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The tail wrap on that beast is perfect.

Nice growout group. The primary thing to focus on is to get them on good constant protein feed. You are on a great start to have them on pellets already! Having said that, do not ever break that bond and feel the itch to introduce feeders just for the fun of watching them hunt. I would not...

Never had success keeping dats in a group peacefully. There will always be the usual bullying and chasing even at 2in sizes. That is just what they are programmed to do.. And i will just let them be. Some will tolerate while most don't. This is especially true with regards to tank size. You...

Not sure if the ban has been lifted in Thailand but any juvenile 3bars are definitely Indos. No LFS here at least dare to label ITs off as STs. The usual trade name 'Grade AAA 3 bars' has been floating around long enough for one to guess that there are indeed no juvenile STs for sale. One has...

The videos are interesting nonetheless.. and have been circulating around for a while now with no hard evidence to satisfy. Prices for these fishes (ITs) has been going up in recent years and are still available only seasonally. As far back as 15 years ago, tiny baby ITs were sold in feeder...

Try tetras, barbs or even rainbow fishes instead. Fishes that swim in the open.

Been using solely Prazi too lately for little tiny Dats with mixed results.. Wiped out 80% of the stock within 3 weeks, strictly following recommended dose though. Learnt a hard lesson on that one batch. Almost all that died were found with both their mouth and gills opened. As for the...

Thanks for this thread @krichardson. What I would like to understand is as far as medication goes, what would you recommend for newly acquired Dats while in quarantine? Symptoms include restlessness, sunken belly, sometimes seen swimming near the surface only at one spot.. scratching against...

Anyway.. keep updating this thread. We might learn something from you and Al Capone.

That syndrome is REAL and it annoys most NTT keepers ie Me. You have to face things like sunken belly, heavy laboured breathing, glueing itself in a corner of something.. For tiny baby Dats, fat is healthy indeed. A reputable exporter of ITs once shared that a healthy baby Datnoid should not...

The colour of its eyes though.. Any latest upclose shots?

Continue with BW. The trying part of keeping tiny Dats are coaxing it to eat. Just eat. Once the IT reacts to you feeding every single time coming up to the glass, drop in Mysis shrimp. It is way more nutritional. At such small size, I would jump on the chance to add bigger tankmates like...

Understand how hot and humid the water and air temperature is in that region. Interesting take on water temperature. I have always assumed that knowing NTTs originates from the Northern end of South East Asia, I would think that perhaps the water should be a little cooler on the lower 24s...

VERY. Tiny Dats are very fragile to the extend that once caught from the river, it would take a few weeks to a month before you can even think about doing partial water changes to acclimatize them to your city water. Even after growing them out to an inch or so, the next problem is to get rid...

An NTT on pellets already?! Great job with Al Capone! Mind sharing the water parameters of that tank?

Interesting that he has a black skirt tetra in as tankmate. Did mine with a school of black neons. In 2 days, he learnt quickly that pellets are food.

Feeding my 1" Dats mix of frozen mysis and krill. Eventually when they understand your feeding hand movement in front of the tank, they will rush to anything that drops into the water.

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As far as showing 'stable' colours, the species that generally has an issue and always in the spotlight is the Indonesian Dat (Microlepis) coming from Borneo. Even locals agree that majority of what they caught are mostly 'dirty' dats. Clean and 'stable' ones are packed differently knowing that...

That is true as most keepers observe the same thing most of the time. Feeding, presence of a threat; could be other tankmates, dim lighting, being handled out of the water etc. If anyone have kept Datnoid long enough, one would care less about the Dat being stable. I mean.. a true Dat keeper...