The New P-Bass

[pwmin]

Giving it a go again. I still have one tem, but I got 8 more Cichla today. Ray's Tank in Westminster, CO is awesome. Great to have a good store with rare fish again. Got 3 orinos, 3 xingu and 2 kelberi. They're in a 150 by themselves for now. Not going to put any more cichlids in there, though, maybe some dithers.

 

[Matteus]

Very cool. look forward to seeing progress. They look mint already. Nice score.

 

[pwmin]

Thanks. I'm going to do better this time. I haven't seen any major aggression yet, so hopefully I won't lose any. I never feed them enough. I put them in a tank right beside my couch so I can observe them closely. Going to try some pellets tomorrow; some of them were already eating pellets in the store. Need to put some fake plants in there. There's a lot of hiding spots in the piece of wood that's in there. I might try to add a couple azuls when I can find them. Not going to keep all of them long-term. I'm really excited to have orinos again. Hope they turn out nice. I love when they have rosettes without any spangling in between. I forgot to ask their origins. They had one fogo, but it's not for sale.

 

[Matteus]

Nice. What temp are you keeping them at?

I have mine at 84 and feed 2-3 times a day.

 

[pwmin]

Tank is at 82, so I'm going to bump it up a little bit. I used to keep them at 90 if I was feeding live. I'm hoping they'll take pellets or at least tilapia/krill/shrimp.

 

[pwmin]

Got some plastic plants in the tank and moved the tem and an endli to eat the pellets that go uneaten. I added 6 hemiodus and they already killed one. The orinos were starting to chase the smaller xingu more, so hopefully all this helps and they don't kill all the dithers/targets right away. I'll post some pictures when the lights come on.

 

[pwmin]

Hard to get them all in the picture. I'm only seeing 3 hemiodus. Looks like the tem ate at least one of them

 

[pwmin]

No casualties so far and no more dead hemiodus. Some of them will eat pellets, but they're not smashing the surface like the ones I've had before, maybe because it's a tall tank for their size. Any tips on getting them hitting the surface besides dangling feeders? I'm trying to avoid that at all costs. I might try dangling some chopped up silversides. They're still a little shy, though, too.

 

[aquaticeye]

No rush. Took one of mine 6 months to take from the top.

 

[pwmin]

They seem to like tilapia okay. Most of them ate at least a piece. The orinos and tem will be the first to hit as they usually swim towards the top and came up for the tilapia. I was hoping to get them to eat pellets before I tried other food, but I wanted them to eat something. The xingu will eat pellets sometimes, but they're the smallest and are low on the pecking order. The kelberi stick to the bottom.