dimidiatus?

[Bill C]

Temp: 73: room temp, no heater
PH: 6.3:
Hardnes: 50 GH
Make up water: RO

Forgot to mention that there is a piece of drift wood in the tank

 

[discusone]

Bill,
joining in on the congrats to you.And i didnt hit my head to hard.I have been told theres not that much to hurt anyway.:redface:

 

[aquaticclarity]

Temp: 73: room temp, no heater
PH: 6.3:
Hardnes: 50 GH
Make up water: RO

Forgot to mention that there is a piece of drift wood in the tank

Great! Thanks for the info Bill. No way i can get my tanks that cool though. everything else is easy enough to get to.

Jeff

 

[dw1305]

Hi all,

Darrell, Mysis?.Peas? Natural foods?.

Yes good point definitely not very natural, and as you say neither are the earthworms, grindalworms and BBS that we feed. You could go even further and out of all the live food I feed (including some strange items like mayfly nymphs and red cherry shrimps), it is probably only mosquito larvae, (including "blood worms", but not "glass worms") and Ostracods and Copepods (from the Crustaceans) that are really natural food for dwarf cichlids.

I used the Mysis (or Krill & "Shell-on" Prawns) as an example of a basic foodstuff, as they are easily available Crustaceans that are analogous to the Macrobrachium shrimps and other Arthropods available in the wild. The peas again are just some vegetable matter and low protein "filler", it possibly doesn't do any good, but it certainly isn't harmful.

BillC wrote

.... are also 4 fish in the tank with so much moss you are lucky if you see two at a time........I've learned the the least we do other than provide decent water and feed them they take care of the rest.....

he is a man after my own heart, I'm a great believer too that you can never have too much moss or do too little "fiddling" with the aquarium.

cheers Darrel

 

[discusone]

a couple of shots

Playing with my new micro lens,so here are a few shots of my dimidiatus.

The top photo i am assuming is the male,second the female?The second photo,is the only other one that can hang out with the fish in the top photo with out being chased througout the tank.Comments are welcome,please.

 

[aquaticclarity]

Yep, male in the first photo and female below.

Now you just need to fatten up that girl a bunch!