Vieja Melanura Laguna Yaxha

[FishKing5]

A little update on my dominant male vieja melanura Laguna Yaxha. Got him from Jeff rapps at about a half inch of size last year October. He's now a good 10+ inches. No more females in the tank with him. He will get right to work with any female instantly. Don't have time to raise fry right now. Here's a picture of him when I first got him and a pic what he is now. Awesome fish. Highly recommend breeding them. Their breeding dresses are extremely beautiful.

 

[CrazyPhishMan]

Besides that argentae what else is in your setup? Looks awesome BTW- at what size did the color start to pop?

 

[FishKing5]

Besides that argentae what else is in your setup? Looks awesome BTW- at what size did the color start to pop?

Synspilum and then just the Argentea. The colors on this male started popping at 1 inch. Here's a pic for reference about a month after I got him. From my experience it's all luck with the genes of the fish to get real good color. I raised him with multi day water changes though along with Vita Chem soaked pellet. My fish are quite spoiled.

First pic is him 3 weeks after I got him.
Second pic is him 2 weeks later
Third pic is him in December so a month later.
Fourth pic is him a month later from last pic and then so on.

 

[FishKing5]

Haha oops wrong pic for the first pic

 

[CrazyPhishMan]

Wow- allow me to scoop my jaw up off the floor- very nice. I have a single female myself- she’s muted but I think that’s because of my more dominate black belt.

The husky’s a looker too

 

[baxtor_lex]

Very very nice