how many 15" festae out there?? and its gonna take years and years to get that big. and with that logic you could be ok with a 29 gallon till theyre 6" which could be a year with how slow festae grow.
Festae in 75g?
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how many 15" festae out there?? and its gonna take years and years to get that big. and with that logic you could be ok with a 29 gallon till theyre 6" which could be a year with how slow festae grow.
This is a fine rule, but then what is your 12" Maculicauda doing in your 125?
Personally, I think a 12" fish is fine in an 18" deep tank, just pointing out what seems to be a level of hypocrisy behind your post.
Thats what im saying, i know alot of fish are supposed to be a certain size full grown but then i here many if not most stories of the fish falling a few if not multiple inches short of that size. I think i may give it a go especially since it seems that they grow VERY slow. Anyone know of anyone giving away or selling festae? lol
He's waiting for his move to my 225 gallon 72x30x24" in the next week or two, smart guy.
Exactly, how many festae are there out there that reach their full potential? And that "logic" was for bigger fish and as I said a rough guide. And I said for an adult pair. And there are people out there far more extreme than I am, ask cichlid expert William Heijns about tank size and he'll probably say a convict shouldn't be in anything less than a 125!
And furthermore it's from personal EXPERIENCE keeping a 12" fish in a 125 that I realized it's simply not big enough!
My pair of Festae, 13" and 10.5-11", are in a 156 gallon tank. It's a little small for them I have to admit but it's all I have to work with. With only the two of them plus a few SD's, they seem to be content in it for now. A 75 gallon would only make a growout tank, you will have to upgrade.
As previously stated, a 75 gallon will only serve as a grow out tank. It will not work long term, and even the short term the success or failure will be largely dependent on the individual aggression levels of both fish. It's not just about the "size" of the fish. Do a search on this site for festae & you will find numerous stories about males killing females in tanks ranging from 125-240+. In some cases these "pairs" had been together for 1-3 yrs, before all hell broke loose. If you are absolutely in love with these fish my advice would be start big, or wait until you have the funds or space to do so.
Right, so you used the 125 essentially as a growout, as most of us have been telling the OP to do.
