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Finally added the fish to my newish 125. My son loves the tank!

Nice! The fish will like the room.

Here is a quick video of the tank with some of my juvenile grow-outs..... please keep the sound off, as both my wife and dog make some guest narrations

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video captured on my droid phone, so I apologize in advance for any squinting that you have to do.

Thanks for sharing the video. Awesome tank!

Looking good!

The bifasciatum are coloring up nice. You have a pretty interesting mix. I like how you also have some the smaller/medium types of cichlids in the mix with the larger, like the firemouth and salvini. I just got a firemouth for my 210g. I did not want to have all the fish be big bruisers.

Thanks you two! I usually have pretty interesting mixes as I get bored easily and am limited on the number of tanks my wife will let me keep.....haha.

I have always had this problem of buying multiple species and keeping the ones with the personalities I like the best. In the long run, I will only keep a couple of these fish in this tank when they grow up a bit. Right now, that severum is the top dog (but also very easy going) which keeps the tank peaceful. I am guessing by summertime, a few of these fish will be up for sale or trade or free.

lloyd378 wrote:I have always had this problem of buying multiple species and keeping the ones with the personalities I like the best. In the long run, I will only keep a couple of these fish in this tank when they grow up a bit. Right now, that severum is the top dog (but also very easy going) which keeps the tank peaceful. I am guessing by summertime, a few of these fish will be up for sale or trade or free.

I can relate to this. I have BIG FISH syndrome, so I'll grow them up as long as i possibly can then re home them due to size or aggression. On a whim i purchased a 2 inch Columbian Pike (I love pike cichlids). Will need to find a home in the near future im sure....

lloyd378 wrote:am limited on the number of tanks my wife will let me keep.....haha.

Maybe we should start a support group!

DMD123 wrote:

lloyd378 wrote:am limited on the number of tanks my wife will let me keep.....haha.

Maybe we should start a support group!

I have already been threatened with enrollment

Really diggin that mix there. Some CA's, SA's and you have managed to make it work! Right on

thanks addicted! Yes, they are a fun mix. they swim up to glass as soon as anyone enters the room, which makes them popular with my friends too.

I just took a pic of my newer festae to update my avatar.... thanks addicted2CA! also uploaded a new video with my tank being peacefulish now that the firemouth and salvini have been removed (no more fin nippers so my fish should have great fins again in no time at all)

Here is a link if you wish to see:
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videoed on my droid...




Names:
biggest isletas= bull, smaller isletas= red, severum=chachee, cuban= castro, rtm= la tigra, festae= no name until sexed.... bifas, and zonatus, and jewels also have no names yet

I just realized that my phone was set to 3 megapixels, so I adjusted it up to 7 i think and reshot the video.

I hope this one is better!

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wow dude he/she looks amazing. Better than what I saw in my tanks!

Very nice. That Isletas is starting look nice, really like the color in those Bifa's.

Addicted,
I know. The festae really colored up after its epic battle with the firemouth.

Madness,
the red isletas should look good, as they are from your fish, and I love them....

and
I need to thank dmd123 for the good coloring on the bifas. He picked them out, and then was kind enough to relocate them to me!

Thanks you two for the compliments.

I kept the largest dominant male but I gave up the one I considered the most colorful. That one looks really good. Mine is showing lots of yellow in the tail but I just wish the reds would pop more. I just need to be patient, these bifa will look pretty good when mature.

Here are two pictures of my bifas....
this was the second biggest
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this was the smallest
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Here is a picture of my HRP (honduran red point) or possibly just a convict hybrid....

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Here are a few more, getting blurry as the new year gets closer haha
RTM
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RTM
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RED ISLETAS
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ALBINO BRISTLENOSE
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Those Bifas are ridiculous for being young! well done sir. I would certainly have to say con/hrp hybrid. Looks to have the HRP finnage and normal con body. Either way super colorful. That isletas is looking good, hope he is as interactive with you as he was me.

Addicted2CAs wrote: That isletas is looking good, hope he is as interactive with you as he was me.

He is! he is always the first to come to the glass when I enter the room, and he is always photo bombing all of the pictures I try to take of the other fish. That's kinda why I settled on the name "Bull" for him, because he loves using his size to bull over the other fish to get as close to me as he possibly can. And he does it every time without even having to open his mouth

haha! perfect. I will more than likely get another for those reasons if I can acquire one at a decent size from madness's stock.

He grew incredibly fast too, I want to say 1"-1.5" a month easy. Then again I feed really well and do a crazy amount of WC's.

It's been a couple of months, and my fish in the 125 have grown from the "grow-outs" stage, to the teenage stage.....but they are all still getting along (as much as that is possible). here is a quick video update for everyone who I got these fish from ;-)

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Looking good!

Love the Bifa's and the Isletas.

I am loving all of them (hence the overcrowdedness). guess it's time to win the lottery so that I can have a fish room too! Thanks guys.

it's been almost three months since my last update on this tank..... i had to wait to make sure I took complete care of the poor water quality issue  the tank faced last month.  the fish are all doing well and im back at my regular wc schedule.  the smallest three in the video will be moving out of this tank soon. i just put them in here so that they could fade in peace.  I hope you enjoy it.

From the previous video, i should mention that the only fish still in this tank are the red isletas, the midas (which is now orange with the black on his forehead, and the red devil (the creamy orange colored one w/o the hump)....

Looking good. Still cant believe how the midas looks compared to mine. Same batch of fish and I kept the dominant male. Mine still rocks the juvie coloration. I will say the little guy is very mild. Yours looked pretty easy going compared to some of the other fish.

The smallest one is starting to fade now too.... I'm fish sitting it in my garage

That male Isletas is a stud, he looks just like dad. AWESOME!!!!!!

And with how nice his momma looks, he may even bypass his dad in the looks department