My experience with Midas/other Amphs and nuchal humps

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Amphilophus88

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Quite often when I am just browing through threads I see people ask how to get a big hump on their Midas, and most of the time people ask "what do you feed"?
So I feel I need to share some of my own experience.
As for me, food never made that much of a difference, but water quality, dominance and tank size did.
The Amarillo in my avatar had this huge nuchal hump when he was in a 200 gallon dominating over all the other cichlids flaring all day long.
After I put him in his own tank, his nuchal hump was all of a sudden a lot smaller. I fed him the same and the water quality was even beter then in my big tank, but the nuchal hump never came back.
That's just my input, since I feel too much attention is drawn to the food part (not saying that that isn't important of course).

Kind regards,
Mark
 
Not all fish will react equally to the same stimulus or environmental conditions. But I agree with you in that diet has very little effect on the size of a nuchal hump.
 
Ahh I see, my bad.

why is it your bad ?

Just because someone made a thread doesn't mean no one should ever post a thread similar ever again and the forum stops.

and I think it's dumb when someone says google it instead of asking the forum. lol


I have the same experience as you Amph88.. And water temp a lil higher would get them angry and big head.
here's my Midas.. He likes to bully others. and that's when his head pops.

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Not all humps are the same. Midas and Green Terror humps are watery, and can come and go with mood, sometime as short as 24 hours. To maintain big hump, they need some competition to be energized. Frontosa humps are formed slowly with age and is fixed in size in good or bad mood. I agree that food effect on hump size is over rated. Hump size is 80% genetic and 20% health which is linked to good water quality management.
 
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