Labidochromis Caeruleus

[chr15_8]

got 6 Labidochromis caeruleus yesturday and took a few pictures

and a quick picture of the tank

chris

[L777]

Chris,
you’re new yellow labs shine up the tank beautifully!
Good choice!

[katkin]

Wow, they are beautiful, nice tank too.
K

[celestialdude]

Haha you can tell they just moved in, they’ve got that wide-eyed look about them…

[aquaholic85]

your fish are super stressed right now, apply adequate salt if you havn’t already and go easey with full lights right away, on/off gonna freak them out being so bright.
the barring shows their stress or horrible bloodline, hopefully stress. The bar going through the eye is mostly stress and found, in my experience: the ones with bars ended being males, but the may not be ‘fact’.

any way give them a few days to settle in and they should color up. have you decided on any other tank mates? tri and stay way from yellow/orange fish and nothing to aggressive. labs are prob. the least agressive mbuna, so find something who wont bully and out grow them.

jus remember not get to excited and add a bunch fish right away. let the tank work up its bio-load with the labs, and so on with each group of fish you buy.

overstocking a lil bit wit mbuna is good and keeps territorial disputes low, jus always be ready to pull out a bully fish, as that is the only way to protect your investment.. you can call it.. at the end

[chr15_8]

they still have bars on there body but there eyes seemed to have cleard up except one which has a little but not as much as before.

theve been feeding well.
day one – they had some pellets (a bit to big so had to buy some smaller) ones
day two – they had a pea with some pelltets
day three – pea’s again (2)
day four – pellets.

im planning on giving them some cucumber when i can get some.
is there any other food they would like aswell?

the ammonia is just above 0ppm (but below 0.25ppm) the other stats have remained the same.

chris

[L168]

Hi Chris,

Try spinach, they will like that

Mfg peter

[L777]

Chris, one thing I’ve noticed when cycling tanks is that many fish lose their appetite when the nitrite starts to pile up. For whatever reason, my experience with truly virgin tanks (not boosted with bacterial additions from commercial products or stable tanks) is that the nitrite readings take several weeks longer to decline than do the ammonia readings. Sorry if this is all stuff you know, but thought a reminder about loss of appetite might be useful to watch for in conjunction with your water tests.

[aquaholic85]

i feel mine exclusive New Life Spectrum, its a lil pricey but its worth it and the jar lasts few months. I feed mine once a day in the afternoon but you can do whatever.. cichlids really do seem to ‘sleep’…super groggy..in the a.m. when you turn the lights out…so if you plan on feeding them am be sure give them bout 15 min with lights on b4 you feed them.

you can go crazy feeding your fish frozen peas and veggies or what not..i’m not in too it, i have a life and being chef boyordee for my fish isn’t my thing.

how many U.S. gallons is your tank? and dimensions of the tank? i don’t know my metric very well..

[chr15_8]

@L168 wrote:

Hi Chris,

Try spinach, they will like that

Mfg peter

will add it top the list. thanks

ive read they eat carrot aswell?

@L777 wrote:

Chris, one thing I’ve noticed when cycling tanks is that many fish lose their appetite when the nitrite starts to pile up. For whatever reason, my experience with truly virgin tanks (not boosted with bacterial additions from commercial products or stable tanks) is that the nitrite readings take several weeks longer to decline than do the ammonia readings. Sorry if this is all stuff you know, but thought a reminder about loss of appetite might be useful to watch for in conjunction with your water tests.

will keep it in mind :wink:

dont want to say to much about the stuff im using but so far it seems good, except the little amount of ammonia.

im testing daily so should pick up on anything straight away.

thanlks

@aquaholic85 wrote:

i feel mine exclusive New Life Spectrum, its a lil pricey but its worth it and the jar lasts few months. I feed mine once a day in the afternoon but you can do whatever.. cichlids really do seem to ‘sleep’…super groggy..in the a.m. when you turn the lights out…so if you plan on feeding them am be sure give them bout 15 min with lights on b4 you feed them.

the lights come on at about 3 in the afternoon, i get home at about 4.30 ish and feed about 10 mins
later. i might feed a few pellets if im bored about an hour before lights out

@aquaholic85 wrote:

you can go crazy feeding your fish frozen peas and veggies or what not..i’m not in too it, i have a life and being chef boyordee for my fish isn’t my thing.

i dont cook for my fish lool

i leave a pea or 2 out for a few mins so its defrost. i then cut it into small bits and drop in so technichly im not cooking anything (which is a good thing as im teraball at cooking)

@aquaholic85 wrote:

how many U.S. gallons is your tank? and dimensions of the tank? i don’t know my metric very well..

its 49.2 us gallons

its about 47x15x16 (l X w X h)

thanks
chris

[Danio Angyl]

Damn. Second thing that came to mind, right after “OH, SHINEY!!!”, was “How the hell they gonna get the fish back out!?!” :lol:

It’s a beautiful set up and I’m sure the fish love all the little hiding places. I’m just wondering what it’ll be like if you ever have to net one of them!

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