Festae 9 month update. PIC HEAVY.

[justarn]

hey all my male festae is looking good today (even though the female has lost her colour after looking great!) so i thought i'd do an update so here goes, both fish are cichlid of american from dan sent all the way over here to the uk. i started with three lost one of the males a few moths in to a wound from the african pike i used to have so here goes... 2.5 inch fish too?

3rd of march 2013;

12th march

16th march
female

male

24th march

1st may

male still looking drab

15th july

male getting better

21st aug


then the pics go a bit slim until now...
male is now around 8 inches and the female 7 inch although she has gone very dark so in an attempt to bring her back ive slimmed the tank right back... ivge spoke to others with nice female who also had theirs go through a dark phase.

 

[justarn]

ONE MORE!-)

is 2.5 to over 8 inch ok for 9 months growth?

 

[JDCHSFB69]

How did you get it to grow so fast?

 

[justarn]

is that really fast then?? not done anything special, 50% pw waterchanges, feed once a day hikari gold, in a 297g tank may affect growth... to be fair they were really lucky to not get eaten considering what has been in there in that time!

 

[doomiedee]

Nice festae dude. How you get it to grow that fast


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[justarn]

i dont think that is that fast tbh but as wrote above mate lol /\/\/\/\

 

[doomiedee]

That's fast for a festae. They usually range about a .5" a month


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[Empyreal]

Anyone know if there are different subspecies of festae? Reason why I ask is I notice a lot on here with heavy black barrying but others I noticed, including mine. Are more solid color with a lot less barring. Mine is a most solid green gold color

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[justarn]

so ive managed .75 inch per month!-) they've been in the 300 since 2.5 inch though around much larger fish so its been grow or get eaten lol! i've noticed they've been growing longer rather than taller for a while so hopefully they'll start filling out again soon... the profile seems to change depending on how they are growing if you check the pics.

 

[justarn]

Anyone know if there are different subspecies of festae? Reason why I ask is I notice a lot on here with heavy black barrying but others I noticed, including mine. Are more solid color with a lot less barring. Mine is a most solid green gold color

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mine go from heavy barring to none depending on their mood, there are different colllection points and lots of threads here about the strains if you do a search, mine are supposedly F0 (so wild caught) rio tumbes (which is a river in peru) from dan at COA