Hi.
Put 8x small (~3") albino iridescent shark & 8x tiny albino pacu into client 's planted pond ~8weeks ago.
5~7 pacu still there, the smallest maybe a little bigger than a US silver-dollar, and the rest nearly as big as my palm.
The sharks have barely grown and there are only 4 remaining, only one of which has more than one eye. Is it the pacu?
Other stock/suspects include goldfish & koi, angels, guppies and blue & purple african cichlids that I'd have to look up... blue Labs, maybe? I'm to re-add yellow labs after Xmas, is why I remember.
He's had normal colour small/grow-out ir.shark previously without issue. Only new variables are the albinism & the pacu.
If it is the pacu, then we'll be maybe unwise to move them into the main pond(s) with the big/mature sharks, oscars, koi etc... Thoughts?
Put 8x small (~3") albino iridescent shark & 8x tiny albino pacu into client 's planted pond ~8weeks ago.
5~7 pacu still there, the smallest maybe a little bigger than a US silver-dollar, and the rest nearly as big as my palm.
The sharks have barely grown and there are only 4 remaining, only one of which has more than one eye. Is it the pacu?
Other stock/suspects include goldfish & koi, angels, guppies and blue & purple african cichlids that I'd have to look up... blue Labs, maybe? I'm to re-add yellow labs after Xmas, is why I remember.
He's had normal colour small/grow-out ir.shark previously without issue. Only new variables are the albinism & the pacu.
If it is the pacu, then we'll be maybe unwise to move them into the main pond(s) with the big/mature sharks, oscars, koi etc... Thoughts?
