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I dint know to be honest, the shop was bringing a lot of fish from Colombia at that time so they may have been wild caught, I don't think I asked though. I probably had too many males maybe. I had 10 or 12 fish to start with, but they bad so I ended up with more.
That’s strange, mine were always hungry and even used to bite my arms when I was doing anything in the tank, presumably they thought the little hairs were worms. The extreme aggression to other fishes didn’t happen until I’d had them about a year I think..
Agree about emperor tetras, as well as eating all the food, some males get extremely territorial and aggressive, when I had some in a tank 160cm long they kept all the Otocinclus and another group of tetras to a small area at one end of the tank! They also bred..,,
Whether they breed or not they are really great little cichlids, though they like to hide they are not at all shy and soon learn to beg for food. I really hope you can breed them,I think you have the best chance while they are young. It might not be a bad thing to have some dither fish with...
Try to get a picture of a male with the dorsal fin extended. I know its not easy...
This is the Orinoco one, nothopthalmus has the first fin rays extended.
I revisited the Oliver Lucanus video with the dwarf pikes and Dicrossus. One thing I noted was that he says the female pikes are about 2” and the males 3” . Mine got to twice that size respectively. I also reread an article by Vin Kutty about dwarf pikes. Referring actually to regani, he...
Get a group if you have room for them. I started with 5 but by the time I made up my mind to get them (I wasn't sure if I had anywhere suitable for them) they had been in the shop a few months and were extremely skinny. Two didn't make it.
Yours looks to be healthier. Mine would only eat...
Yes, I have seen that video of dicrossus foraging with Wallaciia - nice! Sadly I have never been able to get Dicrossus here.
This is my female when about the same size as yours, at first the ring around the ocellus looked more whitish, later the red became more obvious and the ocellus became...