SPECIES SPOTLIGHT - Melanotaenia Boesemani | A Beautiful Rainbowfish

Just a quick edit: Some in Europe have seen Kromsa reach just under 4 inches. Aves Creek is an unknown of size so far. Will keep updated when I know for sure.
This is a look at one of the hobby's favorite and well known rainbowfish. But is it as well understood as we think it is?
I go over various strains of Boesemani that are obtainable in the hobby such as the commercial Ayamaru form as well as its tributaries such as Kromsa and Aves Creek. I also clarify the verbiage surrounding the Aytinjo location and the mistake Heiko Bleher made when documenting Lake Uter. I touch on the newly discovered Kali Fitri fish that Hans Evers found as well as some of the relatives of the Boesemani. These fish include other rainbow fish from the Bird's Head peninsula such as Melanotaenia Fasinensis and Melanotaenia Ajamaruensis.
There are even contradictions in regards to the care and water parameters needed to sustain this fish. But I guarantee you there is really only one thing that you really need to keep this fish and it shouldn't come as a surprise.
I tried to keep the video informative, yet entertaining. The addition of memes were fun for me but I also withheld some of them and also forgot to add a couple things. Editing in the twilight hours of the night does something to the brain lol..

[@nancyreamy3702]

A lot of great interesting facts! Thanks for putting this together for us.

[@HoonAquatics]

Thank you for the comment

[@LimHuiChuan]

Thanks! I'm keeping them too and really into rainbowfish for now.

[@lilynorthover8378]

Another great video! Wow, youre over 100 subs now! Won't be long to your first thousand. Love the memes.

[@HoonAquatics]

Thank you Lily! Haha glad you watched far enough to see the memes. That was my favorite part of editing the video 😅

[@scottrandall8556]

Another great videos

[@tkaiser2086]

Great video.

[@mikesaquariums4293]

Great Information 👌

[@GeorgeAAquatics]

I really like the information in this video I do have 5 of these fish and I can tell 2 of them look the same but the rest individuals are different. Absolutely stunning fish. Awesome video my friend

[@HoonAquatics]

Really appreciate that George. You have some great looking bows 🤙

[@alexcrowl]

I like the super niche rainbowfish stuff. Hopefully once some of these collections become more widespread maybe we'll see rainbows finally get the love they deserve in the hobby. I'll be watching aquabid for some

[@HoonAquatics]

I enjoy other fish other than rainbowfish but because of the niche... many species die out and are no longer in the hobby. Preservation of rarer but beautiful species are my focus

[@HoonAquatics]

Just a quick edit: Some in Europe have seen Kromsa reach just under 4 inches. Aves Creek is an unknown of size so far. Will keep updated when I know for sure.

[@amazingaquaticsandexotics3030]

awesome vid

[@aquariumtreasures1054]

Very pretty fish. 🐟🌿👍😊

[@HoonAquatics]

Thank you!

[@otallono]

i noticed my boesemani does not have much of a blue or black front but when turning out the lights at night I can see they get very very dark I can't tell if it's black or dark blue.

[@Cgraseck]

Great Vid! I have Aytinjo in a 75 over black substrate. When they fire up at sunrise the males are black up front. Beautiful fish! Cheers, Chris

[@HoonAquatics]

Thanks Chris! Aytinjo is a beautiful form of Boesemani

[@wrxnfx127]

great video

[@HoonAquatics]

Thanks

[@kelleyforeman]

You used my pictures! My fish do become darker orange in the morning. That’s more of their afternoon color. I feed krill flakes, frozen omega brine and frozen blood worms. My water is kH 6.0 out of the tap. I have lots of plants and change the water 1-2x per week. So far, I’m very happy with them! Great video! Thanks!

[@HoonAquatics]

I hope that's okay with you! I tried to give credit to any pictures used. I think it should be a very nice location in the hobby

[@kelleyforeman]

@@HoonAquatics absolutely okay! We’ll have to compare fish in a year or two to see what we have. 😀

[@brianklimaszewski]

Good video! I thought of getting the aves from Dan, but haven't yet. Maybe someday I'll pick up some for another tank of boesemani. I would love to get my hands on some of the Utter collection point.

[@HoonAquatics]

I would recommend them. Dark substrate and foods high in astaxanthin. Will really make them pop. My favorite aspect certainly is that they've been letting their fry grow up with them so far

[@ADHDAquatics]

Just picked up this fish today, Gary Langs strain. Super excited to get into it

[@HoonAquatics]

Congrats, which location? He has a few nice locations of Boesemani

[@StanTheObserver-lo8rx]

I have 8 or 9 in the 240 gallon/920 liters. The first were typical LFS stock...a little pale. I later bought some with a stronger yellow,but still a pale blue. The last two I bought are starting to show a stronger color of them all. With a deep blue breastplate that I don't see on the others. The largest Boesy is near 5" with a deep and wide body..the dominant Rainbow in the tank even though a hybrid Trifasciatus is larger,its second in line.

[@drockingfish]

thanks for sharing! I bought the same locale from Dan!!! Keep them coming!

[@HoonAquatics]

Awesome Rocking Fish! How are yours looking? I'm very curious to see if color differences I've seen are dietary or due to background/substrate color

[@drockingfish]

@@HoonAquatics unfortunately the male does not have much color yet, they are in a 80 gallon community right now, growing slow as you know. My live daphnia crashed this summer, waiting for them to explode again so they can get live food and grow n color up!

[@HoonAquatics]

@@drockingfish Yeah.. even for rainbows they are very slow growers. Hope they color up for you soon. Ill be on the look out if you ever post a video on them!

[@drockingfish]

@@HoonAquatics yes i want to make videos of all my fish, but need more knowledge on editing first and need to find good lighting, most of fish downstairs, so hard to see with the lights i have, but i will try

[@alekkoomanoff7281]

Just ran across this. Second time growing Aytingo. Was intrigued by the Uter× Aytingo line. Is that still available? Tried to get Uter a while ago but wasn't among Universal 's favoured few.Thanks much for complete info.Next up, Kali Tawa.

[@peridot-20]

I've just added 4 young, in fast flowing water & are doing well in a pH of 7.6 & heat of 77.9f they're gorgeous & your information is excellent thank you 😊

[@robertbaker3174]

Great,now I got to see these other forms of Boesmani and will be thinking about where I will ever put them when they might be available!

[@HoonAquatics]

They're all very nice! I have seen other creek forms but the 2 main lakes but all similar

[@robertbaker3174]

@@HoonAquatics That almost black on the one Uter us wild! Seen the Kromsa that Gary had in AquaBid sereral years ago. My Antinjo were cool to watch growing out. Thought the lighter whitish stripes on with the blue was really cool. Like I said I truly don't know where I will ever put more tanks but like any hobby it gives us things to look forward to. Having recently getting back to collecting rainbows again after figuring out I had the Camallanus things are soooo much better. Funny thing though I seem to have lost all my easy low light plants back when I was treating tanks. How do you lose frogbit,java moss and java fern and water sprite too! I do have a question thought. Do you ever see rainbows have strange things going on with their lips sometimes? I have never seen males lock lips but every now and then their lips get a little skinned up. Never anything major. Some almost seem to have developed a bit of scar tissue? Thanks.

[@HoonAquatics]

@@robertbaker3174 yes thats a common question and occurrence for rainbows to get white lips. Sometimes its just ramming into the tank while sparring or when spooked. I never really worry about it unless some sort of infection occurs afterward. Nothing to really worry about!

[@robertbaker3174]

@@HoonAquatics Thanks. Never asked anyone since I first started keeping them. Never had so many before either! Scary after dealing with Camallanus. I thought I had TB in some tanks. I watched the mouths fall apart on some fish and happened to see an article on Loaches on Line about symptoms of the worms and was consistent with what I saw. No probs since but man do I get antsy when I see anything! Will continue to enjoy your updates and such. While I am thinking rainbows still I thought about when I had Running Creek Tri's. They were huge and very yellow! Hope things keep getting better and find some more some day. Good to see all the other hobbyist out there that appreciate them. Only thing better would be going there and collecting them and seeing where they live. Nature is awesome!

[@robertbaker3174]

Koemeng are coming along but lost my Parva when heat went off and on this winter. Have a plant ? if you would be so kind. Asked Bentley but he couldn't help. Thanks.

[@JolliBliss]

nice video

[@HoonAquatics]

Thanks!

[@salvolondon]

I have a baby boesemani ( probably a male cause he keeps courting the female guppies lol plus he’s very colorful despite being still super young ) a male ( dull in colori but defiantly male in behavior ) m. Australis and the only female rainbow is a m. Trifasciata , so basically I habe 3 rainbows of 3 different species , 2 boys and a girl . My question is , do you think they suffer not being in bigger group ? I’ve noticed the m. Australis and the m. Trifasciata stays together while the baby boesmani prefers the guppy company ... might be cause of his much smaller size ? You think it’s bad for him to be the only boesmani ? I couldn’t resist buying him , and I love the other two rainbows I have , they act great and they are growing fast , my point is , I can’t have more cause my tank is not that big , you think the nose and will adapt to Live with the other 2 rainbows of two different species ?

[@JakePlayz07]

Nice Video! I recently got some Aves Creek Boesemani Rainbows that are around the size of the smaller ones you showed frequently swimming around. Mine have slightly white lips only at the tips and sometimes have a white hanging scale like the boesemani you showed at 8:12 thats at the top of the tank. Is that mouth rot or just a normal injury?

[@HoonAquatics]

Rainbows bump into a lot of things. Though it is a minor injury and can heal by itself, it can also lead to infection. Not usually a huge deal. You may want to paint your sides of the tank so they don't ram into the side of the tank and can visualize there is a barrier if I keep swimming into this. Beautiful location of boesemani. Stunning fish

[@JakePlayz07]

@@HoonAquatics Thanks for the advice will def do that! I do have them in a planted tank atm but I can always add more plants! Love the black on these little guys haha

[@jasonliang9472]

Upper Tor spotlight when??? Let's hash it out in a scholarly manner

[@amrullahazif]

Hi.. if I mix bosemani and dwarf neon together, do they hybridize?

[@HoonAquatics]

Rainbowfish can hybridize. Even inter-genus mixing. Rainbows also breed every day. If kept in a community tank the fry and eggs will be eaten

[@patrickshaw5955]

thanks for the video. I loved the Attack on Titan reference haha :)

[@HoonAquatics]

Haha thank you! I wasn't sure if anyone was going to get the reference 😂

[@brianklimaszewski]

Great show!

[@HoonAquatics]

@@brianklimaszewski agreed!

[@treyreppe4348]

I also got some Aves Creek, ill have to feed them what you do. I also noticed the black coloration like the pictures you showed from kelly

[@HoonAquatics]

I think krill, plankton and anything high in astaxanthin will really help the oranges pop. It took a good while for them to develop much color. I'm also starting to deep some black in the morning but very briefly

[@treyreppe4348]

Right now I'm feeding blood worms in the AM then flake in the PM (switching between bugs bites and tetra color, the tetra has shrimp in it so that's where I think some of that astaxantin is coming from)

[@HoonAquatics]

@@treyreppe4348 some report bloat caused by daily feeding of bloodworms. I havent experienced it first hand though..so it maybe BS lol. I rotate daphnia, cyclops and spirulina brine as well as chlorella flakes. Lots of options out there. I always love a good variety

[@treyreppe4348]

@@HoonAquatics I just got chlorella flake but I want to use the flake i have before opening a new one. I will probably get a new frozen food and alternate it with blood worms next time I go to the store, I was also considering black worms since my LFS has then 🤷‍♂️

[@HoonAquatics]

@@treyreppe4348 I picked up blackwroms from my store that gets them shipped in. Took one look at the bag with leeches and planaria and ditched it. But great to get them spawning. How are your Aves creek looking? Good color yet?

[@mikezizis3725]

I have five large bosemani's in my 210 gallon tank trying to kill each other. Please help!

[@JolliBliss]

Hope to see half reds in Dubai

[@theloyalistspeaks]

why do some have this dark lateral stripe, while some dont

[@HoonAquatics]

Usually juveniles display this stripe while older fish lose it

[@theloyalistspeaks]

@@HoonAquatics ohhh that explains! cos my are juvis and i thought I got cheated by my local fish shop

[@user-qn6qb7ve4p]

like

[@AcuariosVoruko]

A wonderful video. spectacular, a real pleasure to see you. My name is Alex, I have a Spanish-speaking aquarium channel and I would love to be able to put a piece of your video in a new project that I am going to do talking about reproductions, Of course your name would always be reflected in the video and also I would leave the link to your channel in the video description. I look forward to your response and it would be a real pleasure if you would give me your confirmation, anyway thank you very much for sharing this wonderful video

[@HoonAquatics]

Thank you. Yes you may use some of the footage. Thanks for checking in. Please let me know if you have any questions 🙂

[@AcuariosVoruko]

@@HoonAquatics Thank you very much, for your support, I subscribe to your channel. it's a real pleasure

[@melaineturner8350]

Is there anyway I can get any females

[@HoonAquatics]

I am not currently breeding boesemani and probably will not resume breeding this species due to it's slow growth. There are a couple great sellers of Boesemani if you're in the US. I would highly recommend the Aves Creek or Lake Uter locations that sport amazingly intense orange. The Village of Aytinjo boesemani are the same collection point as the Lake Uter fish, but later generations of this bloodline are not nearly as intense in coloration as the Uter's that Gilbert Maebe brought to a convention in 2014 where Gary first picked up the Uters

[@thefishylife6823]

Bosemani are kings of the rainbows.... Yeah there's some Cool characters but none of the species come close to the popularity and notoriety of the King bosemani rainbowfish!!!!!!

[@HoonAquatics]

I certainly enjoy them but I wouldn't even say its in my top 5 of the species I'm currently keeping 😉

[@muddyriverdogz]

@@HoonAquatics Whats your top 5 ?