Mystery cichla grow out

[OTp1144]

Update since their move to the 55.



Currently 2 of 3 are eating cichlid gold, the other thinks about it but will still only go after blood worms.

I was a bit worried about the green sunfish being aggressive to them, but after I added the bass, they all started schooling together immediately. That was definitely unexpected.

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[arl]

just a comment on tank size.. I had my 3 Azul 1" in a 5 gal fluval chi tank for more than a month and they grew fast. easier to target feed them in a smaller tank. They could have stayed there for another 1 or 2 months but I got 5 (2.5") kelberis from Wes and a 3" silver arrow so I moved my azuls in my 55g for quarantine reasons. the kels and arowana is probably going to be in that 5 gal for a month. easier to pellet train them that way.

 

[OTp1144]

Problem is there was huge aggression in the 13. I'll probably move the smaller one not on pellets back to it once we replace it since it sprung a leak last night

 

[OTp1144]

Day 90 ~5": Pretty sure someone could ID these guys now. These two have absolutely exploded since they for on cichlid gold. The third is still half their size and only on bloodworms. He's in a 40g breeder alone until he gets bigger.

 

[arl]

pattern on body looks exactly like my bahia kelberi about 3.5" mouth/head is a little different . mine has that common grinning bahia duck mouth or maybe I just don't see it in your pic. my bet is kelberi.

 

[OTp1144]

I was leaning toward kelberi too, but the only reason I had doubts is the bars are outlined in gold. I've personally only seen that in orinos

 

[heatherbeast]

Not orinos, the bar would stop midway through the tail. On your little guys, it streaks through to most of the way through the tail margin.

 

[OTp1144]

Well then kelberi it is. I'm definitely not complaining.

Now to just get the little one on to pellets... I'm planning to start mixing crushed up massivore in with his bloodworms once we get back from the weekend. hopefully he'll take quickly

 

[OTp1144]

Came back from the long weekend to this. Only this guy, the other larger bass and a green sunfish in the 55... I put him in quarantine, added melafix and held him upright myself, but he was too far gone. I feel like I'm not meant to own peacock bass... :/



That being said, I'm not giving up and purchased some new ones over the weekend for $25ea. Thinking I'm going to add them here and make this my general grow out thread. So here's the three new ones.

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Sorry for the poor quality pictures. I was mid water change

 

[OTp1144]

4 of the 6