First, update on the pothos. It's doing very well. Overall there's only been about 5% melt after 3 weeks. Starting to get sprouts underwater. The first month tells you what your success will be. Another big advantage of pothos besides nitrate absorption is odor control. Usually there's a certain 'swampy" scent around the tanks that gets pretty raunchy when old water is being pumped out. The 225 would stink to the roof when it was time for a change.There is absolutely no odor now in any of the tanks even during water changes. I've got more neon pothos on the way and some hornwort I've bid on Ebay, a huge bunch of it. I've had virtually zero melt in the 225 and no melt from the neon pothos at all.
I need to make a movie vid of these fish of mine. They are a blast. Yesterday it's buisness as usual in cichlid city....hours of order mixed with a minute or two of chaos in spurts. Buddy, the once picked on smallest hrp brother is now taking it to his hulking siblings. He goes after Hulk when Hulk comes out in the open. He goes after Tank too, but not as much. Bruce is the one he gets mixed results with but it's a major change all around. Red rainbow Salt is neutral but will give an assist with chasing as needed.
So it got really wild. My parrot Boss has become more interactive in the last year, coming up to greet and even following my hand a little. He's never been a finger chaser like the other parrots. He's still my most independent fish but not nearly as aloof. He even swims to the top now and occasionally glass surfs as I approach. But he still likes mixing it up as tank enforcer the best, going out of his way to chase the huge males.
So Brick the thick is hovering over his pit. The hrp brothers are squabbling and chasing in circles. Boss is at the front glass watching me sweep the floor. Tank and Hulk try cornering Buddy behind Brick.
Boss does a little head tllt like he sees out the corner of his eye. He then shoots across the tank and swims under the oscar to get involved in the skirmish. Tank got tagged first, followed by Hulk. Buddy then pairs with Boss and they run his brothers back into the plants.
Meanwhile big Red just kept ignoring everything like "y'all go at it. I'm out."
Later Brick got challenged by Hulk who apparently didn't like the Oscar being so close to his area. The hrp juked, shook his tail and did a shimmy shake. Brick just kept swimming at him slowly with the maw open. Hulk did a 90 degree turn and darted into the plants. Said it before and I'll say it again: Honduran Redpoints make terrible goons.
Speaking of Brick he's doing another color shift. His melanin is increasing making him look pretty dark except on his sides. Like he's rolled in charcoal or something. Weird!
I need to make a movie vid of these fish of mine. They are a blast. Yesterday it's buisness as usual in cichlid city....hours of order mixed with a minute or two of chaos in spurts. Buddy, the once picked on smallest hrp brother is now taking it to his hulking siblings. He goes after Hulk when Hulk comes out in the open. He goes after Tank too, but not as much. Bruce is the one he gets mixed results with but it's a major change all around. Red rainbow Salt is neutral but will give an assist with chasing as needed.
So it got really wild. My parrot Boss has become more interactive in the last year, coming up to greet and even following my hand a little. He's never been a finger chaser like the other parrots. He's still my most independent fish but not nearly as aloof. He even swims to the top now and occasionally glass surfs as I approach. But he still likes mixing it up as tank enforcer the best, going out of his way to chase the huge males.
So Brick the thick is hovering over his pit. The hrp brothers are squabbling and chasing in circles. Boss is at the front glass watching me sweep the floor. Tank and Hulk try cornering Buddy behind Brick.
Boss does a little head tllt like he sees out the corner of his eye. He then shoots across the tank and swims under the oscar to get involved in the skirmish. Tank got tagged first, followed by Hulk. Buddy then pairs with Boss and they run his brothers back into the plants.
Meanwhile big Red just kept ignoring everything like "y'all go at it. I'm out."
Later Brick got challenged by Hulk who apparently didn't like the Oscar being so close to his area. The hrp juked, shook his tail and did a shimmy shake. Brick just kept swimming at him slowly with the maw open. Hulk did a 90 degree turn and darted into the plants. Said it before and I'll say it again: Honduran Redpoints make terrible goons.
Speaking of Brick he's doing another color shift. His melanin is increasing making him look pretty dark except on his sides. Like he's rolled in charcoal or something. Weird!
