Red Neon Blue Eye - Pseudomugil Luminatus

The Red Neon Blue Eye is one of the most beautiful small aquarium fish on the planet. See how I keep and breed this little jewel.
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[@FatherFish]

I appreciate your effort here at YT. Focusing on a species and showing the depth of care provided offers the kind of information and experience that is genuinely helpful. You have inspired me to raise these lovely little fish.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot Father Fish. I feel confident, that you will succeed with the luminatus. All the best, Michael :0)

[@BentleyPascoe]

Your shot work is great, glad to see another person from Rainbowfish Live making videos!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot, Bentley :0)

[@berenicehickey9755]

I just bought some.Stunning little species.....

[@annalee7403]

Beautiful species cared for and highlighted beautifully. Thank you for sharing.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks for watching - and for your feedback, Annalee. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@FishEZ]

Absolutely stunning Michael! Thanks for putting out such quality episodes. When the weather warms let's talk Psuedomugil iluminatus.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot, my friend. Yup. We will get back to that. Cheers, Michael:0)

[@GreatWhiteNiko]

Just got 6 from a friend of mine for my birthday. Wonderful video - makes the gift even more exciting! Thank you for all the information!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Glad you like the video, and congrats on your luminatus. Cheers Michael :0)

[@thehornwortofhornwort9832]

This fish is on my bucket list.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hope you get it. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@sydneysangels]

Absolutely gorgeous fish and shots! I really appreciate the chill and informative video style. Thank you!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

My pleasure! Cheers, Michael :0)

[@davedrewett2196]

Absolutely stunning.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thank you! Cheers, Michael :0)

[@FatherFish]

absolutely stunning

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot my friend. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@Eryss_Official]

Gorgeous shot. They look so clear. I’m about to order some!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot, Eryss. Good luck with these small beauties. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@rajivnair3455]

Thank you for sharing information on this beautiful fish ❤

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thank you for your kind feedback, Rajiv. Cheers Michael :)

[@Hemlighetsmakeri]

Fantastic video, tusen takk 😍

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot. Mange hilsner, Michael :0)

[@mikeeblend]

Great video! Looking forward to more.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot, Mikee. Next one up is on Norman's Lampeye and Red Cherry Shrimp :0)

[@bluebowser3347]

I wish you would of continued this video format / series. I think it was the most educational and high quality species specific videos on youtube.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thank you for your kind feedback. I probably will someday, when time permits. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@sharonwhiteley4616]

Really like these fish❤

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks, Sharon. It's hard not to. Cheers, Michael 🙂

[@angiebear8727]

They are beautiful! Definitely my next species only tank species!❤

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks for your feedback, and good luck with the Luminatus. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@pjaro77]

I've got 12 of them in 60l tank. Beatiful fishes.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

I totally agree. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@arthur3545]

Love the video! Subscribed

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks for the feedback... and the sub! Cheers, Michael :0)

[@RudyDwiHandoko]

Great video

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Glad you enjoyed it. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@MrPaulmilk]

Love to watch your videos at nite so relaxing thks keep make videos

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thank you Gerald! Will do! cheers, Michael :0)

[@elmee96]

These fish are stunning! I wish you could ship some to Sweden. I would love to have your strain when my 200L tank is up and running.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks. Shipping live fish isn't good at the moment, with delays in shipping and cold weather. Hope you find some of these closer to your home. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@theloneaquarist]

Wonderful video. I'd love to see more on this species, specifically your strain.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot for your feedback. More stuff is in production :0)

[@DEXTER-TV-series]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium So were the stuff? One year passed!

[@Diwaystation]

I never seen this strain of pseudomugil , it' so cool. I'm from Indonesia btw

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks for your feedback Scofield. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@lillebrornmb]

Virkelig en flot video og Ligeledes fisk

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Mange tak, Nicolaj. De bedste hilsner, Michael :0)

[@christinepetersen2513]

I love these little guys. On Friday 10 of them will move in with me. And the red colour comes from the artemia.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hope your luminatus are doing fine. And yeah, artemia can definitively add to the color. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@carolmonster5736]

These fish and Chromaphyosemion Volcanum will move into my new tank soon. Your content on YT is inspiration and help for me, far away from being an expert. Would love to breed with Red Neons. Thank you for your assistance Carol

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Carol. Happy to have inspired you. Breeding these fish isn't difficult. Hope you succed. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@cliff_moniz]

Excellent video, thank you for sharing your experience with these beautiful fish. I have a small group as well, but have had a hard time breeding them. Do you think they are just as likely to breed in harder water conditions? I look forward to seeing more videos in this series.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Cliff. I have no experience on breeding these fish in hard water, so I can't say for sure. Do you observe any breeding activity? They might breed, but maybe the eggs won't develop in harder water. Cheers Michael :0)

[@vivalabad6]

Very cool video and what an amazing job you do keeping them! I just recently acquired some rainbows for the first time, and I have fallen in love! I got some pseudomugil furcata and 3 gertrudae. I think you are correct about the coloration - with good husbandry, live plants (especially moss and feathered plants used for breeding), and a proper diet they become MUCH more colorful than any picture I have seen online. My alpha male furcata has become so colorful that he has a vibrant red-tipped dorsal fin which I have never seen in any photo or video. Cannot wait to breed them!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks a lot for your response. All of the blue eyes are fantastic fish in my opinion. Breeding has been relatively easy with the luminatus, hope you furcata and gertrudae will prove equally productive. Cheers Michael :0)

[@petrapruter2704]

Wonderful, can you tell me please what kind of plant i can see at min. 4.27.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks Petra. The green moss-looking "plant" at 4:27 is actually a spawning mop made from synthetic yarn. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@dallasaquascapingguy]

I would love to get ahold of some of these!

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Charles. I think they are pretty common in the aquarium trade. Hope You find some. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@dallasaquascapingguy]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium just asked my local fish store and he said he can order them.....now I have to get a tank ready.....im so excited! thank you for introducing them to me

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

@@dallasaquascapingguy Great news. Good luck with these red and blue beauties :0)

[@xSpeedBirdyG]

Hey Michael.. I was wondering if you're from Denmark? i have been looking for the Red neon Blue eye for a while and was hoping to maybe aquire some fish from you, since you're obviously breeding them. On another note.. Awesome video man and awesome fish. You create some beautiful videos

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Matti. Yes, I'm from Denmark, but I don't have the Red Neon Blue Eyes anymore. Hopefully you can find them elsewhere. And thanks for your kind words. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@FishRfun]

Ordering a group of these for my 15g fluval flex. I've got pretty hard water, and my praecox rainbows in my 55g liked my water.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Good luck with these beauties. The Praecox are stunning as well. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@FishRfun]

@MichaelJensensAquarium actually I had to quit the hobby a couple of months ago due to health issues. The maintenance became too much. All the stock and both my tanks were given to my lfs who I know well and they're actually using my 55g and the stock as a display tank.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

@@FishRfun Sad to hear that. Good thing you still can drop by your local fish shop and enjoy your tank. Hoping for your recovery. All the best, Michael

[@FishRfun]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium much appreciated

[@jasongrimshaw-smith8369]

Thanks for the video and the info on your website. Your wife is one lucky lady. All those babies she's rearing :)

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Jason. You're welcome. And yes - she is ;) Cheers, Michael :0)

[@toquixi]

These fish are stunning, are they jumpers? was looking into getting some for my planted open top aquarium.

[@eezeybreezey]

yes, they will jump.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks... and yes. They might jump. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@jjxtwo1]

Just stunning!! I know that they typically have a relatively short lifespan. What is the lifespan you have experienced with your fish?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks Jeff. I haven't had any of these die of old age yet. I think my breeders are about 14 months old by now, and they act like crazy teenagers - so I hope they stay around for a while. Ask me again in a years time. But for now, they sure are alive and kicking ;0)

[@sonofodin7187]

Michael Jensen's Aquarium Are the fish still alive?

[@kiranghosh2667]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium how are they doing now mate?

[@stephenbainbridge6122]

Do you think they would do well with a Honey Gourami in a heavily planted 10 gallon UNS 60S tank?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Stephen. I think they will. Both species are small and peaceful - and their temperature requirement match up ok as well. Haven't tried it, though. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@botakbotik62]

Hello nice video!! Anyway pseudomugil is safe for shrimp? Or baby shrimp? I have paskai and luminatus

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks Lukky. They won't harm adult shrimps, but they might nibble a baby shrimp occasionally. If there's moss or other refuges for the shrimps - most of the babies will survive. Merry Xmas, Michael :0)

[@QPham-nz5po]

what do you feed urs? so far mine wont touch crushed bug bite flakes, or micro small bug bites. which almost all fish in my experience picky ones will eat

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Bruce, mine will eat just about anything that fits into their mouths. Brine shrimp, small daphnia, microworms, small mosquito larvae and crushed flake food. What you are offering, sounds just fine as well. Can there be a problem with your water quality or circling of the tank?

[@mayat.151]

How much can I have in a 5.5 gallon planted tank ?

[@Spankyy811]

Hey michael, great video. Wanted to ask some question if its alright. I just got 10 luminatus and its already been 3 days but they still refuse to eat? Sometimes they nibble and spit out the food and swim away or they just dont care about the food at all. I have tried pellets, flakes, and frozen bloodworms. Is this behaviour normal? I dripped acclimated them for 1 hour before putting them in my aquarium and my tank is very heavily planted.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Sorry about the late answer, William. That is definitively not normal. When I have fish acting like that, live food seems to cheer them up adn start them feeding. Newly hatched brine shrimp is a favourite food for my Luminatus. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@BenR2410]

What size tank would you keep a group of these in? I have a 54 litre would that be alright?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Yes that would be fine for a group of 10 - 15 of these fish in my opinion. Cheers Michael :0)

[@BenR2410]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium excellent thats quite a few! i'll maybe go for 8, then get a few ottos and some blue shrimp to bring out the eye colour. Unless you still think i could get away with more than 8 still without overstocking, im running hightech with a fluval 207 filter as well

[@maniniscapes1936]

👏👏👏

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@danizm78]

hello you said these are endemic to australia, are you sure about that? i can't find any info

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi dshizzle, I said Australia and New Guinea, but it may be imprecise, since I seems that Pseudomugil luminatus is currently only known from south-central New Guinea in the vicinity of Timika, West Papua. At least as it's natural habitat. So Australia is not correct. Thanks for your input. I will correct that in my text (though not in the speak). Cheers Michael :0)

[@dreamkream3074]

can you mix all types of pseudomugil in one community tank?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi there. You could, but I would be concerned about cross breeding. I try to keep the strains pure. But otherwise I don't see a problem with that. Cheers Michael :0)

[@BrianMax]

Beautiful little fish. I keep Pseudomugil Furcatus in a 20-gallon high tank with celestial pearl danio, clown killifish, and endler guppies. My tap water is quite hard, so I add some peat moss to the HOB filter. They all eat flake food and baby brine shrimp. I have lots of fry, but I need to wait until they grow out to see if there are anything besides endlers reproducing.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Brian. Sounds like a great combination of cool nano sized fish in that tank. I see the the Celestial Pearl Danios entering my fish room someday soon ;0) They look fantastic. Will be interesting to see if the egg laying fish will be able to reproduce in your tank, without the fry being eaten. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@StagnantMizu]

Haha I have the exact same community in my mind. I already have the endlers, rasboras, corydoras julli, neocaridina shrimp, nerite snail and I intent to add the pseudomugil and maybe a Bluefin nohto killifish or sparkling gourami

[@henryp3114]

Is it possible too breed collect and hatch eggs from a heavily planted 20gallon

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

You can do that, but you will only find a small part of the eggs. Might be better to catch the newly hatched fry in the surface, and move those to another tank. But the most effective way is the one I discribe in the video. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@no-knickers-emma1112]

Got 9 yesterday. Hoping mine are as colourful as yours.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Congrats Emma. Good luck with the small beauties. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@ArnoldQMudskipper]

Awesome fish. 666th subscriber 😈

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Thanks for feedback... and the sub! Congrats with the number of the beast. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@diegoramirez1679]

Which one is the parameter to the water PH,GH,TEMPERATURE?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Diego. pH is between 6.2 and 6.5, and the water is soft. PPM around 80 - 100. Temperature fluctuates between 20 and 25 C - only using room temperature to heat my tanks. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@spartiateahouhou2736]

hello everyone...I live in France...I had luminatus babies, who are 4 months old now.. I put mops, I always have 8 eggs per day...but after 48 hours they all turn white... my question, are my fish still too young?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

They are pretty young for breeding, but I guess the problem more likely could be in the water quality. Have you tested your water recently? Cheers, Michael :0)

[@jimizhoopla]

im stuck between these and green neon tetras

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Tough choice. They are both beautiful fish. The green neon is more difficult to breed though, if you have plans on that. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@jesselyons260]

Id love to buy some from you

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Jesse, I live in Denmark, so it is probably not an option. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@professorm4171]

They only live for 1 season (12-18 months)?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

I've heard that said as well, but the oldest of mine are more than 2 years now - and still going strong. So... that's not true. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@professorm4171]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium Thanks. Looks like they live much longer in captivity than in the wild.

[@NasiKeledek]

How do you get them to have red color in their body? mine is just yellow hmm...

[@Kelvinize12]

I got ask him also hahahahaha

[@NasiKeledek]

@@Kelvinize12 HAHAHAH

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Justin and Kelvin, I feel that the most important factor in getting that deep red coloration in this species is lots of small live food, small daphnia, copepods, mosquito larvae and brine shrimp. But that being said, a dark substrate helps a lot. My fish loose some of the glow, when kept over a light substrate. Good water quality and lots of plants doesn't hurt either. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@Kelvinize12]

@@MichaelJensensAquarium I'll try my best to provide live food. I'm feeding Microworms at the moment. Will consider other live food after you mentioned it.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

@@Kelvinize12 Cool. Try dark substrate as well, if you haven't already. Cheers, michael :0)

[@mucchio84]

Dove li posso comprare? Non li trovo da me😢

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

You can try Aquabid or eBay. Cheers Michael :0)

[@tobinguyen7513]

Do you sell any of them ?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Occasionally I do. But I live in Denmark, and I guess that's far from your home. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@marvinscotton8658]

How is the sex ratio of your fry?

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

Hi Marvin. As I recall it was more or less 50/50. Cheers, Michael :0)

[@pankildoshi289]

I wish there was no background music.

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

I hear you. I like it though ;0) Cheers, Michael :0)

[@AuroraBelicia]

iwak elek puol larang pisan opo apike seh

[@MichaelJensensAquarium]

I love this fish. It's pretty easy to keep and breed - and it is beautiful as well. Cheers, Michael :0)