Some of my Wolves

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Sweet Wolves! I miss my Red.

Thanks bro! Should go get another red. or a different type! put em with those NTT

Should check his threads out, very nice and informative. I'm growing out two malas to comm with my curu then whichever one is more personable or active will be the one I keep. IMO only an aimara will be able to take a dovii out. They have more of a drive it seems, more persistence. My experience is only with malas and reds and they run from fish that didn't give up regardless if they were winning the fight. And aimara and lacerdae a are the only two to keep up in size with a dovii.

Right now the curupira is flaring up at everybody. he does it to the dovii but its just a bluff.. he freaking runs LOL. I gotta move my lacerdae out of the sump. need to power feed em faster haha lol. For the wolves i have now. I think I might not add any others unless im very tempted on a certain hoplias.

Nice Wolves!

THanks! bro

Nice! My old gold was crazy active. If golds had a red color and got bigger, I'd have a tank full of them. Love this species, nice pick up

thanks bro! This guy is very active.. everytime i come to the tank. he is begging for more food LOL. the Red is doesnt have a big appetite compared to gold. he always hungry

Never owned a gold. I've kept multiple rainbow wolffish(red I suppose) over the years. I like the Hoplias genus 2 to 1 over them. I think I'm subconsciously turned off by the blunt nose head shape. They are starting to grow on me a bit though.

I started off with a erythrinus sp peru. For me i didnt care on looks. He was straight awesome! he jumped for food and ate anything.. did not care who his tankmates were. But for size kinda bummed since most ery only max around 8-15" and compared to the hoplias. all average over 18"plus.


Here is the Curu. my sister let me use her phone for some pics. I am quite impressed with the quality

 

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[moe214]

Awesome wolves! Is the first pic the lac? Gold wolf looking good. It'd be cool to have a pack of say 12 in like a 600 gallon planted tank with some malas and pike cichlids, it'd be like the wild lol.

 

[crenicichla444]

Awesome wolves! Is the first pic the lac? Gold wolf looking good. It'd be cool to have a pack of say 12 in like a 600 gallon planted tank with some malas and pike cichlids, it'd be like the wild lol.

That's not the lac its the other hoplias sp.

I'd be concerned about the gold wolves and the pikes fighting but maybe if it was a 240 and u crowded them African cichlid style it could work

Looking good man, gold wolves sound tempting from what u say but I'm really in love with the lacerdae from Wes. Really nice little guy mines about 3 inches he resides in a growout 10 gallon and he's really well tempered and waits for everyone to be finished eating before he eats. Doesn't bother anyone either... Hope it stays that way lol


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[moe214]

That's not the lac its the other hoplias sp.

I'd be concerned about the gold wolves and the pikes fighting but maybe if it was a 240 and u crowded them African cichlid style it could work

Thanks for the clarification. And a 600 is bigger than a 240 though.. I was thinking base print of 8x4. With lots of driftwood and plants with a small rock to sand substrate. I just got the idea from that documentary on youtube. They were all together. And the pikes seemed to be medium sized species. Maybe the saxitillis group I think it is? Idk much about pike cichlids lol definitely no where near as much as you and some other members, I like oddballs or fish with weird capabilities.

 

[crenicichla444]

Thanks for the clarification. And a 600 is bigger than a 240 though.. I was thinking base print of 8x4. With lots of driftwood and plants with a small rock to sand substrate. I just got the idea from that documentary on youtube. They were all together. And the pikes seemed to be medium sized species. Maybe the saxitillis group I think it is? Idk much about pike cichlids lol definitely no where near as much as you and some other members, I like oddballs or fish with weird capabilities.

Yep I meant 240... I find sometimes crowding highly aggressive fish that don't get more than a foot usually makes things work. U wouldn't want to do a sax you'd probably want a smaller lugubris sp. since although gold wolves don't get bigger than a foot they play rough. A 8x2x2 would be fine for life for a nice group of both pikes and erys. I'd toss out the mala though eventually I can see one munch on the gold wolves


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[moe214]

Yep I meant 240... I find sometimes crowding highly aggressive fish that don't get more than a foot usually makes things work. U wouldn't want to do a sax you'd probably want a smaller lugubris sp. since although gold wolves don't get bigger than a foot they play rough. A 8x2x2 would be fine for life for a nice group of both pikes and erys. I'd toss out the mala though eventually I can see one munch on the gold wolves


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Idk if it's just been my experience but I find any fish in before the malas I've had we're left alone whether it was a possible meal or just a possible threat. And I get it now, that you're saying to over crowd it. I just figured since so many they'd appreciate extra width since they stay towards the top down to about the middle of the water column from my understanding. And are they more aggressive or? The sax that is.

 

[crenicichla444]

Idk if it's just been my experience but I find any fish in before the malas I've had we're left alone whether it was a possible meal or just a possible threat. And I get it now, that you're saying to over crowd it. I just figured since so many they'd appreciate extra width since they stay towards the top down to about the middle of the water column from my understanding. And are they more aggressive or? The sax that is.

Well the problem I see with that is all your wolves are babies you haven't kept and grown any till adult hood, which at a similar size it could work fine but malabaricus can grow much larger than unitaeniatus. From other people's experiences adults are often pretty ornery. I can see the unitaeniatus getting chomped. The lugubris pikes will be fine.

Many hardcore crenicichla keepers don't often keep their pikes with other oddballs usually stick with cichlids but I for one prefer mixing them with oddballs. They look fantastic with most oddballs. Saxatilis sp. are smaller pikes and usually less aggressive than lugubris type pikes.


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[moe214]

Well the problem I see with that is all your wolves are babies you haven't kept and grown any till adult hood, which at a similar size it could work fine but malabaricus can grow much larger than unitaeniatus. From other people's experiences adults are often pretty ornery. I can see the unitaeniatus getting chomped. The lugubris pikes will be fine.

Many hardcore crenicichla keepers don't often keep their pikes with other oddballs usually stick with cichlids but I for one prefer mixing them with oddballs. They look fantastic with most oddballs. Saxatilis sp. are smaller pikes and usually less aggressive than lugubris type pikes.


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The mala I was talking about is my old one from my profile pic, in that pic he was 12 inches. I grew him to 13-14 inches before he got a big piece of chunk tooken out of him by a tank mate and died sadly. There was a small female convict about 4 inches he could have eaten, I know this because I figured since she was fine I bought a pair of jewel cichlids (female smaller male probably same size if not a little larger) to breed in the tank and the fry would just be an extra snack, he ate the pair in one night. And malas in aquariums don't get to large, the largest I've read of was Liam's in the 1600 that the stingray stung if my memory serves me right (May be just a different wolf). I don't think a mala would eat a gold wolf that is a foot in my opinion. And do they have bad outcomes or they just don't like the look? And I see what you mean now. Thanks for the info.

 

[moe214]

Well the problem I see with that is all your wolves are babies you haven't kept and grown any till adult hood, which at a similar size it could work fine but malabaricus can grow much larger than unitaeniatus. From other people's experiences adults are often pretty ornery. I can see the unitaeniatus getting chomped. The lugubris pikes will be fine.

Many hardcore crenicichla keepers don't often keep their pikes with other oddballs usually stick with cichlids but I for one prefer mixing them with oddballs. They look fantastic with most oddballs. Saxatilis sp. are smaller pikes and usually less aggressive than lugubris type pikes.


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Here's an old pic I was able to find


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