Anyone have experience with a curupira that is always swimming about. I was always under the impression that hoplias species were quite inactive during the day, but my curupira is always out and begs for food with my Oscars, bass, and gold wolves. I've even caught him a few times participating in the schooling and chasing behavior of my much larger gold wolf fish. When he isn't out he always trys to huddle up with my intermedius wolf as well. I just thought that this was odd behavior for curupira.
Very active curupira.
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I kept my curu with peacock bass and large silver dollars, and he was very active. Sometimes he would even school with the sd's and pace the tank back and forth. Much more active than my old mala.
Here's a pic of him swimming with his mates
My curu swims along the bottom all day slowly, sometimes he'll swim around. But at night he doesn't sit down, I've had nights where I stayed up till 5 in the morning and the whole night you can see him swimming back and forth at the surface. Curus are lazy when compared to other active fish, but active when compared to other hoplias. They're pretty active. The only weird behavior I see that you reported was it laying with the other hoplias. Curus are usually trouble when it comes to any hoplias species. Maybe cause yours is not only smaller but still young so it hasn't developed that attitude yet. Or maybe the other wolf has it in its place. Or maybe you just got lucky. Whatever the case, that's good to hear and what I'd hope for personally.
My Curu is super active, he rarely sits still. He swims at the top and mid-level of the tank during the day and patrols back and forth during the night. He displays some of the same characteristics that yours display.
Curupira are very active! I love mine. Beats any other wolf hands down when coming to being active(Hoplias genus) my aimara only moves for food or to be ******* lol. Gonna keep him on the starved side keep him mean hehehe
We should name this the Curupira behavioural thread. LOL!
Mine was initially patrolling all over the tank but at the moment found itself an open territory behind the tank and stays there most of the time. Perhaps there are few other big and dominant fishes inside therefore it doesn't want to go exploring too much.
It does snap around other Hoplias species inside the tank (being the biggest wolf there) but at the moment nothing too dramatic.
Mine was initially patrolling all over the tank but at the moment found itself an open territory behind the tank and stays there most of the time. Perhaps there are few other big and dominant fishes inside therefore it doesn't want to go exploring too much.
It does snap around other Hoplias species inside the tank (being the biggest wolf there) but at the moment nothing too dramatic.