods we've had here and it's flooding again, some wild weather, we wen't through years of drought and now it's flooding on a regular basis, at least when it all settles there should be some nice clean creeks here, a lot of them have been dry.

[@UKFishCam]

@@australianbiotopes4563 hopefully that’s the case! Would always like to see the revival of old aqua systems

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@UKFishCam Some take ages to bounce back others do it almost instantly, being that some got flooded a couple of months ago this 2nd good rain should do well for them.

[@lamkins2276]

Beautiful fish and tank!

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@lounegri997]

Beautiful! I fell in love with the pseudomugil luminatus but was unsuccessfull finding more about the biotope (in my country anyway). Thank's to you I now have something to work on, to set up a good tank for futur fishes.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you for watching, I'm happy it helped you. 🙂

[@Lazarusthefishboy]

Real nice setup there man! It's looking great and your pseudomugil luminatus look stunning! Awesome video mate! 👍

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! 🙂

[@mraquaticnews5676]

Awesome video good presentation!! New subscriber here!! UK FishCam mentioned you

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you!, and Thank you for subscribing 🙂

[@PERUN-44]

Although we humans create beautiful things, nature does it much better. Regards

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Agreed 🙂

[@DEXTER-TV-series]

Very nice! 💚

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you!

[@intothenight9256]

Fantastic! Subscribed!!!👍🏼

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you!

[@gouravcullen6779]

Excellent biotope for them. Do you need to cover the top of the tank from preventing any jumping accident? Are they jumpers?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! no Blue-eyes aren't really jumpers, it would probably take something really bad to scare them for them to even try.

[@Tucompamark]

Thank you! I love it

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thanks for watching 🙂

[@Natures_Son]

Iwaka** river is still in perfect condition. It is easily accessed from the road from Timika to Kuala Kencana. Turn left towards the fire station and then turn right towards the gravel road. Follow the gravel road to the creek (2km) or walk from R.T 5, Kuala Kencana (3km).

[@Natures_Son]

There are heaps of rainbows, coal grunter, catfish, gudgeons and glassfish as well. Great biotope by the way.

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! do you have any photos of the above or below the water habitat? if so any chance you could email me some for reference, I'd like to do another one of these for my studio in the future, and you wouldn't know of any other fish species in there? Thank you! my email address is [e-mail].

[@australianbiotopes4563]

@@Natures_Son I just read the second reply from you sorry, you wouldn't know what type of rainbows?

[@Natures_Son]

@@australianbiotopes4563 you're welcome. I'll have a look on my hard drive and if I have any I'll email them to you.

[@Natures_Son]

@@australianbiotopes4563 I am not sure. I wasn't as interested in fish at the time as I am now. There are heaps of rainbows in there though. I found the best way to catch them is on a TINY hook baited with worms. The Iwaka River is crystal clear, lightly vegetated, fast flowing with a mostly river pebble bottom with small sections of sand. The banks are completely covered in incredibly luxuriant rainforest. There are quite a few submerged tree and roots from the surrounding vegetation. The water is quite cold (22 degrees?) In the shaded areas. Many people visit the areas accesible from the gravel road, some to swim and others to spear fish with home made spear guns. West Papua would be paradise if it weren't for the Indonesians. The presence of the Indonesian military makes the area surrounding Iwaka River very dangerous for West Papuans and foreigners alike. If you decide to visit, I suggest you engage with Indonesians (many in Timika and West Papua in general are intel posing as civilians) and particularly the Indonesian military and police as little as possible.

[@samuelwright9255]

Look great mate. Did your friend say what kind of invertebrates you'd find in the same areas?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you! no unfortunately.

[@keithlowe5512]

Lovely fish, great tank. I wonder what their lowest temperature tolerance actually is?

[@australianbiotopes4563]

Thank you, their tolerance isn't that great I've been told, I've had friends loose them for putting them out to soon inn spring.