Hoplicas Curupira (Black Wolf)

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Thank you, and yea they're greedy fish I didn't have to starve anyone either, they ate when I fed, just the black wolf wasn't eating when he was settling in and don't unready image what they can fit, they don't always make it fit whole..
 
When its settled in then you might see the red wolf tail sticking out of his mouth in the morning!...At least my 11 inches Aimara did that to 1 of mine 6 inches mala and 4x 5 inches clown loach and its only in my tank less than a week.
 
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Thank you, and yea they're greedy fish I didn't have to starve anyone either, they ate when I fed, just the black wolf wasn't eating when he was settling in and don't unready image what they can fit, they don't always make it fit whole..
I meant underestimate where it put unready image
 
When its settled in then you might see the red wolf tail sticking out of his mouth in the morning!...At least my 11 inches Aimara did that to 1 of mine 6 inches mala and 4x 5 inches clown loach and its only in my tank less than a week.
My black is settled, he's always full of krill shrimp and massivore. He's showed no interest in the red. And the mala he's with is 6 and a half inches measured this morning when he was upfront and I finally had a ruler nearby. I experienced similar things when I first got my black. He was larger than I initially wanted, and he ate one marbled goby that was about 4.5 inches and he was only 8 inches, I then out feeders in since he wasn't taking anything I out for the other fish. And he didn't eat them, he then tried a 5 inch bullhead, luckily I caught him in the act before I went to sleep and removed the bullhead. This was the first 2 days.
 
My wolf not really settle in yet because its still stay hidden in its DW cave during daytime even I had low light/black water planted setup, and only in actions after night time/moon light up, it will patrol the tank and chasing thing around at that point. My guess is Wes kept him in dark setup environment for sometimes so it doesn't get use with my tank setup yet (I can text or call Wes but it's not necessary to bother him for that). :P
 
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Here is my setup until its growth out of my tank 60x24x24 inches (Plants mostly Anubias, Java Ferns and a jungle of pothos)
Who's know there are 1x Lac, 4x Mala, and The King Aimara in there?...They are stay hidden under those driftwood plants LOL
 
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Awesome setup, I couldn't say how he kept my curupira, I didn't ask for pictures, just about the behavior of this particular specimen, and he had it with tankmates and said it was fine so I trusted him and made the purchase. And what's your YouTube name so I can subscribe, do you have any vids of the fish out or they really hide most of the time? Nice setup
 
Awesome setup, I couldn't say how he kept my curupira, I didn't ask for pictures, just about the behavior of this particular specimen, and he had it with tankmates and said it was fine so I trusted him and made the purchase. And what's your YouTube name so I can subscribe, do you have any vids of the fish out or they really hide most of the time? Nice setup
Thanks, I'm only use youtube as a place holder to post videos here, I don't intentionally video everything and upload on youtube :P
As for my wolfs they now stay hidden for the most part, they started coming out in daytime more often then when back to its cave. I think it will come out and stay in open space after its well settle in my tank, then I'll take a video and update in here (or new thread for it).
 
Here is my setup until its growth out of my tank 60x24x24 inches (Plants mostly Anubias, Java Ferns and a jungle of pothos)
Who's know there are 1x Lac, 4x Mala, and The King Aimara in there?...They are stay hidden under those driftwood plants LOL

Nice set up, didn't know its possible to house different species of wolf fishes together, thought the aimara would kill everything in the tank.
By the way, your tank doesn't have cover?
 
Nice set up, didn't know its possible to house different species of wolf fishes together, thought the aimara would kill everything in the tank.
By the way, your tank doesn't have cover?
*Thanks for kind words. I'm trying to house them together for experiment. It's either a hit or a miss (more likely will be a miss cause the Aimara already ate one Mala).
**I don't use cover on all my tanks, I don't have issue with fish jump of my tank and got dry up on the floor for last couple decades :P (Like I always said many times in some other threads *Fish only jump out of your tank when you don't have a right setup for them*) :P Also, I have plenty of pothos on top of my tank so my fish kinda knew the border limit. :)
*NOTE: This comment DO NOT APPLY to Arowana species (or other species with same habit) cause they would jump out trying to catch something look like yummy food to them*
 
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