I think that I have finally cured my poor beat-up little Jaguar cichlid. After better then a month in the hospital tank, all of its scales and skin are fully recovered and now has an awsome pattern. All of his lower fins and tail have healed perfectly. His top fin was chewed all the way down to the body in the center, so even though the infection is healed it still looks like two seperate top fins (front and back)!
My little buddy was fed a massive 3x a day diet with many types of different market fish, shrimp and scallop as well as numerous live shrimps, fish and crawdads! Color crisps were used as a balancer for its diet.
In addition to feeder fish, various species of very inexpensive sale fish were introduced (and medicated) along with the Jaguar and it promptly used them as sparring partners very rarely allowing any of the QT fish to survive more then 30 seconds. It is now grown quite large, and finally getting aggressive enough to defend itself as to be moved back into population.
Last week I introduced him into a tank with three young ~ 7" Floridar Gars and two Butterikofi Tilapia cichlids 4.5 & 5.5". The big butterikofi was originally the boss in the tank, and did freighten the Jaguar into a 4" diameter PVC cave at first. After around 10 - 15 minutes of adjusting to the tank the Jaguar came out of hiding and played the show the large mouth game with the bigger butterikofi. It is now the king of the tank!
My little buddy was fed a massive 3x a day diet with many types of different market fish, shrimp and scallop as well as numerous live shrimps, fish and crawdads! Color crisps were used as a balancer for its diet.
In addition to feeder fish, various species of very inexpensive sale fish were introduced (and medicated) along with the Jaguar and it promptly used them as sparring partners very rarely allowing any of the QT fish to survive more then 30 seconds. It is now grown quite large, and finally getting aggressive enough to defend itself as to be moved back into population.
Last week I introduced him into a tank with three young ~ 7" Floridar Gars and two Butterikofi Tilapia cichlids 4.5 & 5.5". The big butterikofi was originally the boss in the tank, and did freighten the Jaguar into a 4" diameter PVC cave at first. After around 10 - 15 minutes of adjusting to the tank the Jaguar came out of hiding and played the show the large mouth game with the bigger butterikofi. It is now the king of the tank!
