Peacock Bass Care Help

[Young_Fish_Keeper]

Hey everyone, i've been doing research on some Peacock Bass, and i love the colors they bring to the tank & i've waited for the longest time to get one. I know how big they get and what not, but i have no personal experience at all. Im thinking of buying it online from aqua bid. Its a Ocellaris, and it comes in around 2", & is being fed feeders. Does anyone have any personal experience they would like to share, or tips on keeping the tank a certain temperature when small, or how to get them to accept other foods? Any info is welcome, Thanks !

 

[crxlsturbo]

Hey everyone, i've been doing research on some Peacock Bass, and i love the colors they bring to the tank & i've waited for the longest time to get one. I know how big they get and what not, but i have no personal experience at all. Im thinking of buying it online from aqua bid. Its a Ocellaris, and it comes in around 2", & is being fed feeders. Does anyone have any personal experience they would like to share, or tips on keeping the tank a certain temperature when small, or how to get them to accept other foods? Any info is welcome, Thanks !

I'm no expert but I just recently picked up a pb about 2 months ago. They're a chill fish. But make sure you don't have any small fish in there. They'll try and eat them. Right now I have a pb in my 55 gallon that's about 3"and he's chasing my firemouth around like it's food. They firemouth is still small but it's growing fast. I tried for about 2-3 weeks to get mine off of feeder fish which he was feed at the lfs. Now he eats hikari massive pellets all the time. Just starve him and he'll start eating pellets. I just hated going to the lfs and buying feeder fish. Just make sure you have a big enough tank if you plan on getting one. Once mine grows to about 5-6" he'll be going to my 240 where all my big fish are. Good luck on your pb

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[theskibag]

I have three ocellaris which are around 1' now. Best tip I could give would be warm water when they are small. Around 30 to 32 degrees Celsius.

Get the off feeders as soon as possible. When mine were small I fed them bloodworms and small bits of prawns. Now they eat the 7.5 NLS pellets and market shrimp.

Great fish but do need a big tank

Hope that helps a bit

 

[bigpac]

I have three ocellaris which are around 1' now. Best tip I could give would be warm water when they are small. Around 30 to 32 degrees Celsius.

Get the off feeders as soon as possible. When mine were small I fed them bloodworms and small bits of prawns. Now they eat the 7.5 NLS pellets and market shrimp.

Great fish but do need a big tank

Hope that helps a bit

X'2 give em plenty to eat( get them on pellets asap so much easier and won't give your fish ip's), plenty of water changes and its pretty straight forward from there but you do have to keep your water right until there about 6" then there pretty hardy but flukes can still happen to us as chicla keepers, what I do for my herd is 2x a week 50% WC, food once a day (now but younger I was feeding up to 3x's a day) salt every 3-4 water changes and prime after wc. Smaller bass can catch ich easy so keep posting questions and let the pros help out. But welcome to the addiction lol!!(I'm no pro, this is just what works for me)

 

[7Jason]

If you raisethe temp to 86 degrees then they will eat more since they need more metabalisim get them off live soon or they will be addicted give them cichlid gold or massivore carni sticks cut in half and try bloodworms or frozen too. You should expect at least 1 inch a month when 7" or so if you ve them in a 50 G or less move them the will grow to feet plus and warning: They eat a lot!

 

[Young_Fish_Keeper]

Thanks for all the info everyone!