Your advice is a joke right.....the more I see it must be......this is the highlight! What size tank do you recommend doing this to for a Dovii to suit for life?
180 Big enough or not ?
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Your advice is a joke right.....the more I see it must be......this is the highlight! What size tank do you recommend doing this to for a Dovii to suit for life?
Your comparing to world record trophy fish. Nothing typical, nor average about these specimens. For every trophy fish there are thousands apon thousands that never come anywhere close to reaching this size. Unrealistic, IMO, to expect a fish will grow larger in captivity then a world record specimen. Now, maybe they might grow larger then your typical, average specimen in the wild (what ever that may be).
Anyone with half a brain who has seen an adult male dovii in an aquarium will realize a 180 is not big enough...
You know, cichlids in an aquarium tend to grow much larger than their wild counterparts. The reason mainly is consistant diet. In the wild, you will be hard pressed to find a manquense larger than 12", however in a fish tank, 18" is not uncommon. There are instances where humans changed the ecosystems. For instance, in central america where they started banana plantations next the water and as a routine toss rotten bananas in the water. Well the theraps group like black belts, learned to "peel" bananas like a chimp and grew to ginormous sizes.
20 gallon tank.
Complete with antigravity device, atmospheric water vapor accumulation device for constant water changes, and directional rotors wired into its brain. That way it can move around all over the house.
Kind of like bubble boy for the fish world.
The answer is no. I feel guilty keep my pair in a 300 gallon for the time being. They use EVERY inch of that tank. Beside what they need, I would upgrade their tank to an 8'x4' for now better reason than to give me more time to get out of the way when I see him coming at me when my arms are in the tank.. He bites hard.
Yes, some cichlids will grow larger in captivity then then your 'average' wild specimen. But managuense is no different then dovi, or any other sport fish for that matter .....in an aquarium, they don't grow any where near as large as a world record. The world record for managuense is 28" and 15 lbs.http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/perches/Parachromis managuensis.html
Where and how you obtain a fish in the wild, wil also be a huge factor in how large the fish is. If it's not a sport fish, and you collect them close to shore with small nets.....of course the collected fish will be small. If it's caught on rod and reel, most won't be that large, but occasionally an angler will land a huge one. If it's a comercial fish for human consumption, even larger ones can be caught with large nets. Both of these world records listed for dovii and mannaguense in this thread are listed as 'other' .....which i take to mean caught with a net. http://www.fishing-worldrecords.com/perches/Parachromis dovii.html
I felt the same way with a spawning pair then eventual 14" male solo in my 265g. Even at 14" and alone, that tank wasnt enough for him.
