New 8 inch Texas

[Dmaan.]

I have a 12 inch texas that I have had for 3 years now, grew him from a little 2 incher. He lives in a 75 gallon right now with a 5 inch royal pleco, and a sun cat which hides all the time. I couldn't keep any other free swimming fish with him... they would be chopped liver. I would advise you against keeping him with any other livestock you truly care about.... and I wouldn't even think about smaller tetras.... maybe adult red hook silver dollars, or a few cheap convict cichlids. The Hikari and bloodworms should be fine... maybe supplement that with krill every couple of days.
I do 2 50% water changes a week on my cichlid tanks... That will keep them very very happy and colorful. And, if you want intense color to show run an actinic light along with a daylight lamp. 20000 kelvin with a 6700 kelvin he will really sparkle. I just have mine decorated with a half inch of gravel on the floor... too much gravel in the bottom of cichlid tanks is bad bad bad... waste accumulates very quickly so little gravel will make things easier to vaccum and keep clean. Also decorate the tank with smooth river rock, large cichlids can easily scratch themselves on jagged rocks and lots of natural driftwood, and I float a big bunch of hornwort in the tank to help contain algae and for cover. Run a canister filter if you can afford it, or get online and get 2 emperor 400 power filters. That will be your best bet for a big cichlid. If you really wanted to discontinue MOST of your tank vaccuming (not excluding water changes) you could look into setting up a reverse undergravel filter... and decorate the bottom of you tank with larger river stones. Will help suspend excess fish waste where the filter can pick it up. Hope this helps.
Adam

Dap needs to post his beast, I'd love to get a glimpse or two of this texas.
Does he have a name?

 

[chloe]

very handsome/pretty

 

[Tonivlc]

its not a carpintis.

Hi, its an hibryd of carpintis with other. Its easy to recognice a cyano because there is only one variation, but carpintis are 6, and in the market are a lot of hibrizations

 

[Tonivlc]

Look this pics

This cyano of aquamojo with colour or bridding, see the form of points and his coloration

Look this cyano, the form,colour and points are diferent of carpintis, see the pearl points, are in line and are ordenated 100% perfect.

The sellers are confused with the species and they confuse us. They say are cyano but are carpintis

 

[Au Duong Phong]

He's a good lookin cyano texas. Very skinny though. Pump him up and you'll have a great fish.

 

[FSM]

Hi, its an hibryd of carpintis with other. Its easy to recognice a cyano because there is only one variation, but carpintis are 6, and in the market are a lot of hibrizations

I disagree.

 

[Tonivlc]

I disagree.

Then what are the thiference between cyanoguttatus¿ tell something about riverino, teporatus, de montaña, lacustrino, carpintis and escondido..

This are the variants of carpintis, cyano is very diferent of this. Cyano is the fish of the pics, you disagree, then, you say the fish of the pics are the same of pics in this post? I say NO

 

[FSM]

ok I'm not sure what you think I disagree with. That fish looks nothing like any carpintis I have seen, and instead looks a whole lot like a cyanoguttatus.

 

[brianhellno]

I'm still in debate whether or not I'm going to switch the rock and background. I'd like to get him a bigger tank and then beef up filtration and do some real aquascaping. Unfortunately I'd probably have to wait about a year but he looks like hell be ok for now. As far as other fish go he spends about 95 percent of his time staring down the pleco. Every now and then they fight but they haven't hurt each other. I get the feeling he would be relentless to any other fish in the tank. He also swims back and forth at the front of the tank when he's hungry so that kinda works out. I wish I knew how old he was but I would guess less than a few years.

 

[FSM]

they grow pretty quick. He'll probably get a bit bigger too.