well i may have to put my buttikoferi in the 30 gallon for awhile now...i came home from work last night and he had been getting beat up by my much smaller dovii...i am getting a 135g or larger next spring so i hope he makes it in the 30g until then.
cons for feeders
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you carnt use jd for feeders ther too cool and they dont bread that easy and firemouth are supposed 2 be quite hard because when they pair up its not for life
yeah i almost felt bad about thinking ofusing convicts for feeders...but then i thought about it and it didnt seem that bad of an idea...and once i got this Dovii, all other smaller cichlids dont seem as interesting anymore (except my butti of course)
ewok;951976; said:i havent personally done that - i guess there's something sad to me about feeding one cichlid to another... feeder goldfish are something else though
I feel the same way...I don't think I should, cause I'm sure that baby con's get picked off in the wild. Why else are their parents so darn tough pound for pound...but none the less, I don't feed baby cichlids to other cichlids. I just like cichlids too much.
haha so it looks like you have 2cichlids then lol i would love to have a dovii, i worked in a shop for a couple of days and my mate was feeding him angel fish that was funny the dovii would inhail it
I know it feels weird feeding cichlids to cichlids, but not only do baby cons get picked off in the wild, but there is a whole group of cichlids (guapotes) that specialize in feeding on smaller cichlids.
When you look at jag's (any parachromis really) and snooks and things like that feeding. ot's obvious where many cichlid fry probably end up. I may try it sometime. I'd like to use a breeding pair of cons in my guapote tanks to keep them active and stimulated, but if they beat the bleep out of the cons I'd feel bad. They wouldn't be swallowed in one bite, they'd actually be torn up.
Has anyone had success keeing a pair of tough little cons in with fish like mine...Trimac's or RD's in a large tank?? Or do the cons always end up being destroyed??
Has anyone had success keeing a pair of tough little cons in with fish like mine...Trimac's or RD's in a large tank?? Or do the cons always end up being destroyed??
