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Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Sad day Tue Nov 11, 2008 11:26 am | |
| I had something tragic happen to me lastnight. I had a few friends over to play the new Gears of war 2 for XBox 360. Before we started playing one of my friends was looking at my tanks and was in awe by how beautiful my discus are. I was in the kitchen making a PB&J when my friend yelled to me and said that one of my fish was dead! I came running in to the room thinking that it was one of my discus! My friend shaun pointed to the oscar tank and thats when I found my red tiger oscar floating on the bottom of the tank with its bottom jaw ripped off and its fins shredded I thought that my oscars were going to breed but I guess the other oscar had a diffrent plan. :angspmd: I called my LFS this morning and asked for one of there employees by name. I talked to the guy for 2 minutes before he said enthusiastically that he would take my oscar. He has a 300g tank with a couple of dats and some other bigger fish that I cant spell let alone pronounce. So tomorrow I say good bye to my oscar and take a breather from large CA/SA cichlids. | |
| | | Markm0723 Jack Dempsey Breeder
Posts : 382
Age : 64 Location : Mobile, AL Favorite Fish : Jack Dempsey
| Subject: Re: Sad day Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:03 pm | |
| I'm sorry to hear that Mike. It's always hard to lose a good fish, especially one that has as much personality as a big CA/SA cichlid does. You say you're going to take a break from the big CA/SAs for a while, have you decided what you are going to put in the tank yet?
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| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:12 pm | |
| I'm thinking africans that wont as big as oscars. Its a 72g | |
| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: Sad day Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:41 pm | |
| That would be the way to go. Keeping two Oscars in the same tank unless it is huge a lot of times a coin flip. A 72g will be suitable for a large amount of Africans! Sorry to here about your loss dude, that sucks! | |
| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Tue Nov 11, 2008 6:25 pm | |
| Thank you Paul. can you suggest any africans? | |
| | | saint_felony The Turtle Whisperer
Posts : 1930
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:00 am | |
| Damn that sucks. I wonder if the one wanted to breed and the other didn't. Whatever happened that blows. Anyway, I don't have nearly the experience in Africans as other people on here, but the kids have 4 sleeper cichlids (Nimbochromis livingstonii) that are really awesome. They play dead to nail feeder fish. Wikipedia InfoA tank that size you could get a nice aquatic turtle too. African Mud turtles are chock full of awesome. | |
| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 2:17 pm | |
| Thank you Saint. I have no Idea what happened I'm just PO that the one killed its mate. As for the turtle, I like them but I'm not into keeping turtles. I think if I was to ever keep turtles I'd bulid a pond and keep snapping turtles or I'd figure a way to keep the giant galapagos tortoise. | |
| | | Mostlycichlids Cichlid Specialist
Posts : 4566
Age : 44 Location : New Mexico USA Favorite Fish : Jaguar Cichlid
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:05 pm | |
| In a 72g you have lots of choices I would go to cichlid-forum and browse their profiles and see what you might like. You could do Peacocks or Haps or Mbuna or Victorian it is really up to you and what is available to you. See what you like and then see what is available then we can help stock it with what you like! | |
| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:57 pm | |
| I will do that. I'm liking the Christmas fulu but I think I'm going to go with something else. | |
| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 9:31 pm | |
| I took your advice and went on to cichlid-forum and this is what I found.
Cynotilapia sp. "Mbamba" (Lion's Cove) Sciaenochromis fryeri Copadichromis sp. "Kawanga" (Makonde) Dimidiochromis compressiceps Placidochromis sp. "Electra Mozambique" Taiwan Reef Aulonocara jacobfreibergi "Eureka" Aulonocara jacobfreibergi (Otter Pt.) Cynotilapia afra (Cobue) Labidochromis caeruleus (Kakusa) Labidochromis sp. "Mbamba" Labidochromis sp. "Perlmutt" Melanochromis baliodigma Melanochromis vermivorus Metriaclima greshakei Pseudotropheus crabro Pseudotropheus sp. "Elongatus Bee" | |
| | | Markm0723 Jack Dempsey Breeder
Posts : 382
Age : 64 Location : Mobile, AL Favorite Fish : Jack Dempsey
| Subject: Re: Sad day Wed Nov 12, 2008 10:01 pm | |
| You've got some really nice looking fish on that list. I would suggest choosing either a Hap/Peacock mix or an Mbuna mix. Overall Mbuna tend to be too boisterous for the Haps and Peacocks. I do keep Labidochromis caeruleus (Lion's Cove I) with my Haps and Peacocks, but they tend to be more mellow than most Mbuna. Good luck with the Africans. Mark | |
| | | Mike D DIY Guy
Posts : 1842
Age : 41 Location : Maine Humor : You can't offend me
| Subject: Re: Sad day Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:19 am | |
| Thank you mark. I think I might go with the Mbuna mix. | |
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