Umbee's pairs....

[catfishlover106]

what should i feed these lil 1"ers or smaller guys? can i use First Bites? or can they just eat crushed cichlid flakes? or can they just go ryt on to mini pellets(baby pellets)?

 

[PMK]

Daly City....im going to get some wild one from fish farm...and should arrive at my house on Sunday-Wednesday...so im still waiting on the shipments..

Hey im in South City neighbor

well i think their wild then again it could be some f1 frys...from a wild pair that ken was breeding or something...

The parents are wild not the fry i was going to get mine form him but found mine locally

he said their the good ones...i dont know what he means by that by must be a good batch or something

they are probably showing good coloration

what should i feed these lil 1"ers or smaller guys? can i use First Bites? or can they just eat crushed cichlid flakes? or can they just go ryt on to mini pellets(baby pellets)?

Id feed them whatever they take at that point.


What size tank do you have for the guys?

 

[catfishlover106]

Hey im in South City neighbor



The parents are wild not the fry i was going to get mine form him but found mine locally



they are probably showing good coloration



Id feed them whatever they take at that point.


What size tank do you have for the guys?

for ryt now they'll be in a growout 30 gallon till like around 4" then ill move them to my 55 gallon till 9" then into my pond that ill build pretty soon.A 8'x4'x3' pond...above the ground and stuff...can their be any other type of fishes that can go with the umbee? i know that their aggressive and all and wont take anyone else in the tank easily...but is their at least 2 or 3 fishes?

 

[catfishlover106]

and yea..i asked him its f1's and he said they got good colorations.....oh their this one guy who lives near me..and he wanted to trade my 6 f1s frys for a wild pair he got a while ago...he said they havent made babies yet...and their only 4.5" what do you guys think of that deal?

 

[catfishlover106]

should i do it or not?

 

[PMK]

and yea..i asked him its f1's and he said they got good colorations.....oh their this one guy who lives near me..and he wanted to trade my 6 f1s frys for a wild pair he got a while ago...he said they havent made babies yet...and their only 4.5" what do you guys think of that deal?

To me that sounds like a good deal since that is what your looking for a pair.


But on how you are going to keep them i dont know if theyll survive. Cause right now i have 8 or 9 1 inchers in a 20 gallon and started off with 10. And on my other group i had 4 2 inchers in a 55 and im left with only 2 since the others got killed by each other even after i have seperated them with dividers the little bastards dug under the divider and killed one so they are really aggresive i wouldnt recommend it but good luck on keeping them alive. Im not saying its impossible but the biger tank the better on growning them out.

And how about some pics of that pond you have Im interested on how you have it set up since Im intersted in one myself. Since it is the same area i could use some of your ideas

 

[fsc46]

No. I'm guessing they are females. Why else would they want to get rid of them and start over? FYI males are very hard to find. The rumor is, females tend to kill the males thus making them harder to find.

 

[catfishlover106]

No. I'm guessing they are females. Why else would they want to get rid of them and start over? FYI males are very hard to find. The rumor is, females tend to kill the males thus making them harder to find.

REALLY the females kill the males!! i thought it was the other way and it was just hard to find for some reason not being killed by a female...

 

[catfishlover106]

To me that sounds like a good deal since that is what your looking for a pair.


But on how you are going to keep them i dont know if theyll survive. Cause right now i have 8 or 9 1 inchers in a 20 gallon and started off with 10. And on my other group i had 4 2 inchers in a 55 and im left with only 2 since the others got killed by each other even after i have seperated them with dividers the little bastards dug under the divider and killed one so they are really aggresive i wouldnt recommend it but good luck on keeping them alive. Im not saying its impossible but the biger tank the better on growning them out.

And how about some pics of that pond you have Im interested on how you have it set up since Im intersted in one myself. Since it is the same area i could use some of your ideas

the pond hasnt been built yet...were still clearing out the concrete flooring and making the ground stable and hard and more even when we build the above ground pond later in june...

 

[catfishlover106]

No. I'm guessing they are females. Why else would they want to get rid of them and start over? FYI males are very hard to find. The rumor is, females tend to kill the males thus making them harder to find.

also he doesnt really want to get rid of them...he just wanted to start from lil guys now since he just got this pair from someone who caught it...they were around 2.5" when he got them...