I am a horrible photographer but wanted to share some pics. Here is some back story for those that are not familiar
Rhom
- Kept this guy for nearly 17 years. Grew him from 2-2.5in to about 11in.
- He has a great personality. When small he was super aggressive and would try biting me or objects through the glass. He is really active and patrols the tank. When I am in the room he always follows me and watches me
- Sadly in the last 1-1.5 years he has developed HITH that I have tried to treat many times and been unsuccessful. He has drastically dropped off on eating which is what makes it difficult. He feeds about once a week which is a small piece of shrimp and makes it impossible to get enough medicine into his system. He also goes on frequent fasting periods of 3 to 5 weeks
- You can see how severe the HITH in the pics and sadly it is now expanding to the other side of his head. I have started thinking about if I make the decision to fish him out of the tank 4-5 days in a row and use a syringe to put epsom salt/metro+ directly into him to treat the HITH. My concern is this will be extremely stressful and his age could be more detrimental
- His current home is a divided 180g tank where he has 2/3 of the space.
- You will see in the one pic my rhom followed me to the end of the tank to watch me while I took a pic of my manny
Manny
- Picked this guy up last June and looking to keep him long term just like I have done with my rhom
- I am guessing he is between 4-5in. He has definitely grown since I got him but I am guessing it is like 1/2in to 3/4in
- He is still very shy so it is very hard to take pictures. He has some really nice color to him and still has some of the "tiger stripes" but they are almost gone
- He eats about 2-3 times a week and is fed with bay scallops stuffed with red sumo pellets. I would like to get him onto pellets only but in 180g divided tank that is almost impossible, especially with all the flow
- He has started coming out more and when I am sitting on my couch he comes out to patrol. He clearly loves to antagonize my rhom
Tank Setup
180g tank divided
3 AC110s stuffed with biomax and half the foam that come with them. This way I actually have more bio than a FX5 (what I used to have), tons of flow, and lots of surface agitation
Jebao powerhead that gives up to 4,000gph but set at 50% 24/7
Finnex 24/7 48in light that is set on the 24/7 setting so there is always light but simulates that of a normal day
Rhom
- Kept this guy for nearly 17 years. Grew him from 2-2.5in to about 11in.
- He has a great personality. When small he was super aggressive and would try biting me or objects through the glass. He is really active and patrols the tank. When I am in the room he always follows me and watches me
- Sadly in the last 1-1.5 years he has developed HITH that I have tried to treat many times and been unsuccessful. He has drastically dropped off on eating which is what makes it difficult. He feeds about once a week which is a small piece of shrimp and makes it impossible to get enough medicine into his system. He also goes on frequent fasting periods of 3 to 5 weeks
- You can see how severe the HITH in the pics and sadly it is now expanding to the other side of his head. I have started thinking about if I make the decision to fish him out of the tank 4-5 days in a row and use a syringe to put epsom salt/metro+ directly into him to treat the HITH. My concern is this will be extremely stressful and his age could be more detrimental
- His current home is a divided 180g tank where he has 2/3 of the space.
- You will see in the one pic my rhom followed me to the end of the tank to watch me while I took a pic of my manny
Manny
- Picked this guy up last June and looking to keep him long term just like I have done with my rhom
- I am guessing he is between 4-5in. He has definitely grown since I got him but I am guessing it is like 1/2in to 3/4in
- He is still very shy so it is very hard to take pictures. He has some really nice color to him and still has some of the "tiger stripes" but they are almost gone
- He eats about 2-3 times a week and is fed with bay scallops stuffed with red sumo pellets. I would like to get him onto pellets only but in 180g divided tank that is almost impossible, especially with all the flow
- He has started coming out more and when I am sitting on my couch he comes out to patrol. He clearly loves to antagonize my rhom
Tank Setup
180g tank divided
3 AC110s stuffed with biomax and half the foam that come with them. This way I actually have more bio than a FX5 (what I used to have), tons of flow, and lots of surface agitation
Jebao powerhead that gives up to 4,000gph but set at 50% 24/7
Finnex 24/7 48in light that is set on the 24/7 setting so there is always light but simulates that of a normal day
