I've finally been able to watch closely these two beauties of mine lately. They arrived home (bought at U$ 1.50 each, extremely cheap for they're endemic here in Argentina) on July 20, and took nearly a month to show a bit of themselves -always recluded in their hideouts. The fifteen feeder fish I tossed in lived for very long with them without diminishing in number. Those first two weeks I gave them some bloodworms too. They reluctantly ate a bit of these, and there was some little poop, extremely thin here and there.
When they finished their quarantine I moved them on to a 120 liter tank with 2 hideouts. They are now 5/6 inches long and eat everything, from feeder fish to bloodworms, beefheart and ghost shrimp. No pellets, however. They share their tank with two SA cichlids, two Australoheros facetum, a common species in their habitat. Although they don't like to share a hideout, the sight of each other doesn't drive them crazy for the moment, and they just nibble at each other if they venture into the other's place.
Crenicichla scottii's suborbital lines are made of transversal dashes slightly diverted to the ventral area. One of mine shows three, the other two, from what they earned their names, Two and Three (Dos and Tres in Spanish). Dos is much more tame than Tres and has already even taken food from my hand. They look very healthy and though they don't display many colours like Xingu, etc, they look good to me. They don't have a humeral notch but a bright yellow ocellus is present on their caudal fin. They also have spots distributed all along their bodies like the punctata. In sunlight they shine with iridiscent greens and blues on their backs and operculus.
Unfortunately my camera is out of order and I couldn't take pictures so far. They'll be posted soon!
Marcos
When they finished their quarantine I moved them on to a 120 liter tank with 2 hideouts. They are now 5/6 inches long and eat everything, from feeder fish to bloodworms, beefheart and ghost shrimp. No pellets, however. They share their tank with two SA cichlids, two Australoheros facetum, a common species in their habitat. Although they don't like to share a hideout, the sight of each other doesn't drive them crazy for the moment, and they just nibble at each other if they venture into the other's place.
Crenicichla scottii's suborbital lines are made of transversal dashes slightly diverted to the ventral area. One of mine shows three, the other two, from what they earned their names, Two and Three (Dos and Tres in Spanish). Dos is much more tame than Tres and has already even taken food from my hand. They look very healthy and though they don't display many colours like Xingu, etc, they look good to me. They don't have a humeral notch but a bright yellow ocellus is present on their caudal fin. They also have spots distributed all along their bodies like the punctata. In sunlight they shine with iridiscent greens and blues on their backs and operculus.
Unfortunately my camera is out of order and I couldn't take pictures so far. They'll be posted soon!
Marcos
Felipe
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