Brooksters fish cave, yup...

[Brookster123]

He's a major punk. I had to take the glass tops off the back of the tank, when a cube of food hits he Jackie Chan's that cube and I was was afraid he'd break the panel. That shovel tail moves water....

 

[coralbandit]

The beast

Get him a ball to kick around !
He looks lonely !

 

[V227]

What a beautiful fish. A battering ram with a really big tail.

 

[Brookster123]

He gets no toys.... i could be doing much more with his tank. He's a blessed prisoner at this point

 

[coralbandit]

A couple big male swordtails might set him straight?
Hard to come up with 'peaceful lasting more then a meal' type fish for him..

 

[V227]

Just think how cool your bad boy would look swimming with a Green Texas Carpintis and a Salvini. Probably not a realistic possibility.

 

[Brookster123]

He's proven he's not compatible with other fish. I don't like chaotic tanks... He seems fine by himself, greets me at the glass and looks pretty healthy.

 

[V227]

Realisticly, almost an impossible task introducing new fish into the tank of a big, solitary New World cichlid. I wouldn't change things either.

 

[TMaier]

Beautiful fish.

 

[Brookster123]

Making moves.
Here's the cave as it sits, right rack to left
40b- discus grow out
40b- thory/ spot cheek "time out"
30- amazon and pea puffer romper room aka snail processing plant
65- red turqs discus (soon to be new grow out and 40b will be qt)
75- electric blue acara and misc. Cichlids that did not get along with thory, he's a real deeckhead!
90- just filled, going to be discus display!! Woo!!
30- electric blue ram and cardinal tetra, last high tech planted
20- temp holding for lost/ misplaced feesh

 

[V227]

Thory, might be bad, but he is my favorite out of all your fish.

 

[Brookster123]

Thory, might be bad, but he is my favorite out of all your fish.

He's the best fish I have. He makes eye contact with you, it's pretty cool.

 

[Tbox]

Exciting action going on in that room. You're getting closer to being a full time partial water changer. find a neighborhood kid to take under your wing to teach aquarium maintenance.

Haha, I need a snail processing plant(puffer) too. My MTSs are outta control.

 

[Brookster123]

It's not bad. Pumps make short work of it.

 

[coralbandit]

Glad to see others busy inside during the winter .. A hidden benefit of living up north !
You'll have a room full of discus someday......

 

[Brookster123]

Anyone still around? Thory is doing his final laps. No food, no sense, just stress. I'm not liking the obvious solution here as I dont think I can physically do it. I'm going to need to create a pitfall of sorts for him. Senility is setting in.

 

[Autumnsky]

....

 

[TMaier]

So sorry to hear. Anyone on hand to help you out?

 

[Brookster123]

So sorry to hear. Anyone on hand to help you out?

Nah. I'll take him out for ice cream tomorrow

 

[Brookster123]

On the plus side the 10 earth eaters need a little more space.