Such a lucky coincidence!

[Xeno]

Hey,
in this thread right here I mentioned buying a Mastacembelus tinwini online.
Well for month I was looking for M.dayi but couldn´t find a single one in Germany so I moved on and got ok with keeping M.tinwini or M.armatus instead.
An hour ago the delivery was brought to my house.

After opening the package I couldn´t believe my eyes:
This is no Tinwini.
THIS is a DAYI!
And it´s a big one, about 25cm in length already!

 

[kno4te]

Nice surprise!

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

Very nice! Looks good and healthy.

 

[ECW]

Grats!

 

[Renegade Aquatics]

Beautiful fish, congrats indeed

 

[larrydafishguy]

Beautiful eel, lucky indeed!

 

[larrydafishguy]

Post some pics of it settled in the tank??

 

[Xeno]

Hey,
I will!
I had to move my "little" guy ´cause he tried to kill my 2-3 inch angelfish.
That´s the tank he/she is living in right now.
The current stock consists of:
2,2 Geophagus Tapajos Red Head
1,2 Metynnis altidorsalis
2 Epalzeorhynchos bicolor/frenatum
3 Pimelodus pictus
1 Cochliodon basilisko
1 Mastacembelus dayi

I want to sell the eartheaters and the Epalzeorhynchos and try to keep some adult Pterophyllum sp. Rio Nanay in there.

 

[Xeno]

Hey,
here´s a short clip of my M.dayi.
I´m keeping him with fast eaters so I had to figure out how to get him to eat bloodworms.
Since the little guy´s wild caught there were some issues feeding him "dead" food.

 

[Hoplo]

Lucky you. It is a very nice looking fish.