mota update..

[hailmike]

well i've been thinking for about a week now of trying to get some new photos of these guys and just couldn't find time or just didn't feel like it haha. well i've had them for about a month now and they've all put on about an inch except for the one in the first picture who's only grown about a half inch and the one in the sixth picture who's grown about an inch and a half if not two. i think i got a pic of all of them except one that didn't really care to have his picture taken. please excuse the bad pictures, i couldn't get the camera to focus right (it kept wanting to focus on the background or rocks) and was working with bad light.

 

[themancmt]

they look good bro i was wrong. 100% mota just very late bloomers i guess. still not as red as all the ones ive seen for there size (males) but gitting there. the heads look alot more mota too good job on growing em out. that last pic on the bottom left is a fat ass fish lol.

i want to show you a pic of my 4" male to compare the color for the size.
1st is my 4" male
2nd is my 4" female
3rd is the same male at 3"

don't mean to derail just wanting you to see where im coming from.

 

[eggie]

they look good bro i was wrong. 100% mota just very late bloomers i guess. still not as red as all the ones ive seen for there size (males) but gitting there. the heads look alot more mota too good job on growing em out. that last pic on the bottom left is a fat ass fish lol.

i want to show you a pic of my 4" male to compare the color for the size.
1st is my 4" male
2nd is my 4" female
3rd is the same male at 3"

don't mean to derail just wanting you to see where im coming from.

its the lighting, if you see them in person they look just like yours.

 

[themancmt]

i knew it had to be something

 

[Otherone]

Look great!................actually just like mine

 

[hailmike]

they look good bro i was wrong. 100% mota just very late bloomers i guess. still not as red as all the ones ive seen for there size (males) but gitting there. the heads look alot more mota too good job on growing em out. that last pic on the bottom left is a fat ass fish lol.

haha yeah i know, two of them are real fat asses! no matter how much i try to fast them and target feed the other fish it doesn't help at all. my males look like your's but the females haven't started showing any real color at all but a yellow/goldish body and faded out copper. i've been feeding them nls, hikari food sticks, sinking carnivore pellets, hikari cichlid gold, earthworms, beefheart and frozen bloodworm and krill cubes. so it's a pretty ridiculously varied diet but i can't seem to do anything to bring their color out
once i move in a month i'm going to go into the market for their own 125.

 

[famous323]

Nice mota’s I really wanted some for a long time thought about it seriously for about 3 weeks but instead I went with gramoddes instead!

 

[hailmike]

Nice mota’s I really wanted some for a long time thought about it seriously for about 3 weeks but instead I went with gramoddes instead!

good choice, grammy's are awesome too. they don't call them mini-dovii for nothing . it's too bad there aren't any in my area!

 

[orinocensis1]

very nice

 

[hailmike]

thanks a lot, i was moving all their rocks around and what not because the biggest male mota has been beating up on my male festae and was trying to catch a couple of the ones that i thought might be female but it's really hard to tell still. also i think my jag might be female because it's cleaning out the pot i have in the tank and guarding it like it's made of gold haha.