Hey guys, I wanted to start a thread to keep a little log of my bass and how they're doing and growing.
Quick background on my history with these guys, I had never heard about them up until a few months ago when a friend introduced me to them. I instantly loved them and have been reading up on them ever since. I purchased m first one from a pet store around here and dropped him in with some chiclids who roughed him up. He was small. So I took him out and put him in a 15g heal tank where I medicated him and did daily water changes. When he put on some size I put him in my 55g with a large jack. Unfortunately I came home a day later to him dead... Lesson learned. Here's my old guy:
So I moved the jack to a new tank and started prepping the 55 for a grow out for 2 juvies. They will be moved once they're larger. I had my LFS order me 2 from segrest after Pet Supermarket said segrest didn't have any. They were ordered on a Monday and came in on that Wednesday so I was stoked!
After about the first week of having them I started to feed them feeders one at a time to help promote top water eating in preparation of weening them off live food. Today they're eating cut fish and I can even drop dead in and they'll snatch them up. I even got them to eat some blood worms I had in the freezer. These guys get a 50% water change every week. My experience with such a schedule has been quite rewarding as my fish seam to flourish at a very fast rate.
Without further ado here is a chronological picture timeline of my pbass, Lip and Masuka.
This gets me going. They'll do this at each other, then what I believe is playing around swimming in circles after each other
This guy never let's me get pictures of him so when I snapped this one I was excited
For anyone who cares lol and wants to tell them apart this guy is "Lip"
An this guy is "Masuka". His top fins have always looked like that. Don't know if it was fin rot or a birth defect.
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Quick background on my history with these guys, I had never heard about them up until a few months ago when a friend introduced me to them. I instantly loved them and have been reading up on them ever since. I purchased m first one from a pet store around here and dropped him in with some chiclids who roughed him up. He was small. So I took him out and put him in a 15g heal tank where I medicated him and did daily water changes. When he put on some size I put him in my 55g with a large jack. Unfortunately I came home a day later to him dead... Lesson learned. Here's my old guy:
So I moved the jack to a new tank and started prepping the 55 for a grow out for 2 juvies. They will be moved once they're larger. I had my LFS order me 2 from segrest after Pet Supermarket said segrest didn't have any. They were ordered on a Monday and came in on that Wednesday so I was stoked!
After about the first week of having them I started to feed them feeders one at a time to help promote top water eating in preparation of weening them off live food. Today they're eating cut fish and I can even drop dead in and they'll snatch them up. I even got them to eat some blood worms I had in the freezer. These guys get a 50% water change every week. My experience with such a schedule has been quite rewarding as my fish seam to flourish at a very fast rate.
Without further ado here is a chronological picture timeline of my pbass, Lip and Masuka.
This gets me going. They'll do this at each other, then what I believe is playing around swimming in circles after each other
This guy never let's me get pictures of him so when I snapped this one I was excited
For anyone who cares lol and wants to tell them apart this guy is "Lip"
An this guy is "Masuka". His top fins have always looked like that. Don't know if it was fin rot or a birth defect.
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