Our first midas (I assume it is Amphilophus citrinellus) was donated to us by Madison of St. Petersburg, Florida, on Jan 20, 2020. It's a male, named Atan, and it was around 6"-7". I think his coloration is exceedingly cute. Madison says that face on he looks like a beluga whale that played with a bucket of red paint.
Since then in 3 months it has easily doubled in weight and tacked on a couple inches. It is really, truly a bottomless pit that prefers his NLS pellets but given 2" thawed whole glass minnows instead, he eats them all up too but with some hesitation and overcoming a noticeable disgust with my unfounded choice of offering.
Having evicted a 2' wyckii catfish, he's got his own 240 gal tank apart from two large common pleco for house cleaning, who Atan bosses around in his spare time, puffs up, nudges and pushes them, occasionally trying to bite them but finding them as palatable as we'd probably find a pineapple. He also spends time posturing with a dovii in the neighboring 240 gal and is his own hero, although two panes of 1/2" glass separate them.
I'll be the first to admit I know next to nothing about midas except the most basic stuff. Like morphs, finer points of care and diet and cohabbing are beyond me. If you feel an urge to school me, by all means, give me the honor.
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Since then in 3 months it has easily doubled in weight and tacked on a couple inches. It is really, truly a bottomless pit that prefers his NLS pellets but given 2" thawed whole glass minnows instead, he eats them all up too but with some hesitation and overcoming a noticeable disgust with my unfounded choice of offering.
Having evicted a 2' wyckii catfish, he's got his own 240 gal tank apart from two large common pleco for house cleaning, who Atan bosses around in his spare time, puffs up, nudges and pushes them, occasionally trying to bite them but finding them as palatable as we'd probably find a pineapple. He also spends time posturing with a dovii in the neighboring 240 gal and is his own hero, although two panes of 1/2" glass separate them.
I'll be the first to admit I know next to nothing about midas except the most basic stuff. Like morphs, finer points of care and diet and cohabbing are beyond me. If you feel an urge to school me, by all means, give me the honor.
18:55-19:10 minutes:
