Nhamunda Blue Moon & Blue Face Heckels from Hudson

[sumit]

Hi illuminae, thank you for the very detailed response. I will definitely seek to pick up the Royal after your feedback. I am looking at a group of 4/5 Curuai xlg. I will also pick up the blue moon. How did you find the Unini blue face? Also found a couple of Curuai medium pic very impressive.

I will post a pic on the fishes once they reach and acclamatise.

[sumit]

Illuminae, can you also advice how much water change you are doing every time if you are doing 3 times a week. Thanks

[illumnae]

Hi Sumit, I change about 200-250 litres each time I do a water change. That's my limit as I only have a storage barrel that size for my RO water. The tank is 6' x 2'4" x 2'4" with a 4' x 2' x 2' sump underneath.

The Unini are very interesting heckels! I have never seen heckels so blue, and I always thought the Nhamundas are the most blue of all the heckels. They also arrived some with full blue gill plates, unlike the Nhamunda blue face - none of the Nhamunda blue face arrived with full blue, and none of them now have developed full blue. However, my personal preference is still for Nhamundas as I like the fusing of the blue on the bodies

The Curuai medium semi royals were what I was trying to convince my father in law to get. In particular, at least one of them is definitely on its way to developing into a full royal. Unfortunately, my father in law decided to stick with his altums instead and passed on them. His loss is someone else's gain I guess.

Looking forward to your pictures!

[illumnae]

After a long hiatus, this is what the tank looks like now. I've changed the livestock quite a bit:

[DiscusLoverJeff]

Very nice looking wilds. Great color and shape. the tank looks so peaceful. Nice job!

[Second Hand Pat]

Wow illumnae, tank looks great. Could you give more detail on the tank mates.

[laupao]

very nice illumnae, they all look very happy in there

makes me think about getting wilds some day.

[Poco]

Beautiful tank setup and fish. Good job!

[illumnae]

Very nice looking wilds. Great color and shape. the tank looks so peaceful. Nice job!

Beautiful tank setup and fish. Good job!

Thanks! I'm loving it I'm really happy I put the background in - it makes the tank so much nicer!

very nice illumnae, they all look very happy in there

makes me think about getting wilds some day.

You should! I started on wilds 4 years back, and there's no turning back for me. Tons more fun than keeping domestics.

Wow illumnae, tank looks great. Could you give more detail on the tank mates.

Thanks Pat! This is a rather overstocked tank. The filtration on this tank is a 4ft sump filled to the brim with quality sintered glass though, so the filtration is more than adequate to handle the bioload. I do 3x 50% water changes each week using RO-tap mix of about 85% RO, 15% tap (because my RO barrel is only so big, so I need to top up tap to get enough volume to do a 50% wc...it would be a 30% wc otherwise)

11x Symphysodon discus "Nhamunda"
11x Pterophyllum scalare "Manacapuru"
4x Mesonauta insignis
15x Mikrogeophagus ramirezi
18x Corydoras duplicareus "Santa Isabel"
2x Corydoras sp. "C121"
3x Dekeyseria sp. "L52"

All wildcaught fishes

[plecocicho]

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