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Update: I think my Green Terror may be a male... 
I've always read about females being 'a drab olive green' and mine has never been drab, always been very colourful. Recently, she/he has got truly stunning in colouration - every part of the fish is covered in irredescent colours. She/he has a real metallic sheen and their fins are very colourful. The dorsal fin, which always been rounded has started to sharpen a bit, and their forehead seems to be getting bigger. Also there is a lot of orange fringing on the tail, whereas females apparently have a thinner fringe. It is a waiting game as she/he is still only 2.5" not including the tail, so could still go either way. I could have an exceptional female, or a beautiful male.
It doesn't matter whether it turns out male or female really, careful consideration to stocking was always going to have to happen. They are getting on fine with Boris, my oscar, so that's all that matters now.
Boris is hilarious. He has begging down to a fine art, proper 'baby-bird-like' mouth gaping, wagging his tail and body when I come up to the glass. He is SUCH a greedy fish, I've never seen anything like it
I feed the fish a mixture of food, and he will typically have a couple of Hikari cichlid gold pellets, some Dorimin cichlid pellets and a few mouthfuls of an algae wafer. He's not too keen on the tropical microwafers though. I gave them some chopped prawn the other night. He came up straight away, took it from my fingers, then sat about trying to eat it It was far too big for him to eat at once, but he was detirmend not to relinquish it. Instead of doing as most fish do and grabbing it, eating a bit, spit out, grab again, eat a bit etc. He holds it in his mouth, even when he can't close it. He goes in the corner while he eats it, then when finished is straight away back to the surface begging for more He is a messy devil, but a fabulous fish. I can see why people love oscars 
He's growing really well 
So anyway, I am now considering a single convict and a red tail shark, with my L075 on the bottom. Would he be OK, as he's still quite small? No one ever bothers him.
I've always read about females being 'a drab olive green' and mine has never been drab, always been very colourful. Recently, she/he has got truly stunning in colouration - every part of the fish is covered in irredescent colours. She/he has a real metallic sheen and their fins are very colourful. The dorsal fin, which always been rounded has started to sharpen a bit, and their forehead seems to be getting bigger. Also there is a lot of orange fringing on the tail, whereas females apparently have a thinner fringe. It is a waiting game as she/he is still only 2.5" not including the tail, so could still go either way. I could have an exceptional female, or a beautiful male.It doesn't matter whether it turns out male or female really, careful consideration to stocking was always going to have to happen. They are getting on fine with Boris, my oscar, so that's all that matters now.
Boris is hilarious. He has begging down to a fine art, proper 'baby-bird-like' mouth gaping, wagging his tail and body when I come up to the glass. He is SUCH a greedy fish, I've never seen anything like it
I feed the fish a mixture of food, and he will typically have a couple of Hikari cichlid gold pellets, some Dorimin cichlid pellets and a few mouthfuls of an algae wafer. He's not too keen on the tropical microwafers though. I gave them some chopped prawn the other night. He came up straight away, took it from my fingers, then sat about trying to eat it It was far too big for him to eat at once, but he was detirmend not to relinquish it. Instead of doing as most fish do and grabbing it, eating a bit, spit out, grab again, eat a bit etc. He holds it in his mouth, even when he can't close it. He goes in the corner while he eats it, then when finished is straight away back to the surface begging for more He is a messy devil, but a fabulous fish. I can see why people love oscars He's growing really well So anyway, I am now considering a single convict and a red tail shark, with my L075 on the bottom. Would he be OK, as he's still quite small? No one ever bothers him.
hello again, just thought i would add something, i went to my LFS today to get some HITH treatment but thought i would say about the pictus catfish i seen on sell, it said on the label they get to about 12cm in captivity! now i dont know if the one i had maybe a different strain of the pictus but mine got very big very quick, these looked exactly the same only smaller most noticebly by the tiger markings and full body length whiskers so ignore my warning if it was these smaller type you were after
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Hi, I think they are the same type of pictus. Maybe they do grow big quickly, when they are in a big tank. I am still undecided what to go for!
Yay! haha, I've ordered an ND 5ft tank too, 2 weeks ago.. so I better get mine before you 
Mine is 60 x 18 x 24 mind.. It'll be good if we get them at the same time for the sake of journals, it'd probably be a case of how to (your tank) and not to (my tank) set up an aquarium 
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Mine is 60 x 18 x 24 mind.. It'll be good if we get them at the same time for the sake of journals, it'd probably be a case of how to (your tank) and not to (my tank) set up an aquarium haha.
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Yay! haha, I've ordered an ND 5ft tank too, 2 weeks ago.. so I better get mine before you
Hehe I should imagine you will get yours before me! Will definitely keep an eye out for your journal
I've been thinking about yellow labs... I know they are African, but have heard they can work with GTs.... My water is pretty hard at ph7.5.... Not sure whether they'd get big enough to not end up as dinner for Boris though...
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Some pics of my GT and Oscar taken tonight... Rubbish quality, can't seem to capture their true colours and poor Boris has a split in his tail 
It's amazing the difference in him in just ONE month of owning him... Staggering how much oscars change and grow...
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/321302-green-terror-and-oscar-one-month-on/
It's amazing the difference in him in just ONE month of owning him... Staggering how much oscars change and grow...http
/www.fishforums.net/index.php?/topic/321302-green-terror-and-oscar-one-month-on/Similar threads
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