Malawi blue dolphin growth rate and shoal size.

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nishant_datta

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Hi,

I just bought six malawi dolphins (c.moorii) for my 180 gal. malawi community.

Is a shoal of six ok ?? too many or needs more ??

Also, they're all about 3 inches right now. what's their growth rate ?? I mean how long before they get to 7-8 inches ??

Thanks.

here's one of them :

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A shoal of six should be pretty much ok but will also depend on your ratios of male to female as well.. N sometimes it depend on the shoal u get.. Like human some friends jus clicks but others dun...Water condition, layout as well as food also plays a part to the grps' behaviour

These fish does not really grow vv fast in my opinion but it boils down to the feedin and wc regime... In my opinion, adequate feedin with more wc will induce growth instead of overfeeding..
 
cichildae;1391909; said:
A shoal of six should be pretty much ok but will also depend on your ratios of male to female as well.. N sometimes it depend on the shoal u get.. Like human some friends jus clicks but others dun...Water condition, layout as well as food also plays a part to the grps' behaviour

These fish does not really grow vv fast in my opinion but it boils down to the feedin and wc regime... In my opinion, adequate feedin with more wc will induce growth instead of overfeeding..
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ding ding ding, Johnny we have a winner tell them what they have won...

so true... could not of put it better... also remember flake and pellets are not all the same... look at ingredients and see which is best. You spent money of fish why give them sub par food... they will never been as good as they could if you feed them crap...
 
congrats! i adore these fish, we have kept them for years...do watch out though!
when aggression starts they might head on high in the tank and if ya have openings you could lose a good fish!..its happened to us....
we normally keep one dominant male in the tank because he is going to truly be aggressive to the beta males....normally we have at least three females, so he tends to spread his attention, and intensions around a bit...lol...
he will be top dog in the tank, sort of a sargent at arms, keeping the peace if there is a ruckus with another type...yea really!...and ours is in a 135 with his females, and a very large collection of other fish...
as long as there are plenty of territories, and he definetly will select and hold what he wants...you should be fine once you figure out what you have....when he starts putting a lil meat on his bones he will develope that hump very nicely!
 
wow very nice ..someday i will get a few of these beauties...
 
mike dunagan;1391945; said:
ding ding ding, Johnny we have a winner tell them what they have won...

so true... could not of put it better... also remember flake and pellets are not all the same... look at ingredients and see which is best. You spent money of fish why give them sub par food... they will never been as good as they could if you feed them crap...
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Right on bro... I heard food slighty higher in protein is good for growth (kinda make sense for human too right) but this dolphins should benefit with some vege ingredients such as spirulinas... Kinda make the colour more outstanding ;)
 
Red Devil;1392842; said:
wow very nice ..someday i will get a few of these beauties...
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Dunno hows the mkt at ur side but right here in Singapore these fish are gettin alot more affordable as compared to several yrs back...
 
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