Festae or Ornatum?

[HerCrenVie]

Which of these species would be your pick for a breeding project? This is purely an opinion poll, nothing else. I have the opportunity to get either one (not both, unfortunately) of these beautiful species next week and I'm having trouble trying to decide, so I thought I'd see what people prefer. Price wise they are about the same over here so that is not a major consideration. I'm more concerned about personality, ease of care, etc; and generally just your opinions. Vote away

 

[TheOscarGuy]

voted

 

[HerCrenVie]

voted

Cheers

I suspect festae will win the poll by quite a big margin. Most threads on ornatum on MFK that I have read make repeated mention of how this species is exceedingly slow growing, incredibly aggressive and yet very shy and not at all personable. All terrible traits for a large cichlid to have.

 

[MTBjake]

If it were me I would go for the Ornatum because they seem to be more rare than festae. But either way you'll have incredible fish! Good luck.


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[freebyrd]

ive never herd of anyone able to spawn the ornatum in anything other than a pond setting so i voted festae. both are really great fish

 

[HerCrenVie]

Thanks for the votes everyone! Keep them coming. I think part of the attraction for me towards ornatum is the fact that they have not been spawned in aquaria, so there's a nice challenge there. I find festae prettier, but breeding them would be rather meh.

 

[woofy]

I cant vote in the phone so ill tell you. For easier breeding i would say festae. But ornatums are not easily available in the hobby and not a lot of people are breeding and distributing them so if you can manage to do it (theyre arent the easiest to breed i hear) then i vote ornatums. Thats what i would do.


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[duanes]

I believe Mel has a spawning pair of ornatum in a 240 gal. They appear to be about 14" and look fabulous, saw a youtube video somewhere.
I've had a small group of juvies for a little over a month, they were very aggressive with each other at first, until I added a group of larger Guianacara as dither/targets in order for the ornatum to take the focus off each other.
I believe it will be a few years before they are ready to breed.

 

[jessetayisletas]

Ornatum more rare


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[fishman09]

Festae can and have been bred in aquaria so they are the obvious choice. Ornatum have been in the hobby around 5 years and nobody has had a successful pair to spawn. Trying to breed ornatum is borderline a waste of time espescially for the price they demand.


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