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I don't care how great someone is, if they act like that I wouldn't hire them to clean my toilet.

If it is a 20g then imo it's too small for a sanchezi. I remember him saying what the size was earlier but didn't understand it with the wide and deep so went with 45g like thread title said. lol Good catch if so. :good:

Ok great. :good: Don't take offense about me asking why you were buying it. None was intended and it's a standard reply from me. It might not be until Monday until you hear back from them. Hope you get us pics when you get him and look forward to seeing you around. Also, if you have...

OK, did a search for you. If this is the correct african pike you're looking for... http://www.riverwonders.com/product_info.p...984b8c3254f3b46 http://www.practicalfishkeeping.co.uk/pfk/...p?article_id=35

Yea, I've never understood the whole 3 second memory thing. I've never believed it either. There's many things we can all name that our fish do that they wouldn't be able to if they had such a short memory... Go to the same exact spot daily for their food. Recognizing individual people that...

In the summer I have my powerheads sitting just ander the waterline to create more oxygen and in the winter halfway down the water column to create current. At both times I just have them suction cupped to the glass by themselves.

Depends on what you are looking for in a fish. Oscars aren't my thing right now but I can see why people have them. They have better personality than any other fish I've ever had. They aren't predators and I was assuming that's what you were looking for so if you mean as far as a predator fish...

:lol: Yea, I bet. At one time I had 2 tanks across the room from each other. One had a S. rhombeus in it and the other a S. sanchezi in it. They would often flare at each other if the other was looking right at them. Then they'd circle real fast and flare again. It was comical at times. It...

Most likely, depending on the glare from the aquarium. They can definitely see movement and shapes from 8ft away.

Nuice, you won't find them in your LFS in most cases, you'l have to buy them online. I'm not sure where you're located but if you live in the US and in a legal state you can have them shipped from Shark Aquarium and Aquascape Online I buy all mine from and there and can vouch for both of...

No to both.

Not sure but genetics plays a large part of it. When fish are stunted and get better care later on some fish do better than others. Even when healthy some fish just grow faster than others to certain sizes. You seem to be doing everything right, good filtration, good husbandry skills and a...

Not that much money is relative. To me, $100 for a fish isn't that much but to others $15 is too much. Not trying to be nitpicky but hard to give good advice not knowing. If you don't want to spend much money for the fish then red belly's would probably be your best choice but you'd have to...

How much are you willing to spend? Are you ok with a solo fish for life in a tank? With Serra's you can't add anything else to their tank.

Kind of hard to tell. With cichlids the female and male will liplock thought to be the female making the male prove he is strong enough to be of good genes. The moving of rocks to make a bare spot is common in breeding but also Oscars like to rearrange their tanks anyways. The "male" oscar...

Any possible way to move up to a 29g? You could get a sanchezi in there for life. That's the meanest fish you can get in that small of a tank.

I wasn't going to post to you anymore but I now feel I should after this post. I want to say thank you for apologizing for the name calling and no hard feelings then. Things happen and it's also hard to tell the sincerity in posts when it comes to text. Thank you very much. Looking back on...

:good: Nice class. So you expect him to get a 6 foot or 8 foot tank and put those fish in and was giving him advice on that? yea riiiiight. I was only posting, not because I care what you think or believe, but because I don't want people that are newer to the hobby and see your post about...

If that's the case then just comment on the 10g tank then. Nowhere did he say for HIS tank. And you weren't posting for his tank only unless you honestly think he's going to put 2 guppies in a 6 foot long tank? Maybe you should pay attention to what you write. I did read his profile and I saw...

I disagree. There's no way large cichlids and piranhas can live a healthy life with just a 30% water change every month.

I agree with you. It definitely looks like a Uro to me. I don't see the Y-bands connecting like juanvaldez said and the eye spot is way too big to be a festae, imo.

Good job taking my post way out of context. I was giving you a compliment and you just think I was being a sarcastic. Oh well w/e. Per the rhom. it takes 12 years for a rhom to get anywhere near close to large enough towrds full size so yes, I do believe in that time he will learn a piranha's...

What size tank? (out of curiosity only) What Africans are they? With only 3 "Africans" I'm inclined to say they are Mbuna? If so having so few you'll notice aggression more than if you stocked more heavily. This is typical aggression with them and i agree with dthoffsett. (Of course I do, he's...

I like it that you dissuade people from getting a piranha. I'm not being sarcastic but serious. Piranha's are next to goldfish as the most mistreated fish in the hobby so I do my best when replying in most threads to make them not want one in my first replies in general. The irritan and...

I've had 70-100 rbp's at one time or another and I have to agree with JenCliBee. Even if she were wrong it wouldn't matter how rooted or secure the plants were like you said. Piranhas aren't like cichlids where they grab and pull, they bite and clip the plants off. Both natural plants and...

No problem at all and don't apologize for going a different route. I assume that's why you started the thread, to get opinions on whether you should get a piranha or not. You decided not to after taking all the replies into account which is what a responsible fishkeeper would do. Like i said...

Red Belly piranha (Pygocentrus nattereri) usually get to 10-11" in aquariums. Of course, there are exceptions both larger and smaller but in general. If healthy they'll get 7-8" the first year. I agree with the fact that a 55g is too small even for one. I would suggest a minimum of 75g for 1-3...

You'll most likely be disappointed in piranhas if you buy them for their ability to strip flesh in seconds. Especially Red Belly's. They are one of the most scared and timid fish there are. For a tank that small if you should choose a piranha I would suggest a Serrasalmus sanchezi. They can be...

If your water params are ok (ou never posted them so not sure) and you say that he does swim with the other Oscar, I would say initially it seems with his small size that he could just be scared or shy. Did you just recently get him within the past few days? I know you don't want to hear it...

Also, if you could tell us what you're feeding, tankmates, how long you've had him, what size is he in correlation to the other fish. How does he act when it's not feeding time?

lol I hear ya. It's great that you are taking your time doing this though. Much respect for that. BTW, how big is your oscar? You'll have this problem with every Flowerhorn you try to add, I was just hesitant because the guy said he was sure it would be a good fit. That made me wonder if he...

Good call. I wasn't trying to sound too harsh and I could definitely be wrong but it sounded to me like a guy telling you what you want to hear and then you get it home and all heck breaks loose. I know how badly you want a flowerhorn so I just wanted to be honest.

I think he's full of it if he knows it will go in with your Oscar ok. Noone can possibly know until you try it. Fish change once you move them from one tank to another and add other fish into the equation. Either way gratz. Wouldn't you want to get a baby one though and let it grow out and be...

Too bad you couldn't turn it sideways and use it. :P

Green Spotted Puffers are brackish water fish normally sold as freshwater fish. I hope the lfs told you that or you were aware of it if they didn't. I don't know a lot about them other than that but here's a link that can give you a head start on them until you get other replies...

If by Jewel cichlids you mean the african cichlids (H. bimaculatus) you'll want to get them out asap. They are mean as all get out and will cause stress or kill the others in there.

I agree, exactly my point I was trying to make. I am one that doesn't agree that you just do wc's and all is fine and dandy when it comes to begginners in the hobby. Like I said before, if someone doesn't know how a fish is supposed to act when it's healthy they most likely won't know how it...

If my previous experience with Flowerhorns means anything you'll most likely have a solitary fish. I couldn't ever get one that would get along with anything else but I've heard of quite a few who have had no problems so here's hoping you get one of the latter. Per the pics, I doubt it...

I tend to agree with you but what about if someone was new to the hobby or that certain type of fish? Someone getting Mbuna the first time will no doubt freak and think ich, skin flukes or some other disease when they start flicking all the time on rocks. It's normal behaviour but unless...

My S. rhombeus will pretty much ignore everyone and stay still in his normal cocky way if we go by but if my dog does he goes ballistic for some reason. Any other time he knows exactly where the glass is but he turns stupid and forgets the glass is there or something and keeps smashing into it...