GT (Gold Saum) Hump?

[jmac510]

^ agree when introduced a new fish my GT got real agressive and thats when i first started noticing the hump

 

[Headrush]

Nice tank i want that background.

Thank you. Background I got from Drs Foster & Smith. Go to their site...have only ordered the background and some plants but they're a top notch operation from my experience with them. They even held the plants for a couple of weeks so they didn't get frozen on the trip here (NY is mighty snowy in the winter and early spring)

 

[Headrush]

I have an 8" GT also and he's not showing any signs of a hump either. He's in there with 2 firemouths and runs the tank. I kinda prefer him the way he is though without the hump.

By the way, nice tank. Love the driftwood. Is that one piece?​

Thanks.

The driftwood is actually 5-6 pieces stacked up. It took about a year to completely leach out all the tannins in them too. I think I may add two more big pieces to fill out the big open space. They will still have plenty of swimming room too. Nothing fancy but each piece ran about $25 at Country Max. I have one small piece of wood in there with anubias barteri thats growing wild, and another which I wedged an anubias nana into, both are doing great

As for the GT I guess I'll try going back to feeding higher protein and a few earthworms here and there. He DIGS those suckers!!

 

[HPIZZLE]

i love the shape of your GT. i would keep him like that if i were you and im not so whatever you want your fish to look like, go for it.
mine had a hump before it hit the 3 inch mark

 

[Headrush]

Deuce is battling the JD every day right now. Pushing and ip locking nothing too serious but he's actively displaying his dominance. Isn't this exactly what he needs to develop a Nuchal hump?

What food would you recommend? what do you guys feed FH's and Midas? Pretty much the same stuf I do I'd think

 

[Irbanjaxed]

headrush how do you get your pics to come out so nicely

 

[pcfriedrich]

not all saums get nuchal humps. be lucky if yours does, although i think nuchals should be left for amphilophus, hericthys, and flowerhorns. i think nuchals are gross on aequidens.

LOL that's kind of funny. they're natural, but gross.

 

[Headrush]

headrush how do you get your pics to come out so nicely

Nothing fancy
Nikon Coolpix 4300 (4.0 megapixel) on auto, on top of the ol' $3 garage sale tripod in the living room


thanks

I need to figure out how to take good shots with the flash off tho. Its like the shutter speed slow way down, and moving objects (fish) get blurry

 

[fobrinkle]

your fish prob won't develop a nuchal hump. If it hasn't happened by 8" then it's prob not gonna happen. It's a nice fish without one though.

 

[Camphilophus]

your fish prob won't develop a nuchal hump. If it hasn't happened by 8" then it's prob not gonna happen. It's a nice fish without one though.

what he said, most of my fish that get over 8" have nuchal humps by at least 4".