W13's Creature Feature
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Update on my girl, shes been here over a year and is around 24"...Hand feeds pellets like a champ and will be making her way to my 450 or 500 in the next few months.
Nice and fat! Good job
Also how is that tank so clean?!
Thanks! She eats 3-4 small hand fulls of massivore pellets every 3 days. Tank is a 5'x3'x2' 230g. Shes the only inhabitant and its on auto drip 4gph. 96gal a day. I dont do anything outta the ordinary for filtration. Sump is a 65 gal with 2 30" socks and bioballs.
Pretty solid system! How is algae in the tank? I see nothing
Theres a bit on the floor from a close by window, the front glass accumuliates a bit of food dust also but nothin crazy... on the 2 days i dont feed i do vacuum this tank of any debris/turds. whats nice is i can take out 20-30 gal with the sump still running and the autodrip fills it back up over the next cple hrs. kinda like a mini w/c on top of the drip.
Tell us please how you determined the gender. I know how I guess the gender for mine but wanna know how you do it.
Not 100% sure but im pretty positive on this one... from what ive read females are more active, broader head/body and tend to be more personable especially when it comes to feeding. Ive owned atleast a dozen or more reg. rtc's. This 1 surpasses them all for personality, activity...and girth. On the reg. rtc's ive read u can tell by the amt. of black on the lower portion of the body. Females also will have a yellow sheen to them. The males will have more black on the lower portion... u can tell by the vent also... Ive never had a hunch before about cat gender but its pretty apparent on this 1 when u see the vent... looks very similiar to a female ray. Last evidence i have is this one was purchached by a friend who got 2. It grew faster and larger than its batch mate in a short time...a typical sign for female preds amongst most fish sp..... I may just be crazy lol... but theres a good article/post i read somewhere of a member who had a pair with breeding activity and the facts seem to be lining up with that info. ive had a few people say it looks like a short body. i believe its just the very broad head/upper body consistent with info on rtc females.
