Fish Rescue Failure

[Ulu]

Little Maynard the Golden Mbuna passed away this week, due to clan aggression in the big cichlid system. He was one of my first rescue fish ever, and has been one of my favorites. But he did not get along with Leeloo, and her brood of little murderers.

He was quite young in this photo.


RIP little Maynard.

 

[BichirKing]

WOW sorry to hear that! my experience with Auratus is they are usually the killers. Rip Maynard

 

[kno4te]

Sorry for the loss.

 

[The Silvs]

Sorry for your loss mate

 

[kingthedog]

 

[Jacob92677]

Rip Maynard

 

[fishhead0103666]

Well, you could look at it as a failure or, hear me out, you could look at it as a success.
Would this fish have died later if he was left where he was? Would he have had a better quality of life where he was? Would he have been cared for better back there?

If you answered no to those questions then we’ll man, I wouldn’t consider that a failure.

 

[BIG-G]

I remember an auratus we had when I was a kid. Probably would have been 1984 or so.
Maybe even the first cichlid I ever kept.
Didn’t know a thing about this fish then.
Mean lil booger out lasted everything else in the tank.
It’s sad, but part of the hobby.
Sorry for your loss.
Btw Maynard looks like a female. Not that it matters.

 

[Ulu]

WOW sorry to hear that! my experience with Auratus is they are usually the killers. Rip Maynard

Maynard did quite well against the much larger red zebras, and they usually left him be. Eventually Leeloo and her fry overcame him by numbers. Leeloo in 2017. She now has 7 progeny (now over 4") and is over 6" herself.

. . . Maynard looks like a female. . .

I did figure this out eventually as Maynard changed colors. All the gold vanished to just the tips of fins and Maynard became very dark with white stripes. I thought Leeloo was male as well. I rescued 13 fish from an overcrowded 30g tank, and was told all the cichlids were male.

Eeeeh...I couldn't tell and didn't care. I grabbed those 13 free fish and fled like a bandit.

Surviving 2 years later are one upsidedown cat, one BN pleco, two convicts, one red jewel, & Leeloo, plus Mojo (zebra) and Sunflower (yellow lab). I have lost four: Voodoo (bumblebee), Maynard, and two upside down cats. This has always been from agression and not disease.

Everyone graduated to a 3 tank system of 200+ gallons and I've added Buttercup and Cromwell and Photon, plus Sunshine who did not survive.

Mojo



Cromwell



Voodoo (RIP)


Sunflower


Photon


Buttercup


Buttercup and Leeloo have delivered us 7 healthy fish last year, who were not consumed by their community.

I also added a albino pleco and a hi-fin pleco, plus my two 12" plecos are in this system as well, and there is one serpae tetra remaining from my old colony.

 

[BichirKing]

Cromwell lol like Oliver?