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Thank you..they are in a 220gal by themself.. how are your pacu? How many do u have...pacu mom;718987; said:
Liz, you give me a lot of hope! In August of 2005, my husband stumbled across the mother of all yard sale finds...a 55 gallon tank chock FULL of big fish...two at least 15" pacu, four large oscars and two 12"+ pleco. Hubby placed the fish into our biggest pots to bring them home. One pacu jumped out of his pot which was sitting on the tailgate of hubby's '63 chevy pickup. After groveling around in the gravel, he was picked up, dusted off and put back in his pot. Once home, the 55 gallon tank, gravel and HOB filters were scoured thoroughly. The tank was filled with our chlorinated water and the fish were put in their now "clean" home. That evening, we got online to figure out which were the pacu and which were the oscars. In our total newbie ignorance, we got another 55 gallon tank from WalMart, filled it up with dechlorinated water and moved the two pacu in. In the following five days, we watched them almost die from the ammonia buildup and horrendous bacterial bloom that occurred. To save their lives, we had to put them back in the original overcrowded 55 g tank. In the last year and a half, we've come a long way from the ignorant newbies we started out as.
Next week, will mark the one year anniversary for our pacu (now about 20"), two oscars and the plecos being in their 300 gallon tank. We lost one oscar to HITH (not surprising as the nitrates were through the roof most of their lives) Freddy, the runt oscar lives by himself in the old 55 gallon tank. We have very innovative plumbing on the big tank which makes tank maintenance very easy. The water parameters have been excellent for the last year (except after a long power outage).
As I said, you give us hope. There is so much gloom and doom predictions on the potential size of pacu, we don't know what the future holds for us. We figured that we have about three years before we'd know if we have to go bigger. We really love our big fellows.
Here's a poor pic taken with a very slow digital camera:
Next week, will mark the one year anniversary for our pacu (now about 20"), two oscars and the plecos being in their 300 gallon tank. We lost one oscar to HITH (not surprising as the nitrates were through the roof most of their lives) Freddy, the runt oscar lives by himself in the old 55 gallon tank. We have very innovative plumbing on the big tank which makes tank maintenance very easy. The water parameters have been excellent for the last year (except after a long power outage).
As I said, you give us hope. There is so much gloom and doom predictions on the potential size of pacu, we don't know what the future holds for us. We figured that we have about three years before we'd know if we have to go bigger. We really love our big fellows.
Here's a poor pic taken with a very slow digital camera:
holy pacu!...I could only imagine what 2 of them would be like...do yours do their own decorating too? lolRed Devil;717313; said:
Very nice indeed Liz, love the tank too...
Buba did the same thing comming home from his rescue...right into the back seat floorboard...I gave him a quick rinse and into the 150 he went....What he hell else can you do for a 20" monster that is flipping out?pacu mom said:
what a wonderful story ..your Pacu will be absolutely fine.. don't forget to feed them all those foods {i only found out about on MFK} they look wonderful and we will stay in touch.. okay.. I am proud of you guys.. you did very well..pacu mom;719107; said:Liz, you give me a lot of hope! In August of 2005, my husband stumbled across the mother of all yard sale finds...a 55 gallon tank chock FULL of big fish...two at least 15" pacu, four large oscars and two 12"+ pleco. Hubby placed the fish into our biggest pots to bring them home. One pacu jumped out of his pot which was sitting on the tailgate of hubby's '63 chevy pickup. After groveling around in the gravel, he was picked up, dusted off and put back in his pot. Once home, the 55 gallon tank, gravel and HOB filters were scoured thoroughly. The tank was filled with our chlorinated water and the fish were put in their now "clean" home. That evening, we got online to figure out which were the pacu and which were the oscars. In our total newbie ignorance, we got another 55 gallon tank from WalMart, filled it up with dechlorinated water and moved the two pacu in. In the following five days, we watched them almost die from the ammonia buildup and horrendous bacterial bloom that occurred. To save their lives, we had to put them back in the original overcrowded 55 g tank. In the last year and a half, we've come a long way from the ignorant newbies we started out as.
Next week, will mark the one year anniversary for our pacu (now about 20"), two oscars and the plecos being in their 300 gallon tank. We lost one oscar to HITH (not surprising as the nitrates were through the roof most of their lives) Freddy, the runt oscar lives by himself in the old 55 gallon tank. We have very innovative plumbing on the big tank which makes tank maintenance very easy. The water parameters have been excellent for the last year (except after a long power outage).
As I said, you give us hope. There is so much gloom and doom predictions on the potential size of pacu, we don't know what the future holds for us. We figured that we have about three years before we'd know if we have to go bigger. We really love our big fellows.
Here's a poor pic taken with a very slow digital camera:
zennzzo;719359; said:holy pacu!...I could only imagine what 2 of them would be like...do yours do their own decorating too? lol
Very nice indeed Liz, love the tank too...
Buba did the same thing comming home from his rescue...right into the back seat floorboard...I gave him a quick rinse and into the 150 he went....What he hell else can you do for a 20" monster that is flipping out?
Actually they uproot a couple of the fake plants we have in the tank but other then that for big guys they are pretty gentle.. it is when they are putting on their show that they get going..they swim around like their little... haha.. they should only know... heres another couple of pictures
.. i do love these guys.. 
Mine would move his mouth like he was part of the conversation about him, when I'd show him off...I swear he was saying something...
zennzzo;719513; said:
Mine would move his mouth like he was part of the conversation about him, when I'd show him off...I swear he was saying something...
AHHHH so sweet Mine do that too..you would think they were saying look at those two out there,,funny looking hehe...
