C.R.E.A.M 15 inches or Better !!!!!!!!!!!
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My Meta Orino's are now a year and a half old and i love these guys have a couple different variety's of orino aAnd ya your right i am definatly enjoying them and ya you know all to well the cost and time it takes But the payback of keeping them that i am just starting to see is just amazingCichlidgeek;4916436; said:Not too much, I don't mind, and thanks for the nice words.
For me it became too much after so long. I started keeping Cichla in 1995 and stopped last year (2010) ----- 15 years of keeping almost only one type of fish is a lot of dedication. I would get back into it if I could get Cichla sp. Xingu again. I had them a while back, the thread is here somewhere. I also like those Brokopondo C. ocellaris. To me they are the nicest ocellaris available, and they are the real C. ocellaris. Not the Florida hybrids, which also look nice usually, but are not authentic.
Those C. pinima were imported as C. temensis before we knew any better. They were tiny when I got them, maybe 3 inches or so at best. There were only 6 in the box, and they were super expensive at the time. I had a lot of fun with Cichla, and raised many to be more than a few years old. I wish more people actually kept the Cichla they buy to see them into adulthood, they would get a whole new perspective on what a special fish they really are. The next time I keep them I will again do it for the long haul, rather than just the flavor of the month, which is what I started do when more people wanted the fish. In the late 90's you could only get C. monoculus, C. ocellaris (Guyana), and once in a great while a C. temensis would come through....usually alone or maybe two in a box.
Pike cichlids are old to me, and now new to me again. They are a lot of fun and have interesting behavior. Since keeping Cichla for so long I was not able to keep other fishes that I desired. Pike cichlids fit in smaller tanks and thus I can keep even more pike cichlids!!! It's a win-win situation for me!!!
I hope people keep their Cichla for a long time rather than trade them out for babies when the going gets rough. Here is what happens when you keep Cichla orinocensis for a few years
I do with more of the OG's would keep and or show what they have kept more to let newcomers what they have in store for them if they keep them long term and thanks for posting some of you old collection ..You know you can pic up some Adult Xingu For a chunk tho for sure....And actually for me and i am sure for you or you would have already picked up a few alot of the fun pleasure is in raising from fry
HULON;4916484; said:My Meta Orino's are now a year and a half old and i love these guys have a couple different variety's of orino aAnd ya your right i am definatly enjoying them and ya you know all to well the cost and time it takes But the payback of keeping them that i am just starting to see is just amazing
At a year and a half you're on your way to spectacular!! Now after another year and a half you expect you Rio Meta orinos to be real stunners. Many people don't know that the Colombian orinos are really a super blue color as adults. Rapps' Rio Cusiana orinos are going to be unreal as adults, too. That locality point is a tributary of the Rio Meta. They will all be super blues!!
Speaking of blue........here are some big azuls. They were among the first here in the US. Photos were taken in August 2006, and I had them for half a year prior to that.
Cheers!
EDIT ---- I need to apologize for these photos being re-posts. I hate doing that, but I am sure sooner or later one of you Cichla fanatics will call me out on it. All or most of these photos have been posted here and on WW at some point. They are all pretty old pix now, at least 4 years old in many cases. So, sorry again for the re-posts.
Keep em coming cichlid geek. I too wish some of the OG's would post more and share some pics....old or new. And Id have to agree about raising em from fry....so much more rewarding. And watching the pattern changes as they get older is just insane!
^^^^ No need to aploigize for posting old pics I am sure many are seeing these beauty's for the first time. We don't see enough large Cichla around here at all most time's it's alway's look at what I just got and then we never hear form them again.
^^^^^^^^^ I'm felling the same way ^^^^^^^^ It's all about These beautiful Cichla and other SA Cichlids judt so facinating watching the behaviors and dramatic changes ......Not about EGO"S for me it's the fish and meeting people along the way maybe a couple of good friends And thanks again Cichlid geek please keep them coming Everybody !!!!!!!!
Everybody !!!!!!!!Cichlidgeek;4916436; said:Not too much, I don't mind, and thanks for the nice words.
For me it became too much after so long. I started keeping Cichla in 1995 and stopped last year (2010) ----- 15 years of keeping almost only one type of fish is a lot of dedication. I would get back into it if I could get Cichla sp. Xingu again. I had them a while back, the thread is here somewhere. I also like those Brokopondo C. ocellaris. To me they are the nicest ocellaris available, and they are the real C. ocellaris. Not the Florida hybrids, which also look nice usually, but are not authentic.
Those C. pinima were imported as C. temensis before we knew any better. They were tiny when I got them, maybe 3 inches or so at best. There were only 6 in the box, and they were super expensive at the time. I had a lot of fun with Cichla, and raised many to be more than a few years old. I wish more people actually kept the Cichla they buy to see them into adulthood, they would get a whole new perspective on what a special fish they really are. The next time I keep them I will again do it for the long haul, rather than just the flavor of the month, which is what I started do when more people wanted the fish. In the late 90's you could only get C. monoculus, C. ocellaris (Guyana), and once in a great while a C. temensis would come through....usually alone or maybe two in a box.
Pike cichlids are old to me, and now new to me again. They are a lot of fun and have interesting behavior. Since keeping Cichla for so long I was not able to keep other fishes that I desired. Pike cichlids fit in smaller tanks and thus I can keep even more pike cichlids!!! It's a win-win situation for me!!!
I hope people keep their Cichla for a long time rather than trade them out for babies when the going gets rough. Here is what happens when you keep Cichla orinocensis for a few years
I remember that!! Didnt the male kill the female or something like that?
So Interesting how sorino's can be the same yet so different the first pic is an Orino from RW Possably who knows for sure but said to be from Brasil look at the body shape and especially the tail fin shape verses the rest of my larger O's witch are metas from jeff just a tom of minor diff's Also a pic or so of my kels from jeff and My Brute of an Occell she is beefy i'd say well over two pounds LOL!!!!
What do you think...
That can't be it!!!!!!gangster;4918994; said:
Ado i saw you lookin
bust out !!!!Omogena -Mattcb
Oh ya i took the rock off the big manz stump the boys like it better they cruze under .....
