What was I thinking? New GG in the house

[cockroach]

Nice little fish right there.

My RTGG was wondeful and sociable until about 6-8" when it started targeting any tankmates with a little red/orange. The oscars bore the brunt of it as they were the "most" red.
I am still convince he chased a cichla until it died breaking its neck.

Many people have better experience. But, as with any large fish, have a back up plan in place.

 

[DMD123]

Nice little fish right there.

My RTGG was wondeful and sociable until about 6-8" when it started targeting any tankmates with a little red/orange. The oscars bore the brunt of it as they were the "most" red.
I am still convince he chased a cichla until it died breaking its neck.

Many people have better experience. But, as with any large fish, have a back up plan in place.

Yeah, Ive heard tales of ones that didnt like silver or red fish and were just horrible and then of others that were the perfect fish. My hope is for the perfect fish, lol. Whatever the case it will get my 300 gallon tank even if it is solo. So far doing well with a male red severum and Australian rainbows. I really want small fish mixed in the the RTGG in the 300 and my hope was for roselines sharks but will see what he decides.

 

[DMD123]

Started getting new fish that will be RTGG tankmates. Picked up 6 clown loaches from Wet Spot in Portland, Oregon during a little trip.

The one to the right had a bit of unique ‘jigsaw’ pattern and the one to the left had a little spot, which may or may not develop. I want a couple more but just need to wait a bit since I spent so much on this little group.

Im thinking of a group of 9 of the clown loaches and then possibly some mascara barbs and/or roseline sharks with the hope the gourami is okay with them.

 

[12 Volt Man]

Hi from Big Charlie!

 

[danotaylor]

Waddup Big Charlie

 

[DMD123]

Found 3 more BIG clown loaches for the future tankmates to the RTGG, this one had a unique spot on him.

So I have 9 clown loaches in a 40B QT tank and once I run them through quarantine then they will move into the 90g community tank with the growing RTGG. From there to the 300g.

I want to do Mascara barbs too, but the fish are starting to add up in cost.

 

[DMD123]

Not a RTGG update but a future tankmate story. I was doing a count on clown loaches and kept on coming up one short and it was one of the larger ones. I was searching all around the tank with a flashlight looking for a ‘jumper’ and nothing. Finally I thought to look inside my Aquaclear filter… sure enough thats where it ended up. I had a high water level and it ‘went upstream’, lol

Also was at Wet Spot fish again and added another loach with a bit unique pattern

I now have two with this almost identical pattern. This brings me to 10 loaches for the 300.

Also picked up 3 (all they had) filament barbs and 7 roseline sharks for the 300. They are currently in a 65B quarantine tank. Looking for a couple more filaments now.

As to the giant gourami, he is growing quickly and is still in the calm stage of his life.

 

[danotaylor]

Sneaky lil bugger! I have a few smaller CL’s in a 40B with an AC70. Looks like daily counts are in order

 

[jake37]

Yea - i haven't gotten a good count on my clown loaches in a couple of years - most of them come out to greet me in the morning when i feed the adjacent aquarium - sort of a hurry up notice that i need to feed them. I have them in a 600 with lots of caves (large driftwood covered with flat slate) so they can always find a place to hide. As for wetspot i did pick up a couple of unique spots - since it was two of them with almost identical markings i was wondering if it was a catch location.

I have 13 total ranging from 6 1/2 to 7 inches down to 2 inches. Oh well - i once saw one over 13 inches at a pet store. They said they were trying to breed them but the male had jumped out (they were like 25 years old).

 

[danotaylor]

I was in JasonsPlecosCichlids fish room recently and saw 1st hand the biggest CL I have ever seen in 44yrs in the hobby, every bit of 12-13”. A true giant