My Herichthys Carpintis jornal

[Jexnell]

In this thread I will be keeping a journal of the growth and development of my group of five h. Carpintis. I got them from Jeff Rapps. They are about 1.5in in size. Will be housed with some Roseline sharks that I have had for some time now. Hopefully when the Texans grow up they will ignore them.

The tank is a 6ft 125gal, it has an FX4 and an Aqua Clear 110 for filtration, Eheim heater and air pump. Black sand for substrate, rocks and a couple manzanita branches.
Here we have the beginning full tank shot. I read they like to eat algae so I let it grow out and it seems to be true, I catch them nibbling on it all the time. These guys have some insane amount of blue already. I started feeding them only NLS food since I got them. I have read that they need more veggy matter than some cichlids, they are getting a mix of algeamax, ultra red, and normal NLS pellets. Fifty percent algeamax, twenty-five percent each ultra red/normal.
They have been eating it so that's great. They have had some frozen bloodworms/Brine shrimp.

So here they are sorry but these guys never stop so hard to get real clear pics.


Any tips on these guys is greatly appreciated!

 

[Go_redfish]

They are beautiful. Cant wait to see them grow!

 

[Gourami Swami]

Looking great! I have always enjoyed carptintis, have had a few in the past. Sounds like you've got the care down, not especially demanding fish just jeep water clean as always. Hericthys are very cool group of fish.

 

[Stephen St.Clair]

Great pick up. I've never seen Texas / Carpintis that colorful and marked at such a young age. Those guys are comparable in color to Electric Blue JD 's.

 

[Jexnell]

Jeff's description of them from his site.

cb juveniles aka 'elec. blue carpintis' w/ knock your socks off color; most like the 'Laguna Escondida' population that I've seen

 

[MrsE88]

They are already so pretty. I’m very excited to see how these guys turn out.

 

[RD.]

Nice looking group of juvies. I have a young male Escondido, close to 8" now, that was raised on the same formulas. Only difference is I only fed approx 10% of the AlgaeMax when he was younger. Too much plant matter will reduce growth when they are young and growing out.

 

[Jexnell]

Nice looking group of juvies. I have a young male Escondido, close to 8" now, that was raised on the same formulas. Only difference is I only fed approx 10% of the AlgaeMax when he was younger. Too much plant matter will reduce growth when they are young and growing out.

Thanks for this info, I will adjust what I feed them to those levels. At what age did you up the AlgeaMax percentage. Also do you have a current picture of your male, I would like to see him.

 

[RD.]

I haven't upped the amount, as the other formulas also contain an ample amount of aquatic based plant matter so I think overall he is already getting plenty. Washed out from the flash, but here he is in spawning mode.

Not sure why but the pic vanished?

 

[RD.]

second attempt...