Thats a nice lil jardini u got ur hands on their!! =) I used to owned one just like urs....till he got into some fight over night wit some of my cichlids and my 2 silver arowana.They were all kept in a custom made 450 gallon tank that my uncles friend made for us back in 2005.We still have the tank back in Florida.We still got the 2 silvers which are now 25".Ad the cichlids that I took care of in the 450 gallon was a Managuense which was a 16" male and a 12" Flowerhorn a 29" Clown knifefish a 10" Synspilum and a new jardini that we bought in 2006 which we got at the size of 8" and till now this year he got to about 19".Im now just wondering how their doing since they are at the other end of the US.=( Well good luck on ur jardini! And last thing is how big is he and what tank size?What gar? Those tiger shovelnoses will get big so have fun wit them!!