Picked me up a shoal of Exodons :)

[SwissTrees]

Hey FishKeepers,

So my Exodons just arrived yesterday and are settling in their new home!

Ill try and get some pics/video up once they get comfortable. These guys are about an inch and a half right now so still juveniles in the grand scheme of things. When do they usually start getting their redish/orange hue on the fins?

I turned down the lights for a couple hours after placing them in and then flicked them on to drop in some small pellets and they straight attacked them! Very rewarding to see when they had only been in the tank for a few hours lol.

Tell me your experiences if you have kept them!!

 

[tlindsey]

Hey FishKeepers,

So my Exodons just arrived yesterday and are settling in their new home!

Ill try and get some pics/video up once they get comfortable. These guys are about an inch and a half right now so still juveniles in the grand scheme of things. When do they usually start getting their redish/orange hue on the fins?

I turned down the lights for a couple hours after placing them in and then flicked them on to drop in some small pellets and they straight attacked them! Very rewarding to see when they had only been in the tank for a few hours lol.

Tell me your experiences if you have kept them!!

The only advice I can give you is not to add any other species of fish to cohab with the Exodons in the wild they are scale eaters but have experienced them attacking and eating any small fish to the bones being left like their bigger cousin the Pirahna.

 

[SwissTrees]

The only advice I can give you is not to add any other species of fish to cohab with

Yep for sure they have their own tank! (well except for a few snails I did at least do my research on them before buying

 

[kewpiefishypewpie]

So cool, post a pic or video once they're settled in! Just curious what size tank one could keep a shoal of these guys in?

 

[fishnatics]

Ime keep them in a big shoal to distribute aggression. Bigger ones will pick on smallest ones. The longer the tank the better.

 

[SwissTrees]

14 in the shoal right now.
How about water flow? This was something I didnt find much info on. I know they are from the Amazon basin but not sure if that means high current rivers or some of the lesser flow tributaries/streams. I have a Fluval 306 with the standard "duckbill" power nozzle. Thinking about making my own spray bar to lessen the concentrated output of the nozzle as right now it is on one side of the tank spraying directly across. They seem to really fight it if they get right in the flow. But then again, they are small 1.5 juvies right now.

 

[fishnatics]

I had 3 canisters hooked up to my 135gallon and they had no problem swimming. I started out with around 21 or so. Can't remember it's been awhile and I ended up with 18 due to aggression. Now my brother has them and he has 14 or so left. My brother has them in a calm setting with slow current and tons of driftwood.

 

[Boomer1224]

so keeping 5 or 6 is a bad idea

 

[Experiment397]

All the ones I've dealt with seemed to have no issues with higher amounts of flow. Bigger groups are definitely better. The more the merrier. I've seen some catfish survive with Exos in larger planted setups but I'm not sure I would recommend it.

 

[tlindsey]

J Jes E. Welcome to MFK hopes this helps.