i have an one inch he is very cute and lives to eat he is with happy tank mates in a thirty soon i will get a bigger tank i hope but soon i want it to be just a tank of oscars and dats so i can just put feeder fish in then be gone in an instant also i went wit the amazon theme i got a driftwood that tints the water a yellow kinda color and he looks like a beast in the tank he is lik the dominant of the tank. a one inch dat eats a ghost shrimp thats amazing bottom line is that the indo dat may be the best fish i ever had!!!!
How do YOU care for your baby Indo's?
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Ok... I have had two small 2 inch indos. In jan/feb 2013. Grew to 4 inch to date. Then last weekend, my 15 inch gsr snapped and held the baby indo in its mouth. I had to wack it twice with my feeding tongs... and eventually it let it go.
Both indos are now in a friends grow out tank.
Indos are such a tough fish. Even with bite wound open flesh.. the baby indo still ate prawn the same night.
Its doing fine now.
Same happened to a baby Indo about a year ago. My ray must have caught it and crushed his whole head. Fish survived and recoveres fully. So I gave it to a friend.
No more small fish for me.now.
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Both indos are now in a friends grow out tank.
Indos are such a tough fish. Even with bite wound open flesh.. the baby indo still ate prawn the same night.
Its doing fine now.
Same happened to a baby Indo about a year ago. My ray must have caught it and crushed his whole head. Fish survived and recoveres fully. So I gave it to a friend.
No more small fish for me.now.
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Are AT dat owners welcomed to share?
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I have 5 which have grown to 3-5" since august. They reside I my main tank and I bought 5 more 1 inchers recently. Guess what!? They have all stated to take pellets without effort. Thankfully I don't have to go through the ordeal of training like the other ones I have
I started my Datnoid in my smaller grow out tank originally about a month ago. I got 2 so that I could pick the better of the two at some point (and in case one dies) or if they were fine together, I might consider both.
37 g tall
natural gravel
rock caves with larger rocks covering almost the entire bottom so they could swim around feeling covered
Driftwood with Java Moss
50g sponge filter
80-82 degrees
weekly 40% w/c
2 indo datnoid -1" or smaller
housed with two blue acara
a school of "porkchop" rasboro (for dither)
a school of red tetra (for dither)
and some cories
obviously the rasboro were eaten quickly even though they were the same size as the whole datnoid (lol) My oddball indo dat soon became the dominant and pushed the smaller one into the corner. I separated them by putting the smaller one in one of my clear breeder boxes and started power feeding it.
Then I did some rearranging and stuck my 5" pbass in the 37g along with two juvenile severum. I did this because I successfully pellet trained the pbass, but unfortunately that also meant that it was going to grow even faster. So I switched everyone around because I know the dat will blow up in size in my 125. As soon as they aren't snack size, pbass will be moved into the same tank with them.
Currently the two dat are housed with a bunch of juvenile SA cichlid and seem actually quite happy with their colors super vibrant now. I'm assuming they are happier and also get along now because there is a TON of hiding spots. We have a 8 ft 240 gallon now and will be setting it up as soon as we build the stand for it in December. They will be moved into that along with my pbass, arowana, and whatever other monster fish we end up getting. Then upgraded to a 540 in about a year.
Currently feeding bloodworms, live minnows/guppies, live rasboro (lol) and raw market shrimp, but plan to pellet train (have nibbled a little on the hikari pellets)them once they are a bit larger and stronger. I really liked some of the suggestions on here to get them onto pellets and will be adding some extra things to their diet.
One is 1.5"-2"and the other is just under 1.5"
10/16 a few days after getting them. the larger oddball
Same oddball a few days ago
the smaller of the two a few days ago, was completely brown/black when we first got.
37 g tall
natural gravel
rock caves with larger rocks covering almost the entire bottom so they could swim around feeling covered
Driftwood with Java Moss
50g sponge filter
80-82 degrees
weekly 40% w/c
2 indo datnoid -1" or smaller
housed with two blue acara
a school of "porkchop" rasboro (for dither)
a school of red tetra (for dither)
and some cories
obviously the rasboro were eaten quickly even though they were the same size as the whole datnoid (lol) My oddball indo dat soon became the dominant and pushed the smaller one into the corner. I separated them by putting the smaller one in one of my clear breeder boxes and started power feeding it.
Then I did some rearranging and stuck my 5" pbass in the 37g along with two juvenile severum. I did this because I successfully pellet trained the pbass, but unfortunately that also meant that it was going to grow even faster. So I switched everyone around because I know the dat will blow up in size in my 125. As soon as they aren't snack size, pbass will be moved into the same tank with them.
Currently the two dat are housed with a bunch of juvenile SA cichlid and seem actually quite happy with their colors super vibrant now. I'm assuming they are happier and also get along now because there is a TON of hiding spots. We have a 8 ft 240 gallon now and will be setting it up as soon as we build the stand for it in December. They will be moved into that along with my pbass, arowana, and whatever other monster fish we end up getting. Then upgraded to a 540 in about a year.
Currently feeding bloodworms, live minnows/guppies, live rasboro (lol) and raw market shrimp, but plan to pellet train (have nibbled a little on the hikari pellets)them once they are a bit larger and stronger. I really liked some of the suggestions on here to get them onto pellets and will be adding some extra things to their diet.
One is 1.5"-2"and the other is just under 1.5"
10/16 a few days after getting them. the larger oddball
Same oddball a few days ago
the smaller of the two a few days ago, was completely brown/black when we first got.
