Hours of display

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I know the pics aren’t the sharpest but I thought I would take some snap shots something got into one of the young males and he thought he would try to move up in ranks he took on the dominant male for hours in displays literally

This female got caught peeking and the dominant male chased her away

[Tom2006]

the colour of your males is outstanding!! Do you feed them anything special?

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@Tom2006 wrote:

the colour of your males is outstanding!! Do you feed them anything special?

I do feed them a little of everything I use flake, sinking staplefood pellets some frozen food: brine shrimp almost every day but lightly a cube for several tanks, some plankton, emerald entree (mix of animal and vegetable),glassworm less often and a frozen cichlid mix only because it was left over. They also seem to like the hikari shrimp cuisine as well, and of course their own fry :mrgreen: I also find they tend to be more colourful during displays. The pictures were taken in my display tank

Most of the males in this tank are hand picked f1, one of the fish in the pictures was my oldest (wild caught in 2007)

[Tom2006]

Gorgeous tank….you ought to contact the PFK team and get the tank featured in the magazine!!

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I got some clearer pics I figured I would just put them in this thread

[Tom2006]

Gorgeous fish!

[theemon]

nice! whats that “leaf” to the right in most photos? the fake looking one that has little slices in it

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It is a madagascar lace plant it is struggling a little right now because of the heat of summer leaves seem to deform when the water hits 80F

[kiaralynn]

you don’t really have to have the sharpest photos because these are just so charming :wink:

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Thanks I used shutter speed of 1/25 if you consider that with rapid movement involved they are pretty sharp given the circumstances and camera settings

[snail]

lovely pics, the fish look in really good condition.

Do you notice at all if the CPDs have a hard time with hot weather? I know they tend to prefer it cooler but I can’t find out what is the maximum summer temps they are comfortable with.

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They don’t have any problem in the in the heat I have kept them anywhere from 74-82 f in my tanks but myanmar can get pretty hot, I would expect the water would be in at least the high 80’s seasonally you probably would not want to keep them at that temp all the time it may shorten the life span

[snail]

That is great to know thanks, I live in Portugal and the summers get really hot, it’s only for a week or two at a time but some fish don’t take it well so I was worried about the CPDs.

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