Chuckie Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishbites Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 Nice Lilli! These are on my "fish I want to have but don't have enough tanks yet" list. Are they the Black Calvus or White Calvus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted February 7, 2009 Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 I absolutely adore these guys :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 7, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2009 They are From My LFS Calvus , lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mez Posted February 10, 2009 Report Share Posted February 10, 2009 Look young and stressed, but i'd say white. I loved keeping these guys. Calvus and Compressiceps all day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 They don't like me pink camera! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Looking at those pics I'd be leaning towards white calvus (Chaitika), however being in a white substrate can sometimes make it hard to tell. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted February 11, 2009 Report Share Posted February 11, 2009 Is it purely a colour thing? What differences would you look for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Yep it purely is a colour thing in these guys! Though i really do think they are black calvus if they were purchused from a LFS. There are no breeders of white calvus at the time being, and if they were they'd be offloaded to the public first rather than the shops. An easy recount of the price by Lisa should be able to clarify which strain of calvus they are. Cheers, Richard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 They were $30 each. I was surprised at the price, for a LFS. Normally I see calvus costing more than that. For those interesed, black calvus images: http://images.google.com.au/images?hl=en&a...mages&gbv=2 white calvus images: http://images.google.com.au/images?gbv=2&a...G=Search+Images I laugh at the photo - they look so paranoid! I was just playing around with my camera. I might put some danios in there as dither fish, to help with the paranoia. Anyone have thoughts on that? (Obv I'd QT them first). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeachSlices Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 the calvus might stalk the danios at night. Have you watched them eat its like slowlyyyy slowlyyyy .........snatch food .......runs....... i use to keep them some guy in fairfeild sells calvus for around $20 he has hundreds i'm not sure where he is now but he use to post up posts on the trading post. Simon P.S. remember no bloodworms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callatya Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Oh, how interesting! I saw one get quite dark black stripes the other night, but the rest seemed cruisy and were still very pale. Maybe it'll be more obvious when they get a bit older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 They are only getting freeze dried blackworm now, occasionally bloodworm and brine shrimp. why no bloodworm? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNGLE Posted February 12, 2009 Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Why no bloodworm?.....because of the protein. Most of the Tangs seem to graze on the algae growing on rocks.Apart from a few crustaceans and copepods living in the algae, the diet is high in vegetable matter. Fish can 'bloat' and die if overfed on protein. I think that calvus are designed to hunt fry hiding among rocks,so would probably benefit for some live food. BTW....I think your fish are the newer 'white' variety. I kept a large school of compressiceps and black calvus for over two years. Sure black calvus have deeper bodies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2009 Thanks for that info, that's interesting They certainly look and act predatory :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Figure_8 Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Great looking shishies Lilli! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNGLE Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 I agree with the danios for dither fish. I have about a dozen long finned zebras and keep them with my Julidochromis dickfeldi. Added bonus is the caviar freely dropped by the danios. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuckie Posted February 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Yes, they will be handy for caviar! Are your julies less shy having the danios in the tank? Thos 2 species would look quite good together - all the stripes! These guys are too small for now to even think about eating adult danios. Maybe they will in due course, but so be it! Years ago I kept a healthy and prolific brichardi colony, and I am pretty sure I fed them a protein-dense diet (old habits are just that - old, lol). What do people feed tanganyikans if they're trying to minimise animal protein? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUNGLE Posted February 13, 2009 Report Share Posted February 13, 2009 Lilli the funny thing is that the Julies disappeared when I put the danios in! I was able to obtain 6 pairs and gave 3 pairs to my son. I ordered 12 fish and the lfs bought about 25.On the day they arrived,Jack and I observed their behaviour.The six pairs were obviously clinging to each other in the bare tank. I bought the danios about a week later.The Julies disappeared because they were breeding! Dickfeldis are very beautiful when happy.....they take on a deep purple body colour. Regarding feeding.....most of my fish get live mossie larvae,frozen Daphnia and Sera flake food. Brichardis are sublimely beautiful fish.Hard to beat for a single species tank. I always give them a dither fish as well.I have noticed they don't like frozen bloodworms.They LOVE daphnia!! In my opinion,red meat is the worst form of protein.Better to supply it as shrimp or minced fish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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