Whas your fish keeping style?
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I enjoy both but prefer a community. Just more of an experience watching them interact with each other, pair off and spawn, taking care of their fry and so on.
While a glass banging monster is a whole nother experience, I'm not one for wasting a huge tank on one fish
While a glass banging monster is a whole nother experience, I'm not one for wasting a huge tank on one fish
heavily aquascaped community tanks are my tendency so i can observe different behaviors and species from different locations, that way no matter where you sit you get to see something interesting and unique
I'm mostly a community tank keeper and I try to keep fish that are from the same area in each tank.
Community up until now, but, I'm starting to like the wet pet idea more and more. It's just really easy to put a fish by himself and not have to worry about fights, size and age considerations, disease outbreaks, feeding some fish too much to ensure another gets enough food, growth rate differences.
Wet Pets in a tank alone always look their best, no nicks in their fins, color's always right.
Wet Pets in a tank alone always look their best, no nicks in their fins, color's always right.
I used to be 100% community planted tank guy. Got tired of that after a few years of dealing with aggression, territories, illness, breeding, feeding time craziness, and just the maintenance behind it.
I now love my setup with my wet pet Kai. I have him with a group of synodontis catfish which i am not sure if they are staying or not. Going to grow them out and see how the behavior is.
Since the switch I have had an amazing time in the hobby.
I now love my setup with my wet pet Kai. I have him with a group of synodontis catfish which i am not sure if they are staying or not. Going to grow them out and see how the behavior is.
Since the switch I have had an amazing time in the hobby.
I've kept both for awhile, up until now I enjoyed the challenge of mixing cichlids. However, I'm sick of it haha! Fights, deaths, starvation and living in fear is not what I want for my fish or myself. Purchased a 180 and will be setting it up in March, 1 male jag, the synodontis angellicus he's been growing out with since about 1" and possibly my saxatillis pike. It'll be a short trial period and if it's anything but awesome it'll change. I have no doubt that the jag will eventually turn on the cat. As it is they only have a semi civil relationship, but nobody gets hurt because they're relatively close in size.
What about the lyonsi? You didn't even mention them haha. Overdue for an update unless I missed one haha
Sorry for the derail, had to call him out