My Planiceps Journal

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catman;4928941; said:
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I'll try to get some pics up tonight. I finally got them moved over to the 55 but after moving them really noticed that I need to step up my effort on getting some kind of temp pond setup within in the next 2 weeks to move them to. Rough eye ball estimate puts the biggest around 7" and the smallest around 6". They still school together and often times you can find all four of them stacked up more or less on top of each other sitting in the current.

Hopefully the weather will warm up here before long and I could setup the temp pond outside or just start the build on my outside pond and move them out there for a few months. We will have to see what it does in the next couple weeks temperature wise. Worst case scenario I'll setup a 12' intex pond as a holding tank until I can finish the real pond because I need to move all my other beasts from my folks house to my new house anyhow and can't house the Planiceps with those guys for another 2 months probably.
 
Would love to see pictures. I plan to try an get ahol of a few planiceps this summer, but I may just have to wait until next spring when they come out again.
 
Great stuff amazon, thank you.
I would love to mix my Tig, Jurense, Goslinea etc but would be worried of them fighting & damaging each other.
Can I ask what size is the shared tank they are in?
Mine are different sizes which makes it difficult also, Tig is around 16 -18", Jurense around 8 ", Goslinea around 10"
Too risky me thinks
 
redtailrob;4932904; said:
Great stuff amazon, thank you.
I would love to mix my Tig, Juruense, Goslinea etc but would be worried of them fighting & damaging each other. Can I ask what size is the shared tank they are in? Mine are different sizes which makes it difficult also, Tig is around 16 -18", Jurense around 8 ", Goslinea around 10"
Too risky me thinks
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The Tig/Jur/TSN are in a 240 gallon its 96"x24"x25" but the TSN is too big for that tank I just haven't had time to get my pond setup yet at the new place.

I wouldn't risk putting the smaller two in with the big Tig. I would think it would be fine housing the Jur and Goslinea together though easily as long as they are in a large tank like a 180g+ the only issue I see with those is that the both really like being in the current so if you only have one filter return creating current they might compete for the same spot.
 
amazonfishman;4929994; said:
I'll try to get some pics up tonight. I finally got them moved over to the 55 but after moving them really noticed that I need to step up my effort on getting some kind of temp pond setup within in the next 2 weeks to move them to. Rough eye ball estimate puts the biggest around 7" and the smallest around 6". They still school together and often times you can find all four of them stacked up more or less on top of each other sitting in the current.

Hopefully the weather will warm up here before long and I could setup the temp pond outside or just start the build on my outside pond and move them out there for a few months. We will have to see what it does in the next couple weeks temperature wise. Worst case scenario I'll setup a 12' intex pond as a holding tank until I can finish the real pond because I need to move all my other beasts from my folks house to my new house anyhow and can't house the Planiceps with those guys for another 2 months probably.
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Sounds good, take your time fish come first;)
 
Week 6: I've got them moved into the 55 and they have settled in nicely, they definitely seem to appreciate the longer tank. I realize it is still a small tank but they are just growing out in it until they are large enough to go into one of my larger tanks so rest assured :)

Biggest is around 7" or so now and they have all evened out size wise at this point for the most part with the size gap being less than 1" between largets and smallest. They still sit stacked on top of each other at times just chillin which I find interested. They seem to school more like Lima shovelnose do.

On with the pics!

EDIT = some upload error so pics aren't working at the moment...I'll try again later tonight
 
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