Cakilla's Rio Meta Orino Progression thread

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they are pretty small to worry about pellet training yet id say 6 inches is a much safer size to start training them they have grown bit and have started to build up an immune system they wont just starve to death and refuse to eat the good news is they usually take to pellets relatively easy
 
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i got lucky and mine ate frz dried shrimp etc right away..if mine dident i would have fed them convict fry..just dont starve them until they are bigger and they can handle it..i caught on to this trick..i'll do a video/pics if u like on how i do it..either i stuff tilapia or shrimp with cichlid gold or a hikari food stick and eventually they get the taste of the pellet and they just eat pellets..but i still mix it to beef them up..
 
Thanks guys I will hold off on trying to pellet train them until they get to 6 inches .

That would be Really aweosme mike I'd appreciate a video if you could showing how you fix up your food !


Great News my 2 - 5- 6 inch Guyana Occels arrived this morning they arrived in Tip top shape and are AMAZING! I can't say enough good things about johns ( snokiin21 ) fish and shipping ! they was a bit shy for about 5 minutes in the tank ( I slowly acclimated them for about an hour with a slow drip method ) but after that their colors came back ! they are something else !!! since I have gotten into the fish keeping hobby I honestley don't think I have been this excited or happy about keeping any fish like I am with Cichla !!


I forgot to add that the Ocells are wc and was only eating live so today I picket up 6 female / 2 male fancy tail guppies along with a convict pair so I can keep a supply of home raised feeders
 
Cakilla said:
Thanks guys I will hold off on trying to pellet train them until they get to 6 inches .

That would be Really aweosme mike I'd appreciate a video if you could showing how you fix up your food !


Great News my 2 - 5- 6 inch Guyana Occels arrived this morning they arrived in Tip top shape and are AMAZING! I can't say enough good things about johns ( snokiin21 ) fish and shipping ! they was a bit shy for about 5 minutes in the tank ( I slowly acclimated them for about an hour with a slow drip method ) but after that their colors came back ! they are something else !!! since I have gotten into the fish keeping hobby I honestley don't think I have been this excited or happy about keeping any fish like I am with Cichla !!
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no problem bro..i'll shoot a video of of the food here in say about a hour or so..i just fed them so i want to make sure when i do a video atleast one will eat it lol..cant wait to see those guyana ocells..yeah snookn21 is a awesome vendor..he's the only vendor i go to..cant beat his shipping prices..and now u got the cichla madness addiction lol
 
Right on bro!!! Thanks so much for that ! I will keep trying different foods with my lil guys and see if I can trick em into taking them , I made a video lastnight of the orino's and the occels but dang comp is still acting up and not letting me upload anything and the funny thing is I play an online game and it will not let me connect to it at all either comes up with an error :( so this is going into the shop later on today so I won't be around till it gets fixed , but know when you see me I will have vids uploaded for yas !

and Thanks so much mike for that video again it really helped me out
 
Cakilla said:
Right on bro!!! Thanks so much for that ! I will keep trying different foods with my lil guys and see if I can trick em into taking them , I made a video lastnight of the orino's and the occels but dang comp is still acting up and not letting me upload anything and the funny thing is I play an online game and it will not let me connect to it at all either comes up with an error :( so this is going into the shop later on today so I won't be around till it gets fixed , but know when you see me I will have vids uploaded for yas !

and Thanks so much mike for that video again it really helped me out
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no problem bro..anything for fellow cichlaholics..cant wait to see pictures of of your orinos..btw certain fish love diffrent foods its all trial and error just got to find thier prefrence..
 
Lookin good man!!
 
Thanks !!! I watched the first video of them and then watched the new one and it is something else how much they have changed

O and I am sorry for all the bubbles, I don't like the look of the bubbles in the tank but I want as much O2 in the water as possible ... It's all about the fish


I fed them a little heavy today because tommorow is water change day , I call them my little wolf pack I am sure you see why, I put that female dempsey in there to teach them to eat pellets and it only took a day and they started eating broken hikari aro sticks :-) but I still have 6 pounds of frozen black wroms to use lol so mornings they eat broken food sticks , lunch they get tilapia, and for dinner black worms and I rotate what they get at what time weekly.

Now that I have a cheap but way better camera then my cell and have afew Sd cards and 4 USB cords I should not have a problem keeping up with the updates .

Time permiting Friday I am going to make a video of my Guyana Occels and the motoros and my biggest aro :-)
 
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