Me and a buddy ordered a group of umbees and I ordered 3 Beani from gauge Brady from cichlid connection back in February. They came in around an inch long a piece and are now hitting the 3 inch mark and starting to color up.
They are being housed in a 150 gallon right now just to grow up in but are getting split up to a 130, a 125 and a 215 gallon pretty soon here.
But my main question is has anyone ever heard of an Umbee and Beani pairing up? I mean, there is 9 umbees and 3 Beani in the tank...plenty to pair up with their own species.. But the umbee (which is female...strong olive color with black dot on her side and occasionally her face will go jet black) and the biggest of my male Beani, have shown a strong liking in each other. They dance, flare at each other, even feed each other. Which is one thing I've never seen happen before.
The weird thing is that it happened after I removed a large growth of the umbees tail. It looked like some sort of tumor. Purple and white in color. I didn't think much of it at first, I figured it was from stress due to an aggressive zonatum in the tank.
Well I got rid of the so arum and the growth grew larger, so I decided to take a scalpel and cut it off her tail (knowing the small part I cut off would grow back). But literally right after I threw her back in the tank from her surgery, the Beani started chasing off anything that came around her. And that's where we are now.
The Beani gets WICKED coloration around her. Nice gold honeycomb with green and blue tinge to it and black sort of bars.
I'm not a huge fan of hybrids. I mean they are cool and whatnot... But should I keep them together since it will be a natural pair instead of something forced? Or should I split them up when I split the rest of the fish up?
They are being housed in a 150 gallon right now just to grow up in but are getting split up to a 130, a 125 and a 215 gallon pretty soon here.
But my main question is has anyone ever heard of an Umbee and Beani pairing up? I mean, there is 9 umbees and 3 Beani in the tank...plenty to pair up with their own species.. But the umbee (which is female...strong olive color with black dot on her side and occasionally her face will go jet black) and the biggest of my male Beani, have shown a strong liking in each other. They dance, flare at each other, even feed each other. Which is one thing I've never seen happen before.
The weird thing is that it happened after I removed a large growth of the umbees tail. It looked like some sort of tumor. Purple and white in color. I didn't think much of it at first, I figured it was from stress due to an aggressive zonatum in the tank.
Well I got rid of the so arum and the growth grew larger, so I decided to take a scalpel and cut it off her tail (knowing the small part I cut off would grow back). But literally right after I threw her back in the tank from her surgery, the Beani started chasing off anything that came around her. And that's where we are now.
The Beani gets WICKED coloration around her. Nice gold honeycomb with green and blue tinge to it and black sort of bars.
I'm not a huge fan of hybrids. I mean they are cool and whatnot... But should I keep them together since it will be a natural pair instead of something forced? Or should I split them up when I split the rest of the fish up?
! but a really think the beani will act differently once u start to remove his buddies
