Datnioides color is improved by keeping a solitary specimen?

[ewurm]

I guess we can apply the logic that if you are not the "big man on campus" you might not want to stand out. You might get your rear handed to you.

I wonder if that applies to fish...

Could be, or maybe I just have a bunch of crappy, wussy datnioides. Maybe I'll just buy 20 new tanks, and give them their own special place. Or maybe I'll choose one and feed the rest to my cockbass.

 

[arkmann]

Just sell the ones that you want and sell the others and use the funds to acquire more dats that hopefully stay stable. That's what I have been doing in the 2 years that I have been keeping dats.

But yeah, some dats are complete wusses. My smallest NTT at 4" switches from totally stable to jet black. Its not a wuss either coz it chases my 8" NGT, 8" IT, 8" NTT, and once in a while the 11" ST. It gets its fair share of being chased out of its panties as well.

Could be, or maybe I just have a bunch of crappy, wussy datnioides. Maybe I'll just buy 20 new tanks, and give them their own special place. Or maybe I'll choose one and feed the rest to my cockbass.

 

[MikeGF123]

i have 2 thin bars together about 3" in a 90 gallon i put them in the tank a few days ago and were really stable the next day they went unstable whats the problem???

 

[tuaniee]

its because st. charles has bad water

 

[T1KARMANN]

in the wild they dont stay in shoals

so yes you have a better chance of getting a tiger stable on its own

 

[janzal3]

Dats can be moody, especially the ST. I have only kept more than one Dat in tank once. It was a smaller AT and a large ST. Once the AT started to get bigger (about 10 or 11 inches) the ST constantly chased it. They were both stable until then. The dats that I kept as a single dat in community tank were almost always stable. The ST would darken every now and again. It seemed that it would sulk. These fish have definite personalities. The longer you have them, the more apparent it becomes. IME