How Is This Cohabitation Possible?

[Ohio Entusiast]

Everything I've seen and read has deemed this impossible. Click on this link and then on the link for ''Sanchezi Group Feeding''
http://www.piranha-cove.com/forum1/index.php?showtopic=5083

I'd love the ability to ask the guy personally and how his experience has gone in the long run. Unfortunately I've been through 17 degrees of Hell trying to register on that forum and in the end, failed miserably.

Actually a few of the videos on that site seem impossible.

 

[JoeDizzleMPLS]

i've seen those types of videos quite a bit, and if i had to guess, i would say that the video is of a very newly set up cohab. usually people brag about serra cohabs after only having them going for a couple weeks or so... but success is measured in the long run, and i haven't much proof of those.

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

Usually I'd feel the same way but this guy has some very impressive fish and even more impressive set-ups if you watch all his videos and read some of his writing.
I can't imagine throwing all those thousands of dollars to the wind. One thing about it, he has more money and more balls than I!

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

If you watch the first video on that list, he states the time they've cohabitated and it's not a matter of weeks as would be expected. The one colony has been together 47 months or something like that.

I find all this amazing.

 

[dudey]

I can't open the videos, but I know macs are fairly easy to cohab. A guy on pfury has even bred them multiple times in a 125 before selling the shoal.

I would never try a serra cohab besides a mac, or geyri.

Not sure what this guy is doing right cant open

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

I can't open the videos, but I know macs are fairly easy to cohab. A guy on pfury has even bred them multiple times in a 125 before selling the shoal.

I would never try a serra cohab besides a mac, or geyri.

Not sure what this guy is doing right cant open

I wonder why?
He has videos of 7 Sanchezi that have been together [If we are to believe his word.] for 22 months. Has some nice Geryi which is known to be successfull. He has a video of maybe 6 Elongs together and a bunch of Macs. There are others but I don't recall the species.

 

[mad ness]

nice collection of fish. if you look closely one of the serras in the "many same species feeding" link has bite marks in it's tail. but if it's true more power to him.

i kept a few sanchezi's, 6 in a tank for 2 months. ended up cycling the weakest to a healing tank, while that one healed, the next weak fish in line would get fins nipped... ended up trading them back to the shop at deep loss. the shop tried and lost fish.

 

[Ohio Entusiast]

nice collection of fish. if you look closely one of the serras in the "many same species feeding" link has bite marks in it's tail. but if it's true more power to him.

i kept a few sanchezi's, 6 in a tank for 2 months. ended up cycling the weakest to a healing tank, while that one healed, the next weak fish in line would get fins nipped... ended up trading them back to the shop at deep loss. the shop tried and lost fish.

I just acquired a Sanchezi and have read extensively on them. I have a couple big tanks that are currently empty and have been thinking about putting 5 or so in my 480 gallon tank....Now I'm not so sure.

What size tank were yours housed in? Was yours heavily planted/decorated?

 

[jp80911]

I just acquired a Sanchezi and have read extensively on them. I have a couple big tanks that are currently empty and have been thinking about putting 5 or so in my 480 gallon tank....Now I'm not so sure.

What size tank were yours housed in? Was yours heavily planted/decorated?

if you have 480g with 5 sanchezi then it might work as long as you keep it heavily planted/decorated. never had a tank that big so I can't backup my words.

 

[Diogenes]

if you have 480g with 5 sanchezi then it might work as long as you keep it heavily planted/decorated. never had a tank that big so I can't backup my words.

yeah maybe...


There's an article on OPEFE about cohabing sanchezi with P. natterreri. Little serras like S. sanchezi have a parasitic relationship with pygos. They'll live amongst them, occasionally darting out to nip a fin off the pygos only to retreat unscathed to a hiding place. Supposedly the P's tolerate it, but I'd say your rolling the dice, and keeping a shoal of pygos looking pretty ragged. In a 480 you might be able to keep a few together. Just depends.

if you could find 6 juvie serras of some sort (like maybe from this guy right here http://www.piranha-cove.com/forum1/index.php?showtopic=11147 ) then you might be able to get a pair in a 480 and breed them. Could make your money right back....

480 would be a sick shoal of geryi's though.