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I ve had fish tanks for year's probably close to 35 years, and have finally decided to keep only one or two species of fish, my favorite are green sevron, and gold sevron, my wife's like the orange parrot fish ,they are related to sevrons a hybrid cross between sevrons and the orange meat eating devil fish ( devil fish are extremly aggresive meat eaters). Sevrons are primarily veggie eaters.
I ve heard the parrot fish will darken to brown if fed large amounts of meat flake food's ,,mine only eat the Koi floating food and have done so for a few years.
they seem very healthy. the big boy in the picture is 5 y/o gold sevron he is about the third generation of sevrons I ve owned over the last 13 years since I retired and returned to Virginia. all the fish in thsi tank are nearly five except the little fish they don't live that long...I ve heard sevrons can live up to 7 to 10 years they usally get a little to big for my tanks around 5-6 I have pet stores beg me for the big ones and they give me large boxes of food for free.. hehe I usally start with 6 babies and they end up like this after a few years. i would need 300 gal tank to breed sevrons correctly ... I just like them to look at, they are so tame as adults I can actually touch them just watch you finger cause they can lounge at you they don't have front teeth but their mouth has a harden lip used for scraping and they grind most of their food in their rear teeth near the gills, thats a bit messy when feeding pellet food thats why I need the little fish for clean up.
the other small fish are clean up fish pearl and rainbow daino's that keep the tank clean by eating any food that makes it past the larger fishes gills as they feed, I always shut down fliltration while feeding this gives the little guys time to clean up food dust before I restart the,three filters I use on this tank they are sand filter , wet vat sump biological it holds around 10 galons of water, and a large canister with carbon..
I usally change about 1/2 the water about every 4 months, filtration and the right amount of food keep the maint to minimum. I do need to rinse the pre-filterweekly to remove the stuff trapped in the pad it fills up pretty quick with the large sevrons the are over 10 in .the tank is the last 95 octagon Ocean Pacific tank sold at my favorite pet store it was nearly 100 lbs empty very thick glass there's ove 100 pounds of gravel and the water is over 1000 pounds so this tank need to be on the first floor. :P.. hehe the OP company stopped making 95 due to the cost and the weight of shipping.
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finally the secret for keeping large aggresive fish is to have enough schooling (dianio's) fish to prevent them from focusing their attention on each other and the large driftwood prevents them from actually biting they can run around the wood to escape the aggresive dominant fish every tank has a pecking order . they may chase each other at times when I am coming to the tank to feed they try to postion themselves for the most food... PS the drfit wood is critical to keeping pleco fish i have a red velvet and a rhino pleco in this tank they are a bit shy, you can see the large cat hanging up side down on the wood many cats eat small fish this variety has to small of a mouth..he would if he could.
there's is also 2 steel blue loaches around 8 years old over 6 inchs I also have a rare tiger loach
doug ;D
I have learned many tricks from the experts on controling PH, I never have to check my ph on my tanks its exactly 7.2...more to followin the future.
and you can never have to much filtration...
I ve had fish tanks for year's probably close to 35 years, and have finally decided to keep only one or two species of fish, my favorite are green sevron, and gold sevron, my wife's like the orange parrot fish ,they are related to sevrons a hybrid cross between sevrons and the orange meat eating devil fish ( devil fish are extremly aggresive meat eaters). Sevrons are primarily veggie eaters.
I ve heard the parrot fish will darken to brown if fed large amounts of meat flake food's ,,mine only eat the Koi floating food and have done so for a few years.
they seem very healthy. the big boy in the picture is 5 y/o gold sevron he is about the third generation of sevrons I ve owned over the last 13 years since I retired and returned to Virginia. all the fish in thsi tank are nearly five except the little fish they don't live that long...I ve heard sevrons can live up to 7 to 10 years they usally get a little to big for my tanks around 5-6 I have pet stores beg me for the big ones and they give me large boxes of food for free.. hehe I usally start with 6 babies and they end up like this after a few years. i would need 300 gal tank to breed sevrons correctly ... I just like them to look at, they are so tame as adults I can actually touch them just watch you finger cause they can lounge at you they don't have front teeth but their mouth has a harden lip used for scraping and they grind most of their food in their rear teeth near the gills, thats a bit messy when feeding pellet food thats why I need the little fish for clean up.
the other small fish are clean up fish pearl and rainbow daino's that keep the tank clean by eating any food that makes it past the larger fishes gills as they feed, I always shut down fliltration while feeding this gives the little guys time to clean up food dust before I restart the,three filters I use on this tank they are sand filter , wet vat sump biological it holds around 10 galons of water, and a large canister with carbon..
I usally change about 1/2 the water about every 4 months, filtration and the right amount of food keep the maint to minimum. I do need to rinse the pre-filterweekly to remove the stuff trapped in the pad it fills up pretty quick with the large sevrons the are over 10 in .the tank is the last 95 octagon Ocean Pacific tank sold at my favorite pet store it was nearly 100 lbs empty very thick glass there's ove 100 pounds of gravel and the water is over 1000 pounds so this tank need to be on the first floor. :P.. hehe the OP company stopped making 95 due to the cost and the weight of shipping.
.
finally the secret for keeping large aggresive fish is to have enough schooling (dianio's) fish to prevent them from focusing their attention on each other and the large driftwood prevents them from actually biting they can run around the wood to escape the aggresive dominant fish every tank has a pecking order . they may chase each other at times when I am coming to the tank to feed they try to postion themselves for the most food... PS the drfit wood is critical to keeping pleco fish i have a red velvet and a rhino pleco in this tank they are a bit shy, you can see the large cat hanging up side down on the wood many cats eat small fish this variety has to small of a mouth..he would if he could.
there's is also 2 steel blue loaches around 8 years old over 6 inchs I also have a rare tiger loach
doug ;D
I have learned many tricks from the experts on controling PH, I never have to check my ph on my tanks its exactly 7.2...more to followin the future.
and you can never have to much filtration...
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