I have a breading pair of WC jags, never dovii, they love to dig and pit and move stuff around to get ready to spawn, they have the rock of love they clean up every spawn, not sure it makes a dif to fish? but makes sense to me to give them a chore in life, to manipulate there environment rather than just 4 walls, and it is interesting to watch them go threw the process.
Dovii and Jag Pics
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Great job with that blue Beast!!! Wow!
What size tank is he in?
Pops, when the fish get super large space is the fishes most valuable and best thing you can give it.
What size tank is he in?
Pops, when the fish get super large space is the fishes most valuable and best thing you can give it.
+1 it also gives my male something to think about other than beast his girl into laying eggs , but they do wreck the scape daily lol
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Thanks everyone. As far as decor in the tanks, I like to give them as much room as possible. The jags usually have a rock they spawn on and clean. I am trying to give the female a break, I think years of spawning and sparring have been rough on her. I really need to split up this pair and will do so now I am done with moving and have more tanks setup. I have a couple issues with stuff in the tanks, the jags will just tear up plants and move or bury just about everything in the tank when moving all the rocks to one side.
The Dovii just tears up all plants. Larger rocks either get buried as well or are just good objects to injure the Dovii. They get to see me throughout the day and see each other in the tanks, they are in a active room when I'm not in the middle of a move. When I had the Dovii and Umbee next to each other they would always swim up to the corner of each tank an stare each other down.
I don't know how much better it would be for them to have a bunch of crap in there that they just move to a corner, tear up and bury in a single day. If some of you think that is better for your fish do what works for you.
I will say that I may add some things to the 180 gallon once the Jags or just the male are in there. Maybe put in some of the large drift wood and rocks I have laying around. I find that stuff does not serve much of a purpose with large single male tanks. If there is more than enough room I would add some larger pieces of drift wood at least. Plants don't last long and I have seen pieces of the plastic plants get stuck in the gills from them tearing them up.
I don't think 180 gallon tanks give a whole lot of room when dealing with 12" + fish. The 360 gallon will get some drift wood but that is about it, might try some plants that drop into the tank. I do think when dealing with young, small pairs or single fish all the decor is good. It is a different story when dealing with large mature fish IMO.
The Dovii just tears up all plants. Larger rocks either get buried as well or are just good objects to injure the Dovii. They get to see me throughout the day and see each other in the tanks, they are in a active room when I'm not in the middle of a move. When I had the Dovii and Umbee next to each other they would always swim up to the corner of each tank an stare each other down.
I don't know how much better it would be for them to have a bunch of crap in there that they just move to a corner, tear up and bury in a single day. If some of you think that is better for your fish do what works for you.
I will say that I may add some things to the 180 gallon once the Jags or just the male are in there. Maybe put in some of the large drift wood and rocks I have laying around. I find that stuff does not serve much of a purpose with large single male tanks. If there is more than enough room I would add some larger pieces of drift wood at least. Plants don't last long and I have seen pieces of the plastic plants get stuck in the gills from them tearing them up.
I don't think 180 gallon tanks give a whole lot of room when dealing with 12" + fish. The 360 gallon will get some drift wood but that is about it, might try some plants that drop into the tank. I do think when dealing with young, small pairs or single fish all the decor is good. It is a different story when dealing with large mature fish IMO.
That is where aquarium silicon taking it play in that partGive them Decor? He gives them love
Seriously if you've ever had a big dovii you know why theres not much going on. Decor with a jag that size is pretty pointless as well. Mine just moves everything to one corner out of his way then gets pissed when I put it back where I want it.
When I knew I'm done with the décor in my tank I'll silicon them into its place. It can dig or move around the sand/gravel all day long if it wanted to do that, also all the plants I attached them on driftwoods, it's nice to have such a beauty beast but it's even better with some nice décor in it.
That is where aquarium silicon taking it play in that part
If you have ever had a Dovii this big you would know that all the silicon will do is keep the base to the glass, you will have a plant stripped of all the leaves.
On top of that you will just those silly looking base pieces with no gravel around and some stripped twigs in your tank with a bunch of leaves floating at the surface of the water. Not a good look in my opinion. There are ways to get some decorations in there though. Like I said when he is in the big tank I will probably put back in some driftwood and have some live plants that drop into the tank, a good 3D background would look nice too when I have the depth.
