escondido and jewels?

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be careful with jewels. i can tell you they are far tougher than they appear even @ shy of 2" when newly introduced to an aquarium with a 4" established midas. the midas investigated the jewel and the jewel wanted to have a fight and stood its ground, it wasnt even in the tank 5 minutes. like cons, more balls than brains. tougher than i expected even when presented with a fish that would kill it in seconds if he chose to.

i would get the jewel smaller if you can or grow out the escondido a bit and you may have a little more success.
on that note, best of luck to you.
 
cichlid2006;2901013; said:
be careful with jewels. i can tell you they are far tougher than they appear even @ shy of 2" when newly introduced to an aquarium with a 4" established midas. the midas investigated the jewel and the jewel wanted to have a fight and stood its ground, it wasnt even in the tank 5 minutes. like cons, more balls than brains. tougher than i expected even when presented with a fish that would kill it in seconds if he chose to.

i would get the jewel smaller if you can or grow out the escondido a bit and you may have a little more success.
on that note, best of luck to you.
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Agree!
 
Ok that sounds good. I have 4 escondido growing out right now and plan to keep the better one of the bunch. When I got them the largest was about 1.5" .. that was 2-3 weeks.a go.. he's easily pushing 2.5" now. The smaller guys are about 1.5" now themselves. The lfs I was at generally doesn't have the jewels in and they just got a whole mess of them. 2$ for 2-4" ones, so I thought I'd inquire about em.

thanks for the info.
 
at the same size they jewel would probably be dominant, at some point those jewels will probably die
 
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