How are those guys doing?
Edit: I just saw you sold them quickly again
Already boring?
Can you give a recap? What was with the gourami? They seemed to have grown considerably in that short time and where looking stunning. What and how much did you feed? Filtration and water changes?
Could you sex them in the end or even observe any breeding behaviour?
Actually, I still have them! I really wanted to grab a creamsicle and white midevil cichlid I saw at my LFS, so since I wasn't getting any serious offers on the group, I decided I'd just try them together. Note - I absolutely wouldn't have tried this if I hadn't already had success with them cohabitating peacefully with the pleco group as well as the silver dollars.
I'm happy to report that they've all been 100% fine with literally zero incidents anywhere so far. This is from the day I picked up the midevil - he's grown considerably since then, but still no problems as of now. Fingers crossed.
To answer your questions - 1st, not boring at all. I would say if anything, they're the opposite, possibly to their detriment depending on the owner, if that makes sense. In my case, they just move so much and so quick that you don't really get to see individuals and track their progress. I will say that as a group, they're very impressive to sit back and watch for a while. They're constantly on the move, like literally always, and they're truly pretty in a group once they get a little size and color to them.
The gourami was from my daughter's betta tank. The betta passed away from old age and she didn't want to keep just the gourami in the tank, so I figured I'd give him a go down there. No real other story than that - it was either put him in there, put him in the other tank with a manueli piranha (lol not happening), or drive close to 30 mins to an LFS to trade him in for Gamestop type money.
I feed the tank once or twice a day, usually twice in smaller portions. They get a super variable mix of food, ranging from Ken's spirulina pellets, cichlid growth pellets, astaxanthin pellets, shrimp sticks, NLS and Northfin pellets, Fluval bug bite wafers (for the plecos but they grab some, too), actual raw shrimp soaked in Boyd's VitaChem, tilapia chunks, and so on. I've accumulated quite a bit of different types of food over time and I feel like it helps to mix it up. Who knows, might be the reason why they don't attack the other tankmates.
Filtration on the 125 gallon tank is through a Fluval FX6, Eheim 2217 canister, and a huge sponge filter attached to an air pump. I do water changes weekly, usually 80-90% each time, making sure the new water comes in at the same - or slightly cooler - temp as the outgoing water to avoid any shock. Prime is added to the water as well.
