Me and two of my friends started to do some research(which took more time than expected) in order to contact a respectable good and honest breeder to purchase 2 REAL BLEEKERI females and 1 male. One of my friends has a "humungus Behemoth Fish tank" (2000 gallons). We had this noble idea of trying to reproduce them and if we success, we will try to contact the corresponding environmental authorities of Madagascar so that we can send them back to their original homeland (I know it sounds a little wacky but we wanna help to preserve them since as many of you know they are at the verge of extinction).
4 days ago they finally arrived! 3 awesome Bleekeri healthy adults of good size(obviously not fully grown, but about 7 inches) great shape and awesome color. While they get use to their new homeland each of us took one home. I got the male, where a 100 gallon tank fully aquascaped with hiding spots, light system, plants, sand, rocks, filtration system and top water parameters waited for him.
He is now doing great! He eats, swims, shows his beautiful color and spots/markins, et cetera...until I stay infront of the tank more time than what I believe he considers "neccesary" (the time it takes me to feed him). If I stay infront of his tank for more than 10 monutes he just kind of get under a log and lays down..like a dying fish...so I have to leave the room after a while he is swiming, eating and doing his stuff. Its kind of funny but I am afraid that when the time comes for him to move at my friend's huge tank with one of the females he could be so shy that the female might kill him or best case scenario..nothing will happen.
Please any advice based on a similar experience is appreciated.
Thanks!
4 days ago they finally arrived! 3 awesome Bleekeri healthy adults of good size(obviously not fully grown, but about 7 inches) great shape and awesome color. While they get use to their new homeland each of us took one home. I got the male, where a 100 gallon tank fully aquascaped with hiding spots, light system, plants, sand, rocks, filtration system and top water parameters waited for him.
He is now doing great! He eats, swims, shows his beautiful color and spots/markins, et cetera...until I stay infront of the tank more time than what I believe he considers "neccesary" (the time it takes me to feed him). If I stay infront of his tank for more than 10 monutes he just kind of get under a log and lays down..like a dying fish...so I have to leave the room after a while he is swiming, eating and doing his stuff. Its kind of funny but I am afraid that when the time comes for him to move at my friend's huge tank with one of the females he could be so shy that the female might kill him or best case scenario..nothing will happen.
Please any advice based on a similar experience is appreciated.
Thanks!