Starting over... Hoga time

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Been a long road with my Pearsei but the big girl passed (16"). I had her a good 8 yrs plus and I figure she was likely at least a year and a half old when I got her so figuring she was about 10 when she passed.

So time for a new cichlid to raise out... Have decided to try my hand at some Hoga from a buddy of mine.

A few pics of the new journey... bad blurry pics, lol
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There are three Hoga total with the dominant one believed to be male. the other two is a guess but would say second male and a female. Aggression is very high amongst themselves and the dominant fish goes after some large balas in the tank but pays no attention to any of the bichir.

Interesting too that these Hoga show so much red. My buddy said that this batch originated from back East and seem to be much different than what was normally in my area.
Old post that dealt with the Hoga's that were circulation in WA state https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/late-night-hoga-tography.501686/#post-6009065
Much more yellow toned Hoga in my area.

Anyway just sharing the new project.
 

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Forrest's Hoga was a brute of a fish. fishman09 fishman09
 

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Been a while since fishman09 fishman09 has updated anything... wonder if he is still in the hobby. I believe kids came along, which can change our hobbies for sure.
 

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Yep, true that. Real life has away of changing ones priorities. I tagged him just to see if he still had a pulse. lol
 
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A little update.

About 3 1/2 weeks in the 300 gallon and it looks bad. The cichlids have got their little pecking order figured out and no real damage to each other but not so good for the tankmates. The large bala (12"+) is recovering from loosing a ton of scales and lots of tears in fins. The dominate hoga has now resorted to fin nipping the bichir. I panicked at first thinking I had a fin rot thing going with the bichir and then caught the hoga going at them. The fins are looking better now and are healing but the hoga still gets caught nipping. Its not quite as bad about it but apparently this will be a trouble fish. I am probably going to move the dominate hoga into a small holding tank and see if the other two do any better. The goal is to keep just one anyway. Looking for the one that can get along with tankmates is the goal here.
 
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Yep, true that. Real life has away of changing ones priorities. I tagged him just to see if he still had a pulse. lol
I'm friends with him on Facebook. He's still alive ;-)
 
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