Hi there, I haven't been around for a while, so I thought I woud post up a recent PIC and say hi.
Greetings and a pic of my WAL
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Thanks!
The photo doesn't really do it's size justice. It's a few inches longer than my arm which puts it over 28".
The photo doesn't really do it's size justice. It's a few inches longer than my arm which puts it over 28".
Nice. How long have you had it? And what do you feed it? Just wondering, because I'm hoping mine will get up to that size or at least close to it.
I actually just posted about feeding in another post, but I'll repeat part of it here.
I got this one at around 4" and fed it mostly blackworm until it was around 9-10"
I then switched it to pellets (Masivore/Algae wafers)
Once it hit 18" I added talapia chunks to it's diet, mostly because talapia is cheap protein.
I think pellet food is very important for these fish. In the wild they reportedly eat a lot of Mollusks, so that means they are also eating the gut contents of their prey, which would be algae and vegetable matter.
When fed a lot of pellets it really looks it's best, it actually gets a rosy color on the lower parts of its head.
I also think the algae wafers do a lot to combat lateral line erosion, other members have noticed this as well.
I got this one at around 4" and fed it mostly blackworm until it was around 9-10"
I then switched it to pellets (Masivore/Algae wafers)
Once it hit 18" I added talapia chunks to it's diet, mostly because talapia is cheap protein.
I think pellet food is very important for these fish. In the wild they reportedly eat a lot of Mollusks, so that means they are also eating the gut contents of their prey, which would be algae and vegetable matter.
When fed a lot of pellets it really looks it's best, it actually gets a rosy color on the lower parts of its head.
I also think the algae wafers do a lot to combat lateral line erosion, other members have noticed this as well.
