Ahhhhh thats it....i really like them
75 going on 180
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Ahhhhh thats it....i really like them
I could go on about the ctenopoma all day he's a super cool fish. From what I understand they are usually pretty chill except for the if it fits ill eat it thing. (but we understand that) Only a couple of his spots merged, hopefully he stays like this. I would never get rid of something because the colors faded but if they are pretty it easier to over look some of the "bad' stuff they do. He eats anything I feed, algae wafers, cichlid pellets, shrimp pellets, carnivore pellets, krill, apparently giant danios, possible kribenses, might be why his colors are so good. My wife loves him (shes in there right now talking to him). She says he looks like a grouper which is one fish she wanted when I had salt that I never got. Anyway cool fish I highly recommend one if you have the means.
He is a really gorgeous leopard bush fish - seriously striking. Probably the nicest larger one I've seen. I really loved mine. Loved the way he looked, swimmed, and he was really interactive and a food beggar. Yeah, he eventually started eating my rummynose and cardinal tetras but that was understood when I bought him at 1", that it would happen and I'd move those fish when it did. I was transitioning my tank from a SA community to a more predatory one.
But then he started picking on/constantly chasing the large bodied tetras like my white tips and congos and it was stressing everyone out. He was acting like a cichlid. It's not super common but it's not unheard of either I guess. And it wasn't over one spot - he would search them out to chase them. So I re-homed him but would consider one again in my larger tank with other tougher fish that could take it or push back.
Mine also ate literally everything I put in the tank. He would gorge himself though, almost to the point where I was worried he'd eat himself to death. LOL He was tank raised - sort of like some CB polys get here - chow hounds that don't stop. I will always have a fondness for him but in my current tank if I removed the tetras I would lose most of the middle water movement.
Was yours stalking prey maybe? If mine thinks it'll fit it will stalk all the way across the tank to "try" it. He thought he could eat one of the dels one day because he just saw the head and he was on it. The del was like "really!" and came our to meet him needless to say he went right back where he came our from like " nope case of mistaken identity sorry". But I've caught him doing that a few times on different fish. I have a purple spot gudgon that had to go in the overhead sump because it was going to go down one day.
+1 on the leopard Ctenopoma as a looker 
I have a group of 5 in the 5" range, but their markings are not as pronounced.
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I have a group of 5 in the 5" range, but their markings are not as pronounced. O
Really nice, im amazed that they it didnt get washed out from the white substrate.
I think it effects LJ more. My old moke never looked washed out on pfs.
