Wooo!! I managed to get one at last! Super excited. My first datnoid ever.. lol I'm hyped. Just got it in on Monday. I gave it a medication and salt bath, and so far it's doing pretty well in the quarantine tank and already coming up to me when I go near the tank. It's still a 2 inch baby in the flesh.
Check him/her out!
I believe this one to be a Indonesian microlepis species for sure. What do you guys think? I got him for around $16.00.
I CAN'T WAIT until it gets really big. I'll just have to be patient.. I heard they are quite slow growers. Hope you guys like the pics. I want to grow this dat to it's full potential adult size one day. Gonna be quite a wait, but worth it! Always fun to see fish grow up.
Soo a bunch of questions; I hope you dat experts and big fish hobbyists or guests don't mind.. Indo microlepis get around 12 inches to 18 inches, right? Or do they stop at 12 inches? Or get 24 inches?! Depends on the conditions? How do I tell if the Dat is a female or male? I really want to find out. Do you guys think Indo tigers are still being caught in the wild? Do you think mine is wild-caught? They haven't been successfully bred in captivity, I heard.. So, if my dat is wild-caught, should I bother to try and treat for possible internal parasites to deworm? I have a bunch of de-worming flakes I could use in the quarantine. I heard a lot of wild fish carry red camallanus worms and other diseases.. Levamisole is probably a good one to deworm.. I'm also trying to feed it fish flakes recently, but he/she just spits them out. Shucks. I've got some weiss's garlic liquid solution, maybe I could mix the flakes with the garlic solution and see if it would eat the flakes. New Life Spectrum pellets, perhaps it would like that as well. I have some frozen raw wild-caught shrimp as back up in the freezer that is for human consumption, is it safe for the dat? Worried about bacteria and etc in the wild-caught shrimp.. All right, so I've got the shrimp just in case it doesn't take flakes or pellets.
Geez lol sorry for the myriad of questions, guys.. I am just so ecstatic and curious about dats and how to care for them right now, my interest in them has really skyrocketed.
Talk to you guys later.
-William
Check him/her out!
I believe this one to be a Indonesian microlepis species for sure. What do you guys think? I got him for around $16.00.
I CAN'T WAIT until it gets really big. I'll just have to be patient.. I heard they are quite slow growers. Hope you guys like the pics. I want to grow this dat to it's full potential adult size one day. Gonna be quite a wait, but worth it! Always fun to see fish grow up.
Soo a bunch of questions; I hope you dat experts and big fish hobbyists or guests don't mind.. Indo microlepis get around 12 inches to 18 inches, right? Or do they stop at 12 inches? Or get 24 inches?! Depends on the conditions? How do I tell if the Dat is a female or male? I really want to find out. Do you guys think Indo tigers are still being caught in the wild? Do you think mine is wild-caught? They haven't been successfully bred in captivity, I heard.. So, if my dat is wild-caught, should I bother to try and treat for possible internal parasites to deworm? I have a bunch of de-worming flakes I could use in the quarantine. I heard a lot of wild fish carry red camallanus worms and other diseases.. Levamisole is probably a good one to deworm.. I'm also trying to feed it fish flakes recently, but he/she just spits them out. Shucks. I've got some weiss's garlic liquid solution, maybe I could mix the flakes with the garlic solution and see if it would eat the flakes. New Life Spectrum pellets, perhaps it would like that as well. I have some frozen raw wild-caught shrimp as back up in the freezer that is for human consumption, is it safe for the dat? Worried about bacteria and etc in the wild-caught shrimp.. All right, so I've got the shrimp just in case it doesn't take flakes or pellets.
Geez lol sorry for the myriad of questions, guys.. I am just so ecstatic and curious about dats and how to care for them right now, my interest in them has really skyrocketed.
Talk to you guys later.
-William