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Boesemani Rainbowfish
Melanotaenia boesemani
Family: Melanotaeniidae
📍 Ajamaru Lakes, West Papua
One of the most colourful freshwater fish, the boesemani rainbowfish sports a vivid split colouration — bright blue-purple on the front half and yellow-orange on the rear. Males colour up fully in well-maintained tanks with varied diet and good water quality.
Keeping this species
- diet
- Omnivore – flake, pellets, daphnia, brine shrimp, spirulina
- lifespan
- 5–8 years
- max size
- 11 cm (4.3 in)
- tank size
- 30 gallons minimum
- school size
- 6+
- temperament
- Peaceful, active
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Water it likes
- ph
- 7.0–8.0
- ammonia
- 0 ppm
- nitrate
- <20 ppm
- hardness
- 9–19 dGH
- temperature
- 75–82°F (24–28°C)
Natural Habitat Temperature
75°F — 79°F seasonal range · (Jan low, Mar high)