Fish all look great man! especially like the robertsoni and rostratus. Hope your pasionis breed soon as well.
How big are those Astyanax? they look huge
How big are those Astyanax? they look huge
Oak is one of the best,it last for years. It does release more tannins than beech though. Beech is also excellent if you can get some.Excellent, then once the weather clears, I’m going searching. I have read oak is one of the best. Is there anything I need to prepare the wood for the tank?
Thanks for the info Darren. Can’t wait to get started. I think I will also buy some rocks like. Unfortunately the rocks in my area are shale and quartz. Neither look nice and quartz often contains “fools gold”, which can be toxic to fish from what I understand.Oak is one of the best,it last for years. It does release more tannins than beech though. Beech is also excellent if you can get some.
For preparing the branches I strip all the bark off,give it a good scrubbing and poor boiling water over it.
The branches will float for some time until completely waterlogged.
Thanks!Fish all look great man! especially like the robertsoni and rostratus. Hope your pasionis breed soon as well.
How big are those Astyanax? they look huge
I was not aware they got quite that big! Biggest I have seen is 4". That's awesome, I can imagine a school of 5-7"ers as dithers for a monster cichlid would look amazing in a big tank. New dream setup hah.Thanks for the info Darren. Can’t wait to get started. I think I will also buy some rocks like. Unfortunately the rocks in my area are shale and quartz. Neither look nice and quartz often contains “fools gold”, which can be toxic to fish from what I understand.
Thanks!
The biggest astyanax is probably 6-7”. That is a female. The smallest is probably 4”.
The biggest problem w/ these is they are scale eaters and mostly go after fins. You can see they go after the deppi most.
Thanks, at this point the cichlids are the dithers lol. They definitely are rough on one another too. I found if you don’t keep them in even numbers one will get killed by the others. A bigger tank would help for sure, and I wouldn’t recommend these guys in anything smaller than a 6’ tank. Also good with large cichlids, but that depends. More peaceful fish will get picked on and cichlids too aggressive might be too much for the tetras. A loisellei I had almost killed the biggest one. I think the loisellei punctured the swim bladder. The tetra was having a hard time swimming, and upside down. I put her in a hospital tank, and in a month the fish was back to normal. No meds. They also are very tolerant of temps and water conditions.I was not aware they got quite that big! Biggest I have seen is 4". That's awesome, I can imagine a school of 5-7"ers as dithers for a monster cichlid would look amazing in a big tank. New dream setup hah.
Ehh, would be close enough for me. Specific location-based biotopes are awesome, but I personally just stick with CA or SA. Panama is CA technically, you are good!The one thing I don’t like is they are not geographically correct. They are found Panama and throughout all of SA.
Yeah that was thinking. Also can tollorate the same ph. I think I bought them in 2012, which were already at 3”. It was a LFS, and I picked them up because it’s not often you find any kind of astyanax spp. The main way to ID these is they have a spot near the gills and the classic tail spot. This is why they are often called “two spot astyanax”.Ehh, would be close enough for me. Specific location-based biotopes are awesome, but I personally just stick with CA or SA. Panama is CA technically, you are good!