Yesterday my sister was sick so I got to mooch off her trip to the doctors office (over in St Louis) and seize this as an opportunity for fish.
I bought 6 peacocks and I can already tell who the dominant male is. I have one dark one which I thought was the male in the first place, but now I think it is the female since it shows no color on the face like the others.
They are settling in fine, but I have a couple questions.
These don't dwell in the rocks like the Mbuna do they? I bought about 30+ pounds of slate for the tank and only used about 1/3 of it. Granted there are already decorations in the tank, I set them up as view blockers (vertical and against the back of the glass) and set the rest up leaning on the decor and such, but it seems like only one is really using them. I will maybe wait until aggression is a problem and use the excess slate as an emergency territory divider or something.
Also, they are a bit small to be fed my cichlid gold mini pellet and they don't ever come to the top anyway. I am using an emperor 400 and a powerhead in the back corner. I think I am going to take the powerhead out because it seems like they aren't too fond of the current. Is this why they aren't going to the top?
Last night I feed them some frozen spiriluna brine shrimp and turned the lights off pretty early. This morning I fed them some tetracolor flakes, but I am thinking of trying some of my african cichlid attack sinking pellet that I use for my handicapped bloodparrot and african leaf fish.
Any suggestions for a staple food? I don't want to just fed them SBS all the time, but they loved that. They did go after the flakes as well, but not as much as the SBS.
Ok last question. Should I get more than just 6? I am thinking of going back and getting another 4. Maybe that will help disperse the aggression when they are small and then I can decide who needs to go back to the LFS.
Thanks for all your help.
I bought 6 peacocks and I can already tell who the dominant male is. I have one dark one which I thought was the male in the first place, but now I think it is the female since it shows no color on the face like the others.
They are settling in fine, but I have a couple questions.
These don't dwell in the rocks like the Mbuna do they? I bought about 30+ pounds of slate for the tank and only used about 1/3 of it. Granted there are already decorations in the tank, I set them up as view blockers (vertical and against the back of the glass) and set the rest up leaning on the decor and such, but it seems like only one is really using them. I will maybe wait until aggression is a problem and use the excess slate as an emergency territory divider or something.
Also, they are a bit small to be fed my cichlid gold mini pellet and they don't ever come to the top anyway. I am using an emperor 400 and a powerhead in the back corner. I think I am going to take the powerhead out because it seems like they aren't too fond of the current. Is this why they aren't going to the top?
Last night I feed them some frozen spiriluna brine shrimp and turned the lights off pretty early. This morning I fed them some tetracolor flakes, but I am thinking of trying some of my african cichlid attack sinking pellet that I use for my handicapped bloodparrot and african leaf fish.
Any suggestions for a staple food? I don't want to just fed them SBS all the time, but they loved that. They did go after the flakes as well, but not as much as the SBS.
Ok last question. Should I get more than just 6? I am thinking of going back and getting another 4. Maybe that will help disperse the aggression when they are small and then I can decide who needs to go back to the LFS.
Thanks for all your help.
