My new Pearsei

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jaws7777

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http://Sorry for the crappy quality will try and get better pics tomorrow. Did great in qt ate like a champ but since going in the 150 hes having a hard time. Ate the first day but not the following two days... He's getting picked on by my HRP and vieja heterospilus. Hopefully things will calm down
 
Adding fish 1 at a time is usually problematic, because the new fish is at a distinct disadvantage, and the established fish that have the most invested, are reluctant to let any of that space/territory go (even young fish).
If the pearsei can make the first week, it should be OK.
I find pearsei and their close cousins bocourti are ravenous vegetarians, and do best when offered herbivore pellets, and leafy foods, and will also gobble up thawed, shelled peas.
My bocourti reduced a very woody, 3 ft papyrus plant to almost nothing.

They also the eat algae I scrape from the glass, and will eat clumps of algae I toss in from my pond in summer.

even better, they eat dandelions I pull from the yard.

 
Thanks d all the fish in the main tank are getting nls, algaemax, omegaone kelp pellets ocassionally, and peas/lettuce

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im sure he'll be fine. thats a big tank you have there. eventually he'll be bigger than every one. i call them cow fish haha
 
So the aggression seems to be dying down byt still not eating pellets. Weird though because he went to town on the lettuce. He ate fine while in qt.

he also cleared about 75% of the algae that was growning on a big dw

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Looks like Bocourti not Pearsei.....
 
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