snowflake311
Fish nerd
As some of you know I rescued some uaru that were in bad shape fin rot HITH. I have had them for 2 days now. They are doing better. No longer showing signs of stress fins are starting heal.
They were in a 90 gal tank I was thinking of buying. The tank was over filtered but I'm sure they were dirty one filter was not flowing well. There was a 7 inch common pleco some kind of African catfish 1 tiger barb and the 3 fish I saved. Two 5" uaru and a 3" African buffalo head cichlid. The uaru did not even fight when I caught them. They were so stressed out and hung at the surface. I was shocked at how bad the hith was and the ripped fins. I asked do they nip eachother because they look like they had been fighting. The lady sad no. These people really did not care a out these awesome fish.
They told me there is a female buffalo head in here some place I said it might be dead they said no it just hides. As I was trying to catch the fish I moved a decoration and half of a fish floats to the top there was the female at this point I did not know what to say so I kept my mouth shut because I wanted to go off. They saidthats weird I just saw berthed other day it had been dead for a week or more.
So I got the fish home safe The buffalo head when right in the 55gal community. The uaru are in a 20 gal to heal. It's easy to do Daily wc on a 20 gal. Also my other cichlids might stress the uaru out. They are eatting well they snack on java moss I feed them veggie flakes cichlid pellets krill and they go crazy for frozen bloodworms. They are not as shy around me now. The first day if I looked at them they would hide.
I try and keep the temp at 80-82 f but have been dealing with heater problems I hope it's fixed now. They are more active when warm. These are fun fish they are always together it's cute. They are growing on me. They are smart fish remind me of an Oscar that likes to school.
So I will post more photo once they start to heal.
Here they are today going nuts for bloodworms.
here is the one with a dent in his head from what I don't know.
here is the other.
eatting bloodworms together.
Here is the poor buffalo head. He's a really cool fish.
So those. Are my rescue fish. We will see how they turn out.
They were in a 90 gal tank I was thinking of buying. The tank was over filtered but I'm sure they were dirty one filter was not flowing well. There was a 7 inch common pleco some kind of African catfish 1 tiger barb and the 3 fish I saved. Two 5" uaru and a 3" African buffalo head cichlid. The uaru did not even fight when I caught them. They were so stressed out and hung at the surface. I was shocked at how bad the hith was and the ripped fins. I asked do they nip eachother because they look like they had been fighting. The lady sad no. These people really did not care a out these awesome fish.
They told me there is a female buffalo head in here some place I said it might be dead they said no it just hides. As I was trying to catch the fish I moved a decoration and half of a fish floats to the top there was the female at this point I did not know what to say so I kept my mouth shut because I wanted to go off. They saidthats weird I just saw berthed other day it had been dead for a week or more.
So I got the fish home safe The buffalo head when right in the 55gal community. The uaru are in a 20 gal to heal. It's easy to do Daily wc on a 20 gal. Also my other cichlids might stress the uaru out. They are eatting well they snack on java moss I feed them veggie flakes cichlid pellets krill and they go crazy for frozen bloodworms. They are not as shy around me now. The first day if I looked at them they would hide.
I try and keep the temp at 80-82 f but have been dealing with heater problems I hope it's fixed now. They are more active when warm. These are fun fish they are always together it's cute. They are growing on me. They are smart fish remind me of an Oscar that likes to school.
So I will post more photo once they start to heal.
Here they are today going nuts for bloodworms.
here is the one with a dent in his head from what I don't know.
here is the other.
eatting bloodworms together.
Here is the poor buffalo head. He's a really cool fish.
So those. Are my rescue fish. We will see how they turn out.
. I head a loud crack and then splash. I ran over and saw my brand new heater I got last night had blown up . The poor fish were so freaked they are fine besides that. I did a big water change and put my spare heater in. I was so mad. 
