My foray into CA cichlids

[fishguy1978]

This is to introduce Boomer the amphilophus hogaboomorum to the Box. Thank you @DMD123

 

[DMD123]

He looks to have settled in already. Seems happy with the extra space.

 

[lloyd378]

Looking great! I love the whole setup!!!

 

[fishguy1978]

Looking great! I love the whole setup!!!

Thanks, I need to put a clock in the fish room because time ceases to exist ​

 

[sir_keith]

The calm before the storm? I just don't see those beautiful sliver dollars being happy as dithers, but we shall see...

 

[FishBeast]

Beautiful tank and stock!

 

[fishguy1978]

Beautiful tank and stock!

Thank you. It has been a lot of fun putting it together.

 

[fishguy1978]

@DMD123 @lloyd378 I have tried Hikari Cichlid sinking, Tetra floating cichlid, and Omega one cichlid sinking. The SDs go crazy for all 3. Boomer just hangs back or mouths it and spits it out.
Also, when I got home today there was a 6in circular pit dug one the open side of the tank. Do Hoga dig? I have read flagtail cats are either pit spawners or bubble nesters so could have been them?

 

[lloyd378]

He ate everything for me... he is probably still adjusting to the new tank . Give it a week or so and he will start eating.
As for digging, that is normal. Amphs love to dig..... you should see how all the gravel is up against the front of the tank with both my chanco tank and trimac tank

 

[fishguy1978]

He ate everything for me... he is probably still adjusting to the new tank . Give it a week or so and he will start eating.
As for digging, that is normal. Amphs love to dig..... you should see how all the gravel is up against the front of the tank with both my chanco tank and trimac tank

So, no rooted plants have a chance? Diggers and vegetarians are against me
LOL

 

[DMD123]

The hoga was a pellet eater for me. He was fed Omega One floating and sinking. Ate more like a wild caught rather than tank born fish. What I mean is it was not a glutton and over ate. It tended to eat smaller meals and did not stuff itself. Im sure its getting used to the aggressive feeding behavior of the Silver dollars too.

 

[fishguy1978]

I will keep trying.

 

[fishguy1978]

Rehomed, due to not being the direction I had originally wanted to go. I’m still surprised at how passive Boomer was. Anytime I fed the SD went crazy like piraña and Boomer would retreat to the other side.

 

[DMD123]

So Im thinking Boomer decided to be a digger? Ive had some cichlids that left things alone and others that regularly decided to redecorate, lol.

 

[lloyd378]

Dmd, I think I saw one of the hogas at AP yesterday .... looked just like one of the 3 I gave you way back when ....

Anyways, these fish are getting some milage on them. Haha

From California to shawn, to me, to you, to fishguy , to someone new.

And I haven’t really kept track of the other two . Haha ( but I’m guessing one of the other two ended up at AP)

 

[fishguy1978]

So Im thinking Boomer decided to be a digger? Ive had some cichlids that left things alone and others that regularly decided to redecorate, lol.

No, his addition was limiting the addition of some othe fish I would like to add that are smaller.

 

[DMD123]

The other two are deceased. One was given to @Sean Talkington, a fishkeeper in Vancouver and it managed to jump out a small uncovered area in the back of the tank and the other got put into a tank for a little bit with the hoga that @fishguy1978 got and it was beat up and descaled. So that one was the last of the hoga.

 

[lloyd378]

So it might not have been the same fish I saw..... it looked like the hoga, but could have easily have been a red sided barred Midas

 

[fishguy1978]

So it might not have been the same fish I saw..... it looked like the hoga, but could have easily have been a red sided barred Midas

It was indeed a Hoga.

 

[lloyd378]

I thought, for some reason, that you lived down south like Rochester