Glad you guys like 'im! I can't wait to pump him up, maybe get a nuchal hump out of him. Nice to see you MAC, didn't know you were here, but I should've guessed. 
New pickup, short-bodied Texas
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Beef heart buddy, keep the nitrates under 20 ppm and pump him full of beef heart, you'll see huge growth rates.
I used to get discus to bulk up from 2"-6" in just under 4 months using a beef heart mix:
5 parts beef heart, 5 parts raw krill, 1 part high quality flake food - blend it all together, ball it up in suran wrap, place the balls in the freezer and remove em' one by one as needed. =)
I used to get discus to bulk up from 2"-6" in just under 4 months using a beef heart mix:
5 parts beef heart, 5 parts raw krill, 1 part high quality flake food - blend it all together, ball it up in suran wrap, place the balls in the freezer and remove em' one by one as needed. =)
I've got him and all my cichlids on a new diet:frozen beefheart, frozen bloodworms, frozen krill, chingmix, and hikari cichlid gold. I need to get some vegetable matter in there for my Texases soon. I have a bunch of H. carpintis fry and quite a few H. carpintis x Blood Parrot fry I've gotta get rid of soon, before they eat me out of house and home!
Word. I decided to vent the fish just now, as I sometimes think I can see a dorsal spot on him/her. I looked at the venting page, http://www.fishhead.com/articles/ventsex.htm and it didn't really look like any of those in particular, but I think it's a female. The vent and anus were clearly shaped like O o with the vent being considerably larger, with what could've been a breeding tube just baaaaarely poking out. Female, right? I'd love to toss my male H. carpintis in there with her, but I want to be sure I know its sex before I do that.
Honestly I'm not too familiar with venting, I mainly keep peaceful SA cichlids and as a result have never had to vent for potential compatability problems.
I do know that the females are more O shaped while males are more football shaped - pointy vs. round ect...but it's not somthing that I could give definitive advice on - and definately not somthing anyone should be telling you without seeing a picture, at the least.
I do know that the females are more O shaped while males are more football shaped - pointy vs. round ect...but it's not somthing that I could give definitive advice on - and definately not somthing anyone should be telling you without seeing a picture, at the least.
Turns out he's a she. She had a really dark dorsal spot today. I put my male carpintis of larger size in with her tonight. Bad idea. She whooped the hell out of him within minutes. I put an end to that quickly enough. How am I going to get her to play nice?? I've never run into this problem before; all my breeding females have been really nice up until this one. I'm not used to this stuff.
