Retroculus Xinguensis and Lapidifer Growth Journal

[baseballman1321]

Quick picture of the lapidifer you can see the blue line under his eye starting to show up. for some reason the picture is washed out on a computer compared to an iphone or ipod maybe because I took the photo with an Ipad


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[Unattended Fish]

Thought I add some pics of mine here instead of starting another thread...

Last pic I am wondering if this is a xingunesis?? This guy looks alittle different from the other three.

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[Unattended Fish]

Couple more shots

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[baseballman1321]

Couple more shots

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Nice! About time you posted some pics the last one is a xinguensis. The lapidifers have real nice colors or their size i cant wait for mine to start coloring up. Have to be very patient with these guys lol


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[Unattended Fish]

Yeah sorry had them in a 20 and wanted to wait till they got rehomed to take some shots of them. Any idea on how to sex them? I think my two bigger guys are a pair but, not sure.

 

[baseballman1321]

Yeah sorry had them in a 20 and wanted to wait till they got rehomed to take some shots of them. Any idea on how to sex them? I think my two bigger guys are a pair but, not sure.

I have no idea. Personally i dont know any who has bred them. I would be curious how you would


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[Unattended Fish]

As of right now four of them got a 125g to themselves. Till they need more space gonna be keeping them I'm there alone or may put another sp. Of geo but dunno what I want...

 

[baseballman1321]

some more pictures I took tonight. starting to color up

 

[baseballman1321]

heres some pics of the xinguensis. you cant see in the picture but its getting orange dots on its anal fin which is exciting that some color is starting to show up. also the lapidifer looks to be getting a red tint on its upper caudal fin

 

[Mythic Figment]

Sweet. I just bought three wild lapidifers. They arrived today. Unfortunately, one didn't make it, but the other two seem to be doing well. They ate spirulina brine shrimp and blood worms for their first meal.

Any advice on keeping them? They 1.5-2" and are in a 20 high with 4 very small geo red heads and 7 small notatus severums temporarily. They will get their own 20 long in a couple weeks. I don't have a power head just yet to give them a current, but the tank is running on 2 sponge filters, so its plenty oxygenated.

I have read they are difficult to transition to pellets. What do you feed yours?


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