I ordered from Wetspot this week, and just received my order today. The fish I am most excited about is my Astronotus Crassipinnis, or Big Eye Oscar. It is the only other officially recognized species in the Oscar family, and the largest recorded wild fish was ~10 inches, though who knows how big they get in captivity.
I already love this fish! I expected he would be pretty shy, since that is what I had read, and because he is wild caught, but he is not at all. He is so graceful, and glides around like he is floating, but he is purposeful, examining everything and coming up to the glass to look at me. He is only about 3 inches now, and is temporarily in a 90g tank with the other fish from the order, 5 Green Chromides (for duanes), 6 Biotidoma cupido, and 6 Gymnogeophgus "blue neon".
I did have my 5 Satanaperca luecosticta (my other favorite so far!) that I ordered in there as well, but they came in at only 1 inch, but he kept sidling up next to them and seemed like he was trying to figure out if he could fit them in his mouth, so I fished them out and put them in a different tank. So far he has shown no unsolicited aggression to the other fish, but he seems to quietly demand their respect. The Green Chromides, who are about the same size as him, keep brushing against him as they school, and he just turns around and looks at them, and immediately they back off. One made the mistake of nipping at his tail and as quickly as a snake strikes he whipped around and was ready to fight, but since the Chromide wanted none of that, it went no further.
And he since he is a growing boy he has an appetite to match. When I fed the tank everyone ate, which I was very pleased about, but he never stopped eating til every scrap was eaten off the sand! His little belly was positively bulging with bloodworms and mysis.
I will try to post some pictures but I only have my phone camera, so I can't get those beautiful pictures than people can.
I already love this fish! I expected he would be pretty shy, since that is what I had read, and because he is wild caught, but he is not at all. He is so graceful, and glides around like he is floating, but he is purposeful, examining everything and coming up to the glass to look at me. He is only about 3 inches now, and is temporarily in a 90g tank with the other fish from the order, 5 Green Chromides (for duanes), 6 Biotidoma cupido, and 6 Gymnogeophgus "blue neon".
I did have my 5 Satanaperca luecosticta (my other favorite so far!) that I ordered in there as well, but they came in at only 1 inch, but he kept sidling up next to them and seemed like he was trying to figure out if he could fit them in his mouth, so I fished them out and put them in a different tank. So far he has shown no unsolicited aggression to the other fish, but he seems to quietly demand their respect. The Green Chromides, who are about the same size as him, keep brushing against him as they school, and he just turns around and looks at them, and immediately they back off. One made the mistake of nipping at his tail and as quickly as a snake strikes he whipped around and was ready to fight, but since the Chromide wanted none of that, it went no further.
And he since he is a growing boy he has an appetite to match. When I fed the tank everyone ate, which I was very pleased about, but he never stopped eating til every scrap was eaten off the sand! His little belly was positively bulging with bloodworms and mysis.
I will try to post some pictures but I only have my phone camera, so I can't get those beautiful pictures than people can.
