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#1 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 06:38 PM

Hi guys I've recently moved all my vics into breeder tanks and have changed my 7x2x2 into a tang tank I got all of them from Paul at morley aquarium (great shop, great people) and am absolutely stoked with the quality.
I've got 7 six bar Burundi frontosas( had 10 but lost 3 due to aggression from the alpha front in the past month) , 5 black calvus and 5 Caudopunctatus.
I was going to only have the calvus and fronts as they are similar in behaviour but I couldn't go past the caudos as I find them extremely interesting. So fingers crossed they will be ok together all of the fish range from 4 to 6 cm 1849d8d8e7a29d07574c7badd790fda6.jpg2196a01e04900b216319eeb130b9efdd.jpgfdb8923618c6bcff8ced4944fa8c495c.jpg71a75bcb449b45810ffa5a391b98e5be.jpg80bc77617a426218c78ee128965b83ba.jpg photos with my phone so not the best and look how empty my tank looks now :/ can't wait for them to grow

#2 Mattia

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 08:23 PM

Beautiful fish!
Put some Julidochromis in, they would be perfect in that biotope ;)

#3 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 08:35 PM

Thanks for the tip mattia :)

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 09:29 PM

looking really good.  I have some julies if you are after some, Julidochromis regain.  I can send you some pics if you want?


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#5 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 10:57 PM

looking really good.  I have some julies if you are after some, Julidochromis regain.  I can send you some pics if you want?

that would awesome if you would sell me some

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Posted 05 December 2016 - 11:04 PM

There we go.... power of social media :-)

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Posted 06 December 2016 - 07:07 AM

Amazing how far camera phones have come along - looking forward to seeing these getting bigger.

#8 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 07:44 PM

Took mattia tip and added a paired julidochromis regani which I bought from extend (Joel) thanks mate awesome quality and they have settled in nicely 40929b731d33709dbb7f4aaae95c793a.jpg here are some shots of the rest as I was just playing around with my phone bdfe8a0d980c7541f8140b46d605849a.jpg9e928b319b63105d9444a1719043711d.jpg4a3928e30df4559e8921926a54bd9d64.jpg0381009331a26ba7b801cd7b90ab7f82.jpg

#9 Hood

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 08:07 PM

Oh man. Nice. I miss my regani and caudopuncatis.
Young fronts are cool and are great to watch grow out. which can take a few yeas. Enjoy the journey my friend. :)

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#10 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 08:17 PM

Hahaha Ye it definitely gonna be a long interesting journey between the fronts and the calvus. I just need the Dom male to cool his jets he has killed 3 of the smaller ones already and I think one my have float as he is fighting to stay at the bottom

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 10:20 PM

Looking good.

#12 Hood

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 10:35 PM

Hahaha Ye it definitely gonna be a long interesting journey between the fronts and the calvus. I just need the Dom male to cool his jets he has killed 3 of the smaller ones already and I think one my have float as he is fighting to stay at the bottom


That's odd, I've never had a Dom male kill off any others in either my Burundi colony or my kigoma colony. In general I find fronts uber placid...well other than feeding time. Like just now when I got completely doused in water as they rushed up for food. Haha. Love my fronts. :)
Oh and float usually only comes about from feeding too much surface food in my opinion. And normally it just takes them to fart it out. Yep you heard me, you'll see the bubbles come from their bum and then they'll settle. Haha. Only way I have found to speed this along if worried about it was to treat the tank with something mild that causes the fish to expel waste. Something like prozy for flukes, it's mild but causes fish to expel waste and thus the air trapped in their guts. But this is only if I find the fish severely affected.
What are you feeding them?

Edited by Hood, 08 December 2016 - 10:36 PM.


#13 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 08 December 2016 - 10:51 PM

Just tropical spiruilina flakes and the once a week brine
I treated the tank with Epsom salts to expel his air bubble so hopefully it does ;) but if the male didn't kill them I wonder why they died ?

#14 Hood

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Posted 09 December 2016 - 06:16 AM

Not sure about why they died. Sorry. Just that aggression in my experience is pretty low in fronts. Epson salts is smart. Good call. As for food maybe try a small sinking pellet like 1mm nls as this will reduce air bubbles being gobbled up at feeding and getting stuck in the digestive tract. Keep up the good work. :) Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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#15 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 09 December 2016 - 06:29 AM

Thanks mate , it is annoying that I lost some but that is fish keeping for ya !! Prob could've been stress as I did some more research last night and I was doing 50% Wc weekly and everyone said that was too much for tangs as it can sometimes shock them so I will start doing 30% instead

#16 Hood

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Posted 09 December 2016 - 07:11 AM

If you do 25% bi-weekly you'll be spot on the money I reckon. Just make sure you always condition your water.

Yeah that's fish keeping. I try not to say outloud which are my favs cause for some reason every time I say that outloud something will go wrong with those fish the very next day. It hurts but you just gotta do your best and try to take peace of mind from that when things do go wrong. :)


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#17 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 29 December 2016 - 12:04 AM

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#18 Delapool

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Posted 29 December 2016 - 08:56 AM

Looking good! Nice shots. What sort of rocks you got in there?


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#19 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 29 December 2016 - 01:38 PM

Thanks mate they're just granite rocks from smiling rock in wangara

#20 Chopstick_mike

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Posted 04 February 2017 - 12:57 AM

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Edited by Chopstick_mike, 04 February 2017 - 12:58 AM.





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