Wild caught mblue

[sjsheng]

Hi,
I am keeping 1 WC 4-5' inch mblue frontosa together with farm breed of 4 burundi and 1 moba each 2-3' inch each.

My problem now is, the WC mblue is in my tank for about aweek, its have been hiding and shifting sand the whole day without taking any food.
And my rest of my frontosa are eating well, pH 8.4 nitrite 0 nitrate 0 ammonia 0.

I feeding them with NLS pellet and did try floating pellet but the WC species just wont eat. BS, BW and MS with garlic also shown negative result.

Any bro here can advise?
Do frontosa need lots of current?
I am using a ehiem canister filter.

Regards

[phuture]

Bro, any pic to show?

I guess they are just new to the water change. Try observe further.


Any bro can help? :)

[sjsheng]

Notice the tails behind the tank. The mblue is hiding over there.
There is 2 hiding spots for him, wondering why still so shy.
:confused:

[SniperY]

Guess it is just new to the environment. For frontosa, best is not to feed them with any floating food. Once they contact with the air while taking the food, later on you will have problem. For front., you not necessary to install any strong current pump, as long as your filteration system managed to filter away the waste, than it is more than sufficient. Lastly, be more patient and eventually, the WC once it adapt to the environment, it will come out and hunt for food. Cheers!

[sjsheng]

Thanks alot for your advise.
Was thinking stop the feeding for about 3-4 days then test it out again and see if he eats the food.

[phuture]

Don't worry...they will eat once alright with the water otherwise they may be sick...;)

[poseidon]

update us the out come :)

[Aquatic Planet]

yes, they need time to adpat. The majority mature fast but 1 of them rather shy and do other things...:D

give it more time, bro.:D

[Aquarian]

any wild caught fish will take longer time to adapt, patience is the key, avoid floating food, less current

[sjsheng]

4 days ago just remove the power head so basically just using the ehiem canister filter 2226.
Yesterday was a great day for me. My mblue just swim out to have his dinner during feeding time. Hungry like a pig.
So today fed him again. Constantly eating for 2 days already pellet and MS both alright for him. :D

Yes avoid floating food. he would dash up for food afraid he might jump out of my tank. :eek:

Thank all the bro here from giving me positive feedback. As this was my first thread here.

Regards

[SniperY]

4 days ago just remove the power head so basically just using the ehiem canister filter 2226.
Yesterday was a great day for me. My mblue just swim out to have his dinner during feeding time. Hungry like a pig.
So today fed him again. Constantly eating for 2 days already pellet and MS both alright for him. :D

Yes avoid floating food. he would dash up for food afraid he might jump out of my tank. :eek:

Thank all the bro here from giving me positive feedback. As this was my first thread here.

RegardsCongratulation! Nice to hear that :) Keep up the good work! If u want to further enhance your frontosa colour, try to keep the ph constant and best is btw 8.5-8.8. Keep us update! :)

[sjsheng]

Sure why not? :D
I think his colour not out yet, cause he just settle down.
But have been more active nowadays. When walk past him, he behave like nobody business. :)

[poseidon]

well done,great to hear that your mblue:) are doing fine!

[sjsheng]

But was wondering why the colour of the bar sometimes will be darker and sometime will be lighter in colour. any idea? :confused:

[Aquatic Planet]

But was wondering why the colour of the bar sometimes will be darker and sometime will be lighter in colour. any idea? :confused:
when u see stripes means the fish is stress and not stable yet. If u see the fish colour is balance means he is happy and adapt to environment.

Hope u r getting on well and happy with the fish keeping.:)

[Aquarian]

this is becos they are still not stable yet, sometimes they will be like this when they are threatened by other fish

But was wondering why the colour of the bar sometimes will be darker and sometime will be lighter in colour. any idea? :confused:

[sjsheng]

Okay, thanks. :)

[SniperY]

Good answer by Bro's Aquarian and Aquatic Planet.

[sjsheng]

Now finally can see the mblue colour already. The stripes bar colour get darker already. Assume it have adapt to the environment.:)
About 2 weeks for it to settle down and a week to get it to feed. :)

Regards

[sjsheng]

Update! :p

[sjsheng]

just bought one piece of zaire from CF. :D

[poseidon]

Now finally can see the mblue colour already. The stripes bar colour get darker already. Assume it have adapt to the environment.:)
About 2 weeks for it to settle down and a week to get it to feed. :)

Regards

hi there,

maybe once its is more stable,you can update us with pics again,i would to upload your Cichlid pics into our fish-hub gallery,hope you dont mind,thanks!:)

[sjsheng]

Ya sure, taken from phone camera will taken with digital camera next time round. Find that frontosa are more active during late evening time. Usually noon time all hiding, maybe evening time is always the time i am back. :confused:

Anyway find that fish hub bro are real active and helpful
2 thumbs up :)

Regards

[poseidon]

Ya sure, taken from phone camera will taken with digital camera next time round. Find that frontosa are more active during late evening time. Usually noon time all hiding, maybe evening time is always the time i am back. :confused:

Anyway find that fish hub bro are real active and helpful
2 thumbs up :)

Regards

i will have leave this to bro SniperY and bro Aquarian,i think they use to keep frontosas before,as for me i only keep Rajah Cichlasoma for now:)hope they can help you!2 thumbs up for you too.

regards

[Aquarian]

i have kep zaire blue, kigoma, burundi before, they are nocturnal meaning they hunt at night, if u ever feed them prawn or small feeder, u will notice that the numbers will reduced significantly overnite. In the wild they will hunt at nite, lots of smaller fishes will rest at the bottom of the lake and they just need to open their mouth and scoop them up. Frontosa is consider not a very fast swimmer so in the day time they will be less likely to catch up with their prey.

You can read uo more on the fish here http://www.cichlid-forum.com/articles/frontosa_corner.php

Ya sure, taken from phone camera will taken with digital camera next time round. Find that frontosa are more active during late evening time. Usually noon time all hiding, maybe evening time is always the time i am back. :confused:

Anyway find that fish hub bro are real active and helpful
2 thumbs up :)

Regards

[sjsheng]

I am afraid my wild caught mblue will eat up my junvenile frontosa! :confused:

[SniperY]

My frontosa tank setup, now no longer with me :(

[Regional]

Nice setup, Mod. Great pics.

[SniperY]

Nice setup, Mod. Great pics.Thanks, but anyway now this front is no longer with me already, i supposed now they must be growing quite big liao :)

[sjsheng]

Wow... impressive setup you got last time.
Nice substrate too....

envy. :p

[SniperY]

Wow... impressive setup you got last time.
Nice substrate too....

envy. :pThanks! Actually, i also felt regret after releasing them :( But, what to do, in order to get something, then it will lose something, that's the balancing in life! :)

[sjsheng]

Ya totally agree. :)
That no perfect in life. :)

[sjsheng]

my zeire. :D

[Regional]

my zeire. :D

Nice one!:)

[SniperY]

my zeire. :DNice colour ;)

[sjsheng]

Hi,
Thanks for the comment. She is still young. Still need quite a long time for her to growth up.

Regards