Midas...
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I saw your post on MFK about sexing your midas. Also you had responded to an ad where a guy was selling a 16” midas. That thing looked massive. My previous big cichlid was a 16” female pearsei that was a huge presence in my 300, I cant even imagine a big midas with a giant hump like that one had.
I once had a 13” midas, maybe even slightly larger for a second.
It was a she and she was nasty mean so I got rid of her!
I love how much white yours has. Where and how long ago did you pick him up at? Also, where did you source some P-Bass.... I’ve been looking the last 6-7 months and I can’t find any local and the ones willing to ship are astronomical in price
It was a she and she was nasty mean so I got rid of her!
I love how much white yours has. Where and how long ago did you pick him up at? Also, where did you source some P-Bass.... I’ve been looking the last 6-7 months and I can’t find any local and the ones willing to ship are astronomical in price
Orthopod
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He/she is a relatively new edition - I picked “her” up (sold to me as a her) from Angry Fish out of Arizona. I just couldn’t resist the orange paint splash around each eye contrasted by the white.
My peacock bass are picked up from a local guy with good taste in fish who was down sizing. I actually had the chance to pick up a bigger temensis when covid was going strong in the beginning of April from him but at the time I wasn’t interested in driving 1:30 with all the hurdles to get it. Regretting that now lol. predatory fins has some peacock bass nice size and will ship but costs and arm and 2 legs. They have this lemon yellow bass available right now but it costs $700. I spend way more on fish than I should but haven’t crossed that threshold on bass yet. Most peacock bass species / subspecies / color variants look similar enough that I like them all still, lol.
Orthopod
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I yearn for a fish store like monster aquarium to open locally, but it might have only the 3 of us shipping at it while people kept coming in and asking they don’t have more exotic plants, lol.
Orthopod
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The other thing we should do is a field collecting trip to Florida - cichla, Midas, festae and host of others are introduced to the water ways. The best looking festae I’ve seen was in a Florida canal lol.
fishguy1978
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MFK had a non-native species thread where members were showing off what they were catching in US water ways.
Orthopod
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I posted in one thread where a guy had found a pond in Arizona with Africans and had pulled out an adult venustus. Is that the one or was there another? Probably another because I’m the one that went on a tangent in that post, lol.
Orthopod
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Let me know if you guys are interested in temensis - just happened to pick up 5 from a MFK guy this am in a deal that was too good to pass up and he’s shipping to me. They are supposedly 4-5 inches - tems usually hit over a foot by a year.
fishguy1978
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Not sure. That was many moons ago.
Orthopod
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This is one in the last month so different one.
Send me a pm with prices and how many you aren’t going to keep and I will see if I can work it out!
Modest_Man
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Took me forever to find this photo of me fishing in Hawaii back in 06'. Photobucket went down the crapper!
Modest_Man
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Found the photos back in this MFK thread - https://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/threads/cichlid-fishing-photos-not-florida.106081/
Went back to Oahu last year and brought a cooler and collection gear. Didn't catch anything but tilapia. The pond that had the green terrors was empty.
Went back to Oahu last year and brought a cooler and collection gear. Didn't catch anything but tilapia. The pond that had the green terrors was empty.
Orthopod
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Awesome - love that bright orange.
Orthopod
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Here are the tems- haven’t got them to eat yet - they are alll between 4 and 5 inches. Let me to try to get them eating before I pawn any off - I was told they were eating pellets but not so confident they were now. Still early though. Apologize for the horrible photos.
