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

[Viktor Jarikov]

Added 5" in 7 months to reach about 7" length. Doing well. Water temp 86F/30C.

[FatCatDoorMat]

Wow, would love to see updates on the Amur cats and the Phalacronotus cats, the Phalacronotus seems to have grown considerably, and judging by their stomachs, are hearty eaters.

The hi-fin looks awesome aswell. Being in a tropical country all I see in LFS are dead hi-fins or very emaciated hi-fins, all juveniles and none near maturity.

[Viktor Jarikov]

8 months of pretty much not feeding and not being able to inflate a swimming bladder followed by a turn around... i had buried the fish already in my mind...

[Viktor Jarikov]

@FatCatDoorMat These have their own threads on the MFK. To find them in this thread, you'd have to look back and comb, which is inconvenient, sorry.

Yes, Chinese hi fins are a temperate water fish that are not too adaptable, so we almost never get to see (mostly tropical) peers showing their larger specimen.

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Back to our theme:

[Viktor Jarikov]

The syno eupterus and the hybrids were caught rasping a sun catfish, earning a way out of this tank and likely into the jerk tank with the Malawians and Co.:

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

The 5 barbels and 3 tarpon keep growing. From 2" to 12"-14" in 7 months.

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

Ornate pim vs blochii and pictus:

[Viktor Jarikov]

[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

[Viktor Jarikov]

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.

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

Dat update and rundown:

[Viktor Jarikov]

[Viktor Jarikov]

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:

[Viktor Jarikov]

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

[Viktor Jarikov]

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