My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?

[Viktor Jarikov]

2 year update on Hampala macrolepidota, doing well, 16", 4 yo, still in 1800 gal, from 5" to 16" in 3.5 years, slow grower

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I was unfair to tilapia. It was likely merely coincidental that after the addition of the tilapia, the damage started to appear on the snail bullhead. That was actually coming from a yellow bullhead, who used to be beta and the snail alpha but it was changing apparently (in retrospect) right when tilapia was introduced.

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Dat update and rundown:

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One tinfoil I assume got a cut from a fake coral decoration which has not healed in couple months but instead grew some. We had to take it out and sanitize the wound:

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As forecasted, the 5 syno raspers leave 1800 gal for the 240 gal jerk tank:

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The first moments of the syno quintet on the mother planet:

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An update on the Lithodoras trio. Looks like I have been overestimating their size before. Trying them in 1800 gal:

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Nope. 3 days in 1800 gal. Failure. The opportunistic, predatory, smart mahseer prove successful at biting little bits off the soldiers fins, little by little but incessantly:

[Viktor Jarikov]

Feeding issues had lasted 6-10 months. Had appetite but couldn't feed, spat out. Final 14", 6yo.



SImilar dissatisfaction with 4x brown bullheads: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/foru ... rn.698607/

[Viktor Jarikov]

The bigger one of the two young black ears is moved to 1800 gal and so far, in a week, successfully, especially in view of their extreme nervousness and in view of the failure of the same move by three 1ft soldier catfish, who were tattered up by mahseer.

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Night snack for apurensis and two hybrids:

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[naturalart]

First time ever seeing a lungfish eat. very interesting, masticates like a mammal. Thanks Viktor

[Viktor Jarikov]

My turn is to look up "masticate"

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Gluing 300 gal tank from two 120 gal:

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The seven Cubans started growing faster after we got 50lbs of Peru smelt (yellow tail, look like large glass minnows, ~5"-7", some anchovy species) and started feeding them more. The 4 biggest look like they are approaching 1.5ft. All but one (the smallest, no coincidence probably) still take pellets too:

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As last year, beta-female RTC tested alpha-male's physical strength as part of breeding behavior:

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Little, cute & boisterous turned large, drab & problematic: Sexi the 2ft Distichodus sexfasciatus in timeout: