I sincerely hope everyone's fish are doing better by the hour.
I appreciate all the folks who keep a positive attitude and write posts that are actually helpful to fellow Cichla keepers.
It's disappointing to read a couple folks' posts who've so quickly become antagonists.
No harm has been done to them.
Those few members sound more dramatic than the Cat in the Hat for meowing out loud.
No need to buy into their propagandism by chiming along like a peanut gallery.
That's not what this site is about.
Please think twice about what you type before posting publically.
As I mentioned earlier, I have absolutely no need to sell a fish that has visible ich.
Take a look at the festae posted on my stock list. They were held back a week because they arrived too rough for my preference to ship to any customer. They were delayed in transit and overpacked, so here they still are.
As a precaution, I treated my Cichla stock with Jungle Ick Guard at 50% of recommended dose. This med does not contain formalin or malachite green. I've had good success over the years with using it on sensitive fish like baby Cichla.
They still remain totally uneffected by any signs of ich.
Their appetites are getting completely out of hand!
Here are photos that I snapped this afternoon of the same fish in the same 150 gal tank from which I packed all the orino orders last week.
Adding a little perspective to the orino stock I currently have on hand, the fish pictured below are the largest sized juveniles that my exporter's fisherman collected for me.
I still have well over 1000 pieces of 1"+ sized orinos in my tanks that I prefer not to market yet. These fish are also doing exceedingly well - eating and growing like you would expect of baby Cichla.
Some of you commented on how you thought the 1.5-2" sized guys were small. Imagine a fish less than one 1/2 the length and girth of those guys!
With a metabolism not unlike that of a hummingbird, I choose to keep all these little guys here; continuing to feed the bottomless pit of Cichla masses in those tanks and changing more water than Lake Superior holds!
Those of you who are offering them feeder guppies really don't need to to that. It's so risky to the health of your fish - particularly little Cichla.
They have been eating finely crumbled freeze dried krill, pureed raw shrimp, frozen bloodworms (as you can well see below!), and even sinking crumbles of aquaculture grade fin fish feed that almost all my juvenile cichlids eat daily.
