I’ve decided to make this thread into a journal documenting the development of my P. saulosi tank. I will be adding more pictures and updates as the fish grow. Hope you enjoy it.
A little bit about the tank. It’s a standard 75 gallon. To the best of my knowledge I currently have 4 males and 13 females. They are from several different batches of fry, ranging between 6 and 10 months old.
I had 5 males with two fully colored. The dominant male was beautiful and didn’t harass other males, just kept them in check. Last week I needed to find a temporary home for an adult male L. chisumulae for a few days. I put him in my P. saulosi tank and my dominant P. saulosi male clearly didn’t appreciate the company. He was trying his hardest to evict the newcomer. However L. chisumulae male was at least twice his size and wasn’t bothered at all. The dominant P. saulosi male expanded all his energy following L. chisumulae around trying to defend “his”territories. And that’s when the second colored subdominant male decided to take over the tank. He waited until the dominant male exhausted himself and then one step at the time started taking over.First he pushed the ex-dominant male to the right side of the tank and they each defended half the tank. Then he started making passes to that side and they would fight, most times the dominant male would hold his ground and make the intruder retrieve, but sometimes the subdominant male chased the dominant male into the rocks. At this point I have already removed L.chisumulae male hoping it would restore the balance in the tank, but it was too late. The new dominant male has emerged and he turned out to be a bit of a psycho. Not only was he chasing everyone in the tank constantly, he pushed the ex-dominant male into constant hiding. In the pictures from 13/06/2012 you can still see both males, but in the pictures from14/06/12 you can only see the subdominant (new dominant male), because the ex-dominant male is hiding. The new dominant male was clearly on the mission to kill his predecessor. I didn’t want that to happened, so I cached the aggressive male and moved him out. It took the ex-dominant male half a day just to come out of hiding. Today he is doing much better, colored up and eating well, also he started defending his favorite rock. He is now the dominant male ones again. Still looking a bit frazzled, but definitely going to be alright. Hopefully he will pose for a couple of pictures soon.
13/06/2012
A little bit about the tank. It’s a standard 75 gallon. To the best of my knowledge I currently have 4 males and 13 females. They are from several different batches of fry, ranging between 6 and 10 months old.
I had 5 males with two fully colored. The dominant male was beautiful and didn’t harass other males, just kept them in check. Last week I needed to find a temporary home for an adult male L. chisumulae for a few days. I put him in my P. saulosi tank and my dominant P. saulosi male clearly didn’t appreciate the company. He was trying his hardest to evict the newcomer. However L. chisumulae male was at least twice his size and wasn’t bothered at all. The dominant P. saulosi male expanded all his energy following L. chisumulae around trying to defend “his”territories. And that’s when the second colored subdominant male decided to take over the tank. He waited until the dominant male exhausted himself and then one step at the time started taking over.First he pushed the ex-dominant male to the right side of the tank and they each defended half the tank. Then he started making passes to that side and they would fight, most times the dominant male would hold his ground and make the intruder retrieve, but sometimes the subdominant male chased the dominant male into the rocks. At this point I have already removed L.chisumulae male hoping it would restore the balance in the tank, but it was too late. The new dominant male has emerged and he turned out to be a bit of a psycho. Not only was he chasing everyone in the tank constantly, he pushed the ex-dominant male into constant hiding. In the pictures from 13/06/2012 you can still see both males, but in the pictures from14/06/12 you can only see the subdominant (new dominant male), because the ex-dominant male is hiding. The new dominant male was clearly on the mission to kill his predecessor. I didn’t want that to happened, so I cached the aggressive male and moved him out. It took the ex-dominant male half a day just to come out of hiding. Today he is doing much better, colored up and eating well, also he started defending his favorite rock. He is now the dominant male ones again. Still looking a bit frazzled, but definitely going to be alright. Hopefully he will pose for a couple of pictures soon.
13/06/2012
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