i love these. some people say they are less colourful than other pseudomugils. but the northern variety (i believe most signifer in the aquatic pet trade are northern subspesies because the southern ones have adapted to temperate/cold water) of pacific blue-eyes are the most outgoing pseudomugil period. probably because their natural habitat in mid-north qld is a series of very sparsely vegetated slow moving streams. they have no place and no need to hide. in the aquarium, that translates to constant top-tank shoaling and never too shy to impress people walking by. they really deserve the popularity of other sister species.

Loving watching your videos mate :) Im from the east coast of Australia and love all the varieties of Psuedomugils we have available.

also, if the adults throw eggs onto a mop can I just take the mop and place into a ten gallon tank with anacharis and bacopa that I have cleaned very well, and let it hatch in there. I have a little java moss to add and I can certainly buy an amazon sword, or valsneria so the tank is half filled... or do I actually need to transfer the eggs from the mop to the plants in the hatching tank. I have a lot of mops to rotate. your thoughts?

They are actually a Blue-eye not a Rainbowfish, they are in the same family but not genus, it would be like calling a human a chimp or gorilla, we are in the same family but not genus, just a bit of trivia for you, the southern forms of these are much smaller and get along much better in schools were the northern forms get much larger and are really aggressive so need much more space, I've found in a 8ft tank I can keep around 4 of the males with more females of the northern fish where with the southern ones you can keep them in a nice group in a small aquarium, the southern form seems to like spawning in vegetation in groups where the northerns one male will guard a area of about 1 metre and spawn with multiple females but in a gravel or sand bed as most places they frequent up in the northern parts of the country isn't very vegetated more of a granite rocky bed, not a lot of people keep the northern ones for this reason, they are also much bigger getting up to 90mm in some parts and probably should be split as another sub species, they live anywhere from full salt to pure fresh in there distribution, I hope this is helpful, I subbed to your channel, thanks for asking me all the questions on mine, I always love seeing people interested in our natives 🙂

Doesn't your snails and shrimp eat the Pseudomugil eggs?