Pat's Wilds Journal

[Second Hand Pat]

OK, here's a video of the N. reds. It's not great, the light is too dim. It does show the "pair" pushing fish out of their corner and also pushing each other. Forgive the poops from the geos. Messy little suckers. The geos are carrying pieces of red wigglers in their months. Looks like cigars.

http://s925.photobucket.com/albums/a...t=P3090038.mp4

[Second Hand Pat]

I'm will be away this weekend and the fishes got their last meal this morning until Sunday. WC tonight, vacuum in the morning and done until Sunday...repeat.

[vera]

what a delightful sight Pat !these two in the right corner do look protective of the spot , could it be a pair ?
i guess the dress ir ready to hit the spot light

[Second Hand Pat]

That's cool Vera, thanks for checking and confirming my observations.

Got the shoes so ready to go party.

[vera]

Hooray!! have fun girl !! im looking forward to pics ..oh yeah , of fishes too lol

[Second Hand Pat]

You are too funny girl.

[NanDiscus]

Hey Pat!

Just like Vera, I'm also looking forward to see some pics, as my bandwidth does not allow me to watch vids. I know I'm missing a lot...

It may very well be that you have a probable pair there. The behaviour you describe perfectly matches my observations with the Xingús and thank goodness I have quite many of them by now. One of these observations is that fish lay eggs while you are away.

Nandi

[Second Hand Pat]

Nandi, sorry you can not see the video. Too funny if I came home to eggs. We see what happens but sounds like I managing to get things right somehow, but did not expect this quite so soon.

Pat

[Second Hand Pat]

So while I'm having fun with the N. reds in the disease section of the forum, my other wilds look wonderful. The group of four in the 75 seem to be a bit more cohesive as a group. I guess hunger provides a distraction to level the playing field.

Also John is holding off on shipping the tefes until I can get a handle on the issues with the N. reds in the 100.

[danidaveyfan]

Those look fantastic!!!!

[Second Hand Pat]

Those look fantastic!!!!

Thanks danidaveyfan, I posted my first wilds video of the uatuman blues and alenquers under the title "First Wilds Video" if you would like to check it out.

Hopefully in a couple of days the N. Reds will graduate from the disease section to back here. I'm seriously considering removing the red head tapajos from the N. reds tank and placing them in their own tank. Main reasons for that is tank cleaniness and another is so the N. reds will not have to compete for food. The red heads are greedy little buggers so I overfeed so the N. reds can get some groceries.

Seems like I am seeing growth on the U. blues and alenquers who are in their own dedicated tank with no dither fish but do not feel like I am seeing any growth in the N. reds.

Also think I am going to make one of my weekly WC 80/90%.

[Second Hand Pat]

Tefes and one Nhamunda red arrived tomorrow. QT is up and ready. Only lacking bio.

[Teleman]

Great news, are you going to seed it from one of your other tanks? 75 gal maybe? cant wait to get a look at those babies, I am sooooo jealous.
Ken

[Second Hand Pat]

Hey Ken, the sponge for the AC 110 is in the sump of the 75. The AC 110 (with sponge) was on the QT tank when the U. blues and alenquers were in it and I moved the AC 110 sponge over to help seed the 75 bio when I moved the fish over from the QT.

[Second Hand Pat]

Here's a picture of the larger alenquer. This one is always to the opposite side for the smaller alenquer and is always hard to get it's pic. Believe this one will be a nice fish in time. Also Teleman is coming over tomorrow. Nice to meet a local discus person.