Tems and Occelaris

[richard yung]

Hey MFK girls and gals,

I recently purchased 2 Temensis peacock bass from Monster (NYC) around 8-9 inches long and put them into my 180g tank. As you can see in the second photo, the two Tems co-exist with an ocellaris (that i've had since 5inches), a red mammon, and 3 bichirs.

1) How quickly do Tems grow? Are they generally more aggresive than other peacock bass? Im planning on trading them in when they get too big (1 foot +)
2) Also, I noticed that tems seem to be skinny and long rather than short and thick like my ocelarris. Is that just how tems are suppose to look?

 

[tlindsey]

Hey MFK girls and gals,

I recently purchased 2 Temensis peacock bass from Monster (NYC) around 8-9 inches long and put them into my 180g tank. As you can see in the second photo, the two Tems co-exist with an ocellaris (that i've had since 5inches), a red mammon, and 3 bichirs.

1) How quickly do Tems grow? Are they generally more aggresive than other peacock bass? Im planning on trading them in when they get too big (1 foot +)
2) Also, I noticed that tems seem to be skinny and long rather than short and thick like my ocelarris. Is that just how tems are suppose to look?

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[isde02]

Hey MFK girls and gals,

I recently purchased 2 Temensis peacock bass from Monster (NYC) around 8-9 inches long and put them into my 180g tank. As you can see in the second photo, the two Tems co-exist with an ocellaris (that i've had since 5inches), a red mammon, and 3 bichirs.

1) How quickly do Tems grow? Are they generally more aggresive than other peacock bass? Im planning on trading them in when they get too big (1 foot +)
2) Also, I noticed that tems seem to be skinny and long rather than short and thick like my ocelarris. Is that just how tems are suppose to look?

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Tems are the fastest growing and largest growing species of peacock bass. When they are on a growth spurt and are feed properly they can easily grow more than 1-1.5" per month. They will thicken up for you but tems naturally have a longer build compared to ocells...ocells get thick and stocky.

 

[richard yung]

Thanks fellas!

 

[jobspopo]

tems can grow to be 3 feet long haha ... keep posting pics here as they grow up, would love to see the development

ps i was actually looking at these guys at monster just a week ago, beautiful fish

 

[richard yung]

haha will do ! so far im feeding them market shrimp and they love it, but they wont take pellets. My ocel loves pellets. I was hoping the tems would learn from my ocel but unfrotunately so far its not working. John gave me a nice discount for buying 2 :]

 

[Comanswoodwork]

Keep offering only pellets. I got a couple of the tems from there and it didn't take more than a week for the newest one to start eating pellets. It'll watch the other bass feed and eventually give it a try.

 

[StIcKy~RiCe]

Take it this way...if you have other species of bass all together at the same size and you offered them the same a mount of food. Tems will grow much faster and bigger than other bass. They are nice but to fast of growing and too big.

 

[richard yung]

Keep offering only pellets. I got a couple of the tems from there and it didn't take more than a week for the newest one to start eating pellets. It'll watch the other bass feed and eventually give it a try.

good news, a few days ago they accepted pellets. And now, they're all SMASHING pellets like crazy.