This is what I preach to my kids & grand kids, only the truly wise do this...I’d rather learn from someone else’s mistakes than make more of my own
Moba grow out thread
- Thread starter danotaylor
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Showing some really nice deep purple-blue this morning 
9 weeks since arrival. Still kinda skittish when I approach the tank and put pellets in for feeding. They do come out to feed once they smell the food in the water.
Still planning to change the hard scape. Have a bunch of black granite I collected out of our yards landscaping. Is soaking in a trash can that got frozen solid just before snowmageddon a couple weeks back. Waiting on the thaw out now
Here’s an update pic, not much has changed, but really loving the group. At times all the white on their bodies has an overtone of deep blues. Very nice mobas
Still planning to change the hard scape. Have a bunch of black granite I collected out of our yards landscaping. Is soaking in a trash can that got frozen solid just before snowmageddon a couple weeks back. Waiting on the thaw out now
Here’s an update pic, not much has changed, but really loving the group. At times all the white on their bodies has an overtone of deep blues. Very nice mobas
Power washed a bunch of rocks today in prep to change out the 500gal tanks hard scape. Darker granite pieces, green-black to black colors.
Short video update. Sold 8 of the 18 mdokas yesterday. Now the tank looks even more empty Lolz. Bloody mobs group all hang out down 1 end of the tank, literally occupying about 100gal of space in the 10 footer
Wanna get a hold of some albino mdokas and maybe a small group of blue dolphins & OB dolphins to fill out the space whilst growing out the mobas to breeding age…over the next 3 years.
Short video update. Sold 8 of the 18 mdokas yesterday. Now the tank looks even more empty Lolz. Bloody mobs group all hang out down 1 end of the tank, literally occupying about 100gal of space in the 10 footer
Wanna get a hold of some albino mdokas and maybe a small group of blue dolphins & OB dolphins to fill out the space whilst growing out the mobas to breeding age…over the next 3 years.
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Thx Ken. A mixture of fluval bug bites, xtreme peewee & bug pro
Some thoughts...
I've been keeping wild caught moba for the last seven years and I've found that, for whatever reason, I've never been able to power-feed them and grow them quicker like other fish I've kept. If they eat more one day then surely the next day they eat less every time. It's like their growth rate has a max ceiling they don't exceed.
And this is assuming I keep their water at <10 ppm nitrate; in reality my 750 gallon moba tank water has never gone above 7 ppm nitrate. In the past when I kept moba in my 450gal with higher nitrates the fish ate even less.
I've been keeping wild caught moba for the last seven years and I've found that, for whatever reason, I've never been able to power-feed them and grow them quicker like other fish I've kept. If they eat more one day then surely the next day they eat less every time. It's like their growth rate has a max ceiling they don't exceed.
And this is assuming I keep their water at <10 ppm nitrate; in reality my 750 gallon moba tank water has never gone above 7 ppm nitrate. In the past when I kept moba in my 450gal with higher nitrates the fish ate even less.
