Marbled lancer

[Fishman Dave]

Found this beauty at my LFS a couple of weeks ago and visiting yesterday no one had bought him.




He is 16 cm tip to tip (Over 6”) and cost me what I thought was a bargain price of £35.
Interested to see how he fits in my 100g (uk) mixed cat community with another 4” black lancer.

 

[Fishman Dave]

This is his home for a while.




And a few of his tank mates.

 

[fishhead0103666]

Who’s the fatty in pic 5 in your second post?

 

[Justepic]

That marbled lancer looks beautiful! I was contemplating one as they were in stock but they get too big for my tank and are apparently more aggressive than black lancers. What you gonna feed them?

 

[kno4te]

Nice pick up!

 

[Fishman Dave]

The fatty is either my big synodontus Angelicus who is 9” or my big female Redfin blue botai who is one of a group of 4 at 7”. Have a number of other botai and clown loaches in there too. Depending which is pic 5.

The whole tank gets fed a rotation of
D1 flake,
D2 high protein pellets,
D3 mussel and whitefish,
D4 cabbage, carrots and brocolli,
D5 bloodworm

Keep it mixed as I have botai, pins, clown plecs, bristlenose, eel, dwarf giraffe, Lima shovelnose, synos and lancers all together with barbs and distichodus. Half growing on and half in there long term.

 

[Gunfleet]

Synodontis angelicus are one of my favorites. Question: what's the Skunk looking botia in the picture with the p. pictus?

 

[Fishman Dave]

Think that one is indeed a skunk botai ( b. Horae) although I have others in there which were bought as yellowfin botia but appear to be a cross between skunk and redfin botia. Many were bought as b.modesta when real small but the 6 new “yellow fins“ have got red fins and skunk markings but blue bodies!
A real mixed fish.
15 different mixed botia in total.

 

[krichardson]

Nice lancer,I have had mine for a few years now.Mine prefers to hide behind a small stump during much of the day and becomes more active at night as it hunts for food.

 

[Killduv]

Nice pick up and a damm great price I might add. Also nice loaches as well. Cannot go wrong with them.