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[jp80911]

nah I'm keeping him I like him a lot, and lacking an alternative like a piranha expert with an enormous tank for one solo comp, then I'm gonna keep him til he dies. We're planning on moving in a couple months and when that happens I'll get another tank (got my eye on a 240 long 96 x 24 x 25 Tall) and do a shoal of caribe or geryis. If I hang on to my guy for a few months I can enjoy him and a shoal at the same time. It's just hard being patient, especially when your only tank is a serra tank. Serras are fascinating and I'm more than a little obsessed, but even an active serra is less active than a tank with another type of fish like cichlids or something.

agree. that's why I have convicts in all my serra tanks, they keep the tank alive while the solo serra as the main fish keep everyone in order.

 

[Thow428]

If I can free up my 75, I'll take em, lol. But I have to reseal it. I was growing out a baby pacu, to put in my indoor pond, and well...Now I know why their called tank-busters. lol

 

[Diogenes]

agree. that's why I have convicts in all my serra tanks, they keep the tank alive while the solo serra as the main fish keep everyone in order.

yeah. I've tried jack dempseys, large adult convicts, oscars, tetras, plecos, crayfish, pretty much everything but snails, and he kills them in the first 24 hours. One adult male con made it sans fins and tail for about a month and then one day I came home to find a black and white striped chunk of fish about the size of a half inch square sitting on the bottom of the tank and my P was just looking at me like, "what?...I don't know what happened. Looks like..uh...like he had some sort of accident. Too bad. I was just starting to like him."

 

[jp80911]

If I can free up my 75, I'll take em, lol. But I have to reseal it. I was growing out a baby pacu, to put in my indoor pond, and well...Now I know why their called tank-busters. lol

yea, they get really huge. I'll check with you again once I'm ready to sell these bad boy. Where you at anyway? which part of NJ?

yeah. I've tried jack dempseys, large adult convicts, oscars, tetras, plecos, crayfish, pretty much everything but snails, and he kills them in the first 24 hours. One adult male con made it sans fins and tail for about a month and then one day I came home to find a black and white striped chunk of fish about the size of a half inch square sitting on the bottom of the tank and my P was just looking at me like, "what?...I don't know what happened. Looks like..uh...like he had some sort of accident. Too bad. I was just starting to like him."

do you have any hiding spots for those cichlids? mine actually dug tunnles underneath driftwoods other wise I don't think they were able to make it these long.

 

[Diogenes]

yea, they get really huge. I'll check with you again once I'm ready to sell these bad boy. Where you at anyway? which part of NJ?



do you have any hiding spots for those cichlids? mine actually dug tunnles underneath driftwoods other wise I don't think they were able to make it these long.

yeah flowerpots and driftwood. They burrow holes under the driftwood too. He's relentless.

 

[jp80911]

yeah flowerpots and driftwood. They burrow holes under the driftwood too. He's relentless.

must be one great hunter, too shame that you don't want to test him out with some larger prey.

 

[Diogenes]

must be one great hunter, too shame that you don't want to test him out with some larger prey.

what like a black diamond rhom?

 

[jp80911]

what like a black diamond rhom?

you read my mind, but in order to see his true ability you need to first have them both in the tank with divider so both can get use to the tank. few weeks later, remove the divider and seat back to enjoy the show

 

[jp80911]

you know what, I almost thought of putting the black into 180g to try a cohab but then scratched that idea out of my head after about 2 seconds.

 

[Diogenes]

if you have luck like mine your meek and shy black diamond would maul your outgoing and gorgeous blue diamond.