3 inch Green Terror - colour/food etc...

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Marsh82

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Hi

I have a 3 inch GT, i got him at 1.5 inch and he had a really nice colour - the colouration on the edges of the fins was a lovely 3-tone yellow/orange and was nice and thick... as he's got bigger the colours stayed the same, but its got thinner...

Recently he's only eaten frozen feeder fish, however in the last 2 days ive managed to get him onto bloodworm again...

He's in a tank on his own at the moment, with sand/wood and black background...

Any ideas what I can do to colour him up? Will the yellow/orange coloration get more intense again with age?

some of the pics in the sticky GT thread are awesome! Id love mine to look like that


Cheers
 
It could be a female for one their band is not as thick as a males. Stop! feeding feeders if they are from your LFS, they carry deasises(I can't spell deal with it) and are not that good for your fish. Yes they color up around 4 inches. Feed blood worms, crickets, eath worms(Night crawlers) krill, and raw frozen shrimp thawd out. And keep it on a staple of pellets and what not.
 
I would try to get him on Hikari Cichlid gold pellets. The 1's that come in the red package.
These pellets help with coloration. I feed all of my cichlids this brand and they are all very clorful.
Also try some frozen krill, which is also good for cloration.

Good Luck
 
hey, the feeders arent live or anything... they are call Dillies, flash frozen... guess i'll try to wean him off them.

I did have a female, this one is longer bodied, and has longer fins etc... im 99% sure its male, can post pics though as dont have camera/pc connection. darn.

cheers
 
i notice a lot on various forums about people saying how their fish is drab or dull. and their are usually 2 common things between all the threads. they are water quality, or lack of, and using feeders, and the like, without using a good quality pellet. this is by no means concrete evidence but merely my observations.

you need to get him taking pellets, hikari cichlid gold, tetra prima/doromin etc. feed him that for a few weeks then once he is taking that without trouble add in a frozen food (no fish like you have been) like bloodworm then once that routine is established add in crickets, 2-3 times a week, a few weeks later. also try algae wafers, my GT took them faster than the other fish could get them.
 
cichlid2006;2024055; said:
i notice a lot on various forums about people saying how their fish is drab or dull. and their are usually 2 common things between all the threads. they are water quality, or lack of, and using feeders, and the like, without using a good quality pellet. this is by no means concrete evidence but merely my observations.

you need to get him taking pellets, hikari cichlid gold, tetra prima/doromin etc. feed him that for a few weeks then once he is taking that without trouble add in a frozen food (no fish like you have been) like bloodworm then once that routine is established add in crickets, 2-3 times a week, a few weeks later. also try algae wafers, my GT took them faster than the other fish could get them.
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Algae wafers?? I never heard of anyone feeding cichlids this type of food??:confused:
 
I feed my green terror algae wafers. Their the small ones by Hikari made for bottom feeders. I usually drop one in every day he is big enough to just eat it whole. They were meant for the cory cats but he likes them more so well their his now, lol.

Also I have been feeding my cichlids Wardley tropical flakes and even Wardley cichlid crumbles they are doing totally fine on them and ahve had them for 3-4 months with no ill signs of anything going bad or the color getting drab. Excellent color, great health and have even bred. The green terror has a great green to hime and a very bright orange with the green shimmering on it's mouth and it's bottom fin. I don't see why Wardley is considered a bad totally crappy type of food. I used to have convicts and they were of excellent shape and lived a long time till I had to let them go.

I mean you should vary the diet of course which I do. I feed the terror and the blue acara 3 times a day. Because that's what every fish brand says to do feed them 3 times a day 2-3 min. or whatever. So I wake up feed them some Wardley tropical flakes, what they will eat in about a minute. I of course feed the fry. Then I usually feed them around 3-4pm with a Hikari algae wafer for the terror and more flakes for the acara(she loves the flakes). Then around maybe 8ish I feed them some baby shrimp by Tetra not alot of course. And once or even twice a week I feed them a frozen food selection. Either bloodworms or veggie frozen cube or something. I have tons of frozen food cubes(I knew there was a plus to working at a pet store, lol).

So I don't see why Wardley is considered a crappy food. I mean if I just fed them the tropical flakes for their whole life without vary up their diet then yes my cichlids wouldn't be as good and healthy as they are now. But if you vary their diet like you suppose to them i don't see why Wardley is considered a bad food. Plus I don't ahve $10 bucks that I can spend on Hikari pellets or whatever for it to run out in 2 weeks. Sry if anyone is mad, but I don't see why Wardley is so picked on.
 
something other than fatty protein rich foods he will die of liver disease try krill and a mixture of vitamin rich food along with trace element blood worms are a terrible staple imo
 
the theory of fish foods are all created equal is false... they vary greatly in all aspects and no 1 food is universaly best for all situations.. try to match your fishfood up with its natural equivalant and provide supplements
 
any insects/feeders unless inhouse you run the risk of disease wich would end your persuit of coloration also can cause fish to become finicky eaters ive seen south americans eat algea wafers lol i dont personaly feed mine although my father uses them.... ive been using spirulina flake for a while super cool stuff that is and all my fish have had no problems taking it.... africans sa/ca livebearers
 
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