I been watching this guy at an LFS for about a monthe he was in a tank with a 6 or seven inch dempsey and a feww good sized convicts i thought he would be good with a six inch bass and two 3 inch Uaru but when added the bass immediatly was beating on him so i put him in a breeder box for the night have to go buy a divider tommorow any way he is 2 2.5was really suprised he coul not hold his own ..I have just known dats as dats either silver or gold this is a gold i believe what are all these st nt and diferent abreviasions? thanks in advance.. I felt he was a handsome fellow opinions?
First Dat tips please !!!!
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that is a nice oddball IT, or indo tiger, or indo dat. There is alot of info in the stickies HULON if you want to look up there
It's an IT (most commonly available, IMO). Pretty nice one you got there. Ade is right. Dats grow very slow compared to Pbass. Pbass I know can get over 12" within a year (depending on species) while these guys can take a couple of years or more to attain that size. At this size, it would be fine with smaller and/or semi-aggressive Cichlids that don't grow too large.
LoL welcome to the other darkside Hulon. Yeah you have to becareful. You can mix Peacock bass and dats together but you need the right size dats with certain size bass. Dats can hold there own against bass when they get big just not when they are small. Like your dat being 2.5inches and your bass being 6inches is not a good match imo. I would mix a 4incher with it and get the bass use to having a dat as a tankmate or add a group of dats so they dont know which one to mess with. I keep groups of 3 to 6 with my bass and they get along but sometimes dats dont like bass and will mess with them. Mine do it here and there. Before you know it your going to want more...lol
Ya...dats are quite cool. They also have a good personality. As funwow said they make good tankmates but as they get larger they seem to enjoy picking on the bass. I have a 9in NGT that runs my tank. He whoops on my 14" cichla. And now that my indos are getting bigger they are also starting to get ballsy and pick on the bass. Treat your small dat like a small cichla and you'll do good.
Here's the abbreviations
AT-silver datnoid
IT-Indo dat
NTT-thinbar dat
NGT-New guinea Tiger dat
ST-Siamese/widebar dat
CT-Cambodian Tiger-another widebar...supposedly
Here's the abbreviations
AT-silver datnoid
IT-Indo dat
NTT-thinbar dat
NGT-New guinea Tiger dat
ST-Siamese/widebar dat
CT-Cambodian Tiger-another widebar...supposedly
Ade;4609817; said:
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FunWow!;4610026; said:
Thanks everybody for the info ..I just found it strange that this particular bass my smallest in a grow out even lets the Uaru push him around and he immediatly went after the dat was on a mission so to speak and i had to seperate before damage happened....gangster;4610120; said:
Ans ya i love his personality when i put the net into seperat he swam right in
like he new he was in trouble and i was helpin
