yo ! Nannacara adoketa

[apistoworld(HK)]

yo ! Nannacara adoketa

 

[Mike Wise]

No, now Ivanacara adoketa.

 

[apistoworld(HK)]

thank you for your info

 

[Gwendal]

The same ^^. Now is Ivanacara adoketa.






1 saludo

 

[HaakonH]

These guys are MEAN! you can almost tell by the look of the fish that they are out to raise havoc I keep 4 in a big tank (540 liters), and slowly but surely the other fishes in the tank disappear. My adoketas are now about half-grown, and they haven't paired up yet. But you can tell they are constantly on the prowl, swimming around and commanding their surroundings. I had a bunch of the largest Amano shrimps I've ever seen in there, some even bigger than the adoketas. Needless to say, they were all gone within weeks (thought they might, but still...). Micropoecilia minima - all gone. Nannostomus mortenthaleri - 1 of 10 left. A group of Axelrodia riesei is still doing fine, they seem to be too fast. Some Apistogramma gephyra are still holding their own too, but how long will that last I wonder...But the adokets are amazing, beautiful and very interesting cichlids nonetheless, so I will let them have this tank as their 'playground', and simply avoid putting anything in there that is in immediate danger. No doubt, these cichlids deserve to be named after Ivan The Terrible. Good thing they don't grow two or three times as big as they do!

Haakon

 

[oaken]

These guys are MEAN! you can almost tell by the look of the fish that they are out to raise havoc I keep 4 in a big tank (540 liters), and slowly but surely the other fishes in the tank disappear. My adoketas are now about half-grown, and they haven't paired up yet. But you can tell they are constantly on the prowl, swimming around and commanding their surroundings. I had a bunch of the largest Amano shrimps I've ever seen in there, some even bigger than the adoketas. Needless to say, they were all gone within weeks (thought they might, but still...). Micropoecilia minima - all gone. Nannostomus mortenthaleri - 1 of 10 left. A group of Axelrodia riesei is still doing fine, they seem to be too fast. Some Apistogramma gephyra are still holding their own too, but how long will that last I wonder...But the adokets are amazing, beautiful and very interesting cichlids nonetheless, so I will let them have this tank as their 'playground', and simply avoid putting anything in there that is in immediate danger. No doubt, these cichlids deserve to be named after Ivan The Terrible. Good thing they don't grow two or three times as big as they do!

Haakon

It's funny, because in my experience I. adoketa is the most peaceful dwarf cichlid I have ever kept. They did nothing to the Poecilia wingei that I kept with them for a while and there has never been any aggression between my pair. My pair is alone in a 80 litre tank right now with their first brood.

Does anyone else share my experience?

 

[Mike Wise]

My experience is similar to Haakon's, very aggressive. I started with 4 in a 20 gallon long tank. Once 2 paired off, the odd female was trashed; the odd male was shredded and would have been killed if I didn't remove him. This change occurred within 1 day. My guess is that your I. adoketa don't consider your livebearers as territorial threats. This may change once they decide to breed.