Ornate and friend(s)

[Rob909]

I’m pretty sure my ornate is a male. He’s about a foot. I’d say he’s about the same size as the fire eel. I’ve had the ornate since he was a 3 inch baby.

 

[Le JP]

Could you post some pics of the anal fin? Thanks for you reply!

 

[Hao]

View attachment 1341152 View attachment 1341154 View attachment 1341156 A couple more head shots because I really don’t know what I’m looking for lol.

I'm pretty sure its wild caught. Looks great!

 

[Matteus]

Who needs to spend money on a sponge when you have guppy grass clogging up your intake? (This is on a smaller tank I have going with some jewels in it.lol)

Mosey is doing great. One of my most consistent fish since I have had him since around January of this year. I’m torn, I want to get more polys to be friends with him but the general consensus I am getting is that ornate seem to be fine alone and not do much better with other tank mates. Also I am finding it hard to find any in my area big enough to stay with him. All others I’m seeing are either babies or $150+......

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So aquarium coop doesn’t ship to Canada and the closest thing my lfs had was a sponge filter. So that being said the sponge has a big hole all the way through it.

I figured I would hot rod the hot rod. I made an opening in the existing intake so I could fit the insert for the sponge filter on it. Then just filled the hole in the bottom with the regular sponge filter bottom. This was a little loose and I figured it might fall out so I zip tied it together. So far it’s Jimmie rigged up enough that if I don’t like it I will just drop the air stone and run that line into the sponge and keep the ac110. Now let’s see how it turns out.

 

[Go_redfish]

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Who needs to spend money on a sponge when you have guppy grass clogging up your intake? (This is on a smaller tank I have going with some jewels in it.lol)

Mosey is doing great. One of my most consistent fish since I have had him since around January of this year. I’m torn, I want to get more polys to be friends with him but the general consensus I am getting is that ornate seem to be fine alone and not do much better with other tank mates. Also I am finding it hard to find any in my area big enough to stay with him. All others I’m seeing are either babies or $150+......

Sounds like a good excuse to set up another tank and grow some out to me lol

 

[Matteus]

Looks like mosey is pretty close to 12” now. Probably a bit more than 1” thick. Eats well but super camera shy

 

[Go_redfish]

Becomeing more lovely all the time

 

[twentyleagues]

Still has a very nice pattern!

 

[Matteus]

Ok so I did something stupid last night.

I thought it would be ok, but it turned out for the worse. I introduced my bass into the 180 thinking they were big enough.

This morning one was gone and I’m almost 100% sure it was mosey. I’m super torn right now. I love mosey to bits, but I am also extremely fond of the bass. I’m reluctant to express love to the bass, since I have lost 3/6 so far to predation.

 

[twentyleagues]

Yeah if it fits in his mouth sooner or later it's probably going in there. They are known to catch stuff to big even and tear chunks off. But that is unusual and would probably need to be very hungry. I know someone who would feed his 8 sens frogs to watch them tear the frogs up as the frog were to big to straight swallow. He then decided to add other fish to the tank dont remember what kind but kind of expensive. Strangest thing they did the same thing to those fish. But its in their nature to eat smaller fish.