About a month ago I bought 3 RD's from Petsmart, all 2" & under, the biggest was all orange, the second biggest was creamsickle and had more midas features (rounded snout, beefier, while the other two had long snouts and an elongated body) and the smallest was still barred.
I took quite a liking to the creamsickle midas since I thought it had way more potential than the other two, but it was only the betta male of the three with the biggest orange one as alpha. After 2 weeks I decided to remove the largest from the 37 gallon and threw him in my 150 with my other cichlids, he did fine. The next day I noticed that the creamsicle had developed a nauchal hump overnight! I was amazed, this fish is only 2"! I can see him turning out to be a real brute!
Then I removed all the plants/fish and wood from his tank and replaced with pots. With nothing to dominate his hump demenished...So two days ago I put the larger devil back in along with a female blood parrot and his head once again is massive for such a little fish. Although he's not the biggest fish, he's the dominate one of the tank now!
Heres some pics from when I fist got the 3 of them and the creamsickle now at almost 3" SL
I took quite a liking to the creamsickle midas since I thought it had way more potential than the other two, but it was only the betta male of the three with the biggest orange one as alpha. After 2 weeks I decided to remove the largest from the 37 gallon and threw him in my 150 with my other cichlids, he did fine. The next day I noticed that the creamsicle had developed a nauchal hump overnight! I was amazed, this fish is only 2"! I can see him turning out to be a real brute!
Then I removed all the plants/fish and wood from his tank and replaced with pots. With nothing to dominate his hump demenished...So two days ago I put the larger devil back in along with a female blood parrot and his head once again is massive for such a little fish. Although he's not the biggest fish, he's the dominate one of the tank now!
Heres some pics from when I fist got the 3 of them and the creamsickle now at almost 3" SL
