Hey all, I love these guys and gals. I've kept them before but do to some tank troubles was unable to keep them. So I have a uncle in the cattle buisness and ownes a ranch in south Texas. Well he has 10 freashwater stock pounds. Where the pounds are fed by under ground springs. So he asked me a couple years back if I thought they'd live and bred in there.The ponds stay at 79oF year round so I knew that was good and the PH and Gh of the water is perfect for them. I told him all we had to do was just try it and see. Tha was 3yrs ago. Well I went down there this past month and seen frist hand that it did work. I got 3 out of there 22'' to 27'' in size. i know I even seen one at the surface that was a easy 3 foot in size. Yes I know " BULL CRAP." LOL I'm going back down there in the spring and he wants to drain the pounds down to see just how many there is in there and the size.
I have no clue as to what speices we put inthe ponds but I beleave them to be senegal,endli endli. I remenber the one I got off Aquabid and payed a nie price for a pr. of them. I know that it started with a E and that was 2yrs ago. Anyway here's the largest one i brought home for the Oscar tank a month back. I want to say it's a senegal. But I'm not sure. If we drain the pond and find that it worked like he hoped. He's going to add a few differnt spices and a couple of the harder to get ones this summer. So here's to keeping our fingers crossed. On the large one I seen . I know things always look larger then what they are. Like the old saying I caought a fish this big. LOL it's always biger the secound and even thrid time you tell the storie right? LOLhere's the larger one i got home. I hve 5 more that's just under 3''. So we knw that the little project worked. So maybe in another yr we can be selling some of the hard to get ones cheap. Fingers crossed.
CDM ?4U I don't know if I'm seeing this right or not but. Your lighten on your picture is it coming from the bottom of the tank? I love your colloction and hopfully mine will be growing really soon. As i have placed a bid on one on Aquabid today to help and jump start it.
I have no clue as to what speices we put inthe ponds but I beleave them to be senegal,endli endli. I remenber the one I got off Aquabid and payed a nie price for a pr. of them. I know that it started with a E and that was 2yrs ago. Anyway here's the largest one i brought home for the Oscar tank a month back. I want to say it's a senegal. But I'm not sure. If we drain the pond and find that it worked like he hoped. He's going to add a few differnt spices and a couple of the harder to get ones this summer. So here's to keeping our fingers crossed. On the large one I seen . I know things always look larger then what they are. Like the old saying I caought a fish this big. LOL it's always biger the secound and even thrid time you tell the storie right? LOLhere's the larger one i got home. I hve 5 more that's just under 3''. So we knw that the little project worked. So maybe in another yr we can be selling some of the hard to get ones cheap. Fingers crossed.
CDM ?4U I don't know if I'm seeing this right or not but. Your lighten on your picture is it coming from the bottom of the tank? I love your colloction and hopfully mine will be growing really soon. As i have placed a bid on one on Aquabid today to help and jump start it.
