Silver Datnoid Experiences - Share them pleez :-)

[Vancouver_98683]

What are your past/current experiences with Silver Datnoids? Kindly share and discuss here. This specie is the least appreciated and misunderstood. To make it easier. Can you include the following below? Thank u. I’ll include my history in the comment believed

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
B. Size u got it and size now
C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
D. Current or old Photo If u have it
E. Aggressive or Passive

Silver Datnioides polota (formerly D. quadrifasciatus)

Known Locales: Southeastern Asia, India (Chilka Lake, Mahanadi and Hooghly rivers), Bangladesh (Ganges River delta), Myanmar (Yangon and Salween rivers), Thailand (Songkhla Lake, Tha Taphap and Chao Phraya rivers), Vietnam (Mekong River Delta), Malaysia (Perak, Bernam, and Melaka rivers, Peninsular Malaysia; Sarawak and Rajang rivers, Sarawak, Borneo), Singapore (Pulau Ubin), and Indonesia (Batang Hari River, Sumatra; Sambas, Kapuas and Barito rivers, Kalimantan, Borneo).

 

[kno4te]

thebiggerthebetter

 

[Vancouver_98683]

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
* 1.5 cups per 100 gallon. Just a preference I maintain with my bichirs, characins, and my other dat pecies

B. Size u got it and size now
#1 grew a 3” to a 10”(died) several years ago.
#2 have one now that was 6” and now about 10.5”

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
* my first silver took about 18-24’ish months to go from 3 to 10”. Second silver from 6” to 10.5”. Have this one around 18 months +\-

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
*. I have to dig one up and take new one, lol.

E. Aggressive or Passive
* passive for both. Will swim away when I walk up. Current silver get chased on occasion by my larger indos and Ngt.

 

[krichardson]

I have never kept any of my silvers in brackish conditions but I also wound up trading or selling them after a period of time.Mine have all been the quickest of my dats to train onto pellets and they were very active most of the time.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

You know my story and it is all in here: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/7769824 but I'll play along a bit:

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
100% fresh, a couple of years at low TDS and hardness (1-3 drops) and a couple of years at higher TDS and hardness (4-8 drops)

B. Size u got it and size now
5" (2016), 13" (2019)

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
3-4 years, died couple of months back

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
See the thread above (will be updated soon; in line)

E. Aggressive or Passive
Passive.

Jush can share lots of experience with them, not long term but still.

 

[headbanger_jib]

I have many times kept these beauties, my best till date was when i got 10mm babies as a gift from one of native suppliers along with a few albino Rita Rita.
Below is my experience with them

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
Full fresh, never added any salt.

B. Size u got it and size now
Kept them for nearly 5 years, from 10mm in 2009 to 7-8" in 2014

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
Nearly 5 years, died when my niece emptied nearly a pound of dry shrimp in the tank

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
No pics now

E. Aggressive or Passive
Passive species

 

[Jush]

You know my story and it is all in here: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/posts/7769824 but I'll play along a bit:

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
100% fresh, a couple of years at low TDS and hardness (1-3 drops) and a couple of years at higher TDS and hardness (4-8 drops)

B. Size u got it and size now
5" (2016), 13" (2019)

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
3-4 years, died couple of months back

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
See the thread above (will be updated soon; in line)

E. Aggressive or Passive
Passive.

Jush can share lots of experience with them, not long term but still.

Me & Sam (thread creator) speak all the time on Facebook about Datnoides, Polypterus & many other species, Sam is one of the most knowledgeable people on this topic that I know, with a lot of experience. He helped me gain the knowledge I have today along with my own research. I have to thank Sam for a lot ?

 

[Jush]

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
100% fresh since owned.

B. Size u got it and size now
#1 Bought about 10", now 13"
#2 Bought about 10", now 12"
#3 Bought about 7", now about 10"
#4 Bought about 2", now about 5"

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
I have kept my larger ones for about 4-6months, and my smaller one for about 3-4months.

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
I'm on PC, have no photos.

E. Aggressive or Passive
Passive with the Indo datnoid in the tank, however, can be boisterous with each other, & the Indo sometimes joins in.

 

[Vancouver_98683]

A. Salt added or 100% fresh
100% fresh since owned.

B. Size u got it and size now
#1 Bought about 10", now 13"
#2 Bought about 10", now 12"
#3 Bought about 7", now about 10"
#4 Bought about 2", now about 5"

C. How long did u have it Before u sold it or died
I have kept my larger ones for about 4-6months, and my smaller one for about 3-4months.

D. Current or old Photo If u have it
I'm on PC, have no photos.

E. Aggressive or Passive
Passive with the Indo datnoid in the tank, however, can be boisterous with each other, & the Indo sometimes joins in.

Jush . Had no idea you were on mfk. Lmao. ... appreciate the kind words. You’ve got one of the largest silvers in the UK. Keep it up! Hope they grow for u some more. I mean.... If u decide to keep em. Hehe Which you should cuz it’s a rare feat to have them surpass 12”.

 

[Jush]

Jush . Had no idea you were on mfk. Lmao. ... appreciate the kind words. You’ve got one of the largest silvers in the UK. Keep it up and hope they grow some more. If u decide to keep em. Hehe

I think they're staying unless someone comes to me with too much money to comprehend, they're still on the list of my fish I'm selling, but not in any rush & very unsure about it, been on MFK a while just don't really talk here much ? unlike how much I talk on Facebook ? I'd love to say they actually are the biggest, especially the 13", I'm waiting for someone to disprove me... lol £30 for a possible record Datnoid, wowcha