My two Black wolves

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caribemob;3648388; said:
my black doesnt move until night time, i think its because of the white gravel iam going to change when i move to black for sure
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I currently have very light sand aswell, I plan to syphon it out and use black sand.

phillydog1958;3648396; said:
:) nice, but scary. they capture the essence of what a true predatory fish is.
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Thanks. They do have a certain presence about them don't they.
 
The Ven Black the same as yours is very active, The second is very shy but is active when hungry. I think the secret is not to feed to much and keep them a little hungry. I feed then have a two day gap with all my large predators. Another specimin I know of is very simalar to mine and he also maintains a simalar feeding pattern.
 
hey jelly , i guess so but i went a week without feeding and he just stays there all day i was debating swapping him for another wolf maybe gold or prognatus
 
caribemob;3658373; said:
hey jelly , i guess so but i went a week without feeding and he just stays there all day i was debating swapping him for another wolf maybe gold or prognatus
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caribemob;3658380; said:
are you sure, becuase i thausght mine was a xingu black which doesnt get bigger then your ven black, now i'm confused:confused:
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I guess they all have their own personalities and yours may be just a bit more inactive. I wouldn't swap him. When he gets some real size on him he will be an awesume big black monster.

I have done a lot of investigation into this and the Xingu you have and the Venezualan I have are the same fish, now described as Hoplias curupira, part of the lacerdae group. curupira have a range through Venezuala and across northern Brazil including the Amazon and Xingu and a number of other rivers in the region, they cover the same range as aimara. By definition of the description of the species, ray counts etc. both the black wolves I have are the same species but I am not sure they are.

If you fancy a good read have a look at this doc. It describes the lacerdae group and their differences and locations. Now we need one of these for the Mala group. http://www.ufrgs.br/ni/vol7num2/v07n2a01.pdf
 
i know cause i want a mala species, but don't want a common one, i might get a microlepis too, but im not getting rid of my wolves
 
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