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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

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.

Dat update and rundown:

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:

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

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

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

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:

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/

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.

Night snack for apurensis and two hybrids:

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

My turn is to look up "masticate"

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Gluing 300 gal tank from two 120 gal:

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:

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

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