My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
An update on the Lithodoras trio. Looks like I have been overestimating their size before. Trying them in 1800 gal:
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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:
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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/
SImilar dissatisfaction with 4x brown bullheads: https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/foru ... rn.698607/
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
First time ever seeing a lungfish eat. very interesting, masticates like a mammal. Thanks Viktor
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My turn is to look up "masticate" 
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Gluing 300 gal tank from two 120 gal:
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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
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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Re: My Public Aquarium: exhibit blues - how to make them?
Little, cute & boisterous turned large, drab & problematic: Sexi the 2ft Distichodus sexfasciatus in timeout:
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