Stoped in to my lfs and saw this guy had to get him
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Cute! Love flagtails... What size is he and most importantly, does he have a name?
Also may I ask what the cichlid to the left of him in the last pic is?
Well he is a good 10 inch and he doesn't have a name yet. The cichlid is a Aequidens diadema and his name is big red because of his big red eyesCute! Love flagtails... What size is he and most importantly, does he have a name?
Also may I ask what the cichlid to the left of him in the last pic is?
Nice. I love ft’s. I have a 14” named dinner similar price. But had to drive 4 hrs away from home to get it.
Cool have a pic. Yeah the guy is 5 min down the road and is always gets random stuff people bring in
It’s hard to see from the pic but his tail has red, yellow, and orange stripes. The colour is becoming more defined as he is eating mostly nls pellets now, as a posed to tetra cichlid pellets, that the store I picked him up at were feeding. I have a feeling he may be stunted, but I’m happy to have him. He thinks hes a tinfoil barb, part of the pack lol.
Yours looks nice and healthy, good colour to it. Also slightly more rounded, my unprofessional guess would be a female. Supposedly males are longer and more slender and females are more rounded.
I looked for any resources I could to find out about them when I first started to get into them but not sure how reliable most of it is. I still have no idea what max size is.
Make sure you have a secure lid, they spook super easy and are jumpers. One thing I read as they will swim up stream and jump up rapids while in spawning season similar to salmon. I found this to be true when I tried to unbox this guy and it jumped from the box 2-3’ out. Scared the daylights out of me.
I looked for any resources I could to find out about them when I first started to get into them but not sure how reliable most of it is. I still have no idea what max size is.
Make sure you have a secure lid, they spook super easy and are jumpers. One thing I read as they will swim up stream and jump up rapids while in spawning season similar to salmon. I found this to be true when I tried to unbox this guy and it jumped from the box 2-3’ out. Scared the daylights out of me.
