View Full Version : my braces are stuck (cool Nic pic)
gregga
10-30-2003, 9:38 AM
both about 4"..male left..female right
http://server2.uploadit.org/files/301003-nicliplock.jpg
Tim Bo
10-30-2003, 12:22 PM
Nice pic. I am curious as to what the background shows. Are the white grids part of a tank divider?
JazzyB
10-30-2003, 1:50 PM
Also curious to know what is that structure in the background? Cute picture.
gregga
10-30-2003, 10:26 PM
thanks guys.......
actually, the pair are in a 265 that has to be moved soon. So in order to make as little work as possible, I placed only easily-removable objects in the tank as barriers: pots, grids, driftwood. (no gravel or substrate).....
Dragon_Lord_Tia
10-31-2003, 2:23 AM
if you had gravel they would show alot more color and will have a generaly better all over apperance i recommend you put some gravel it but if you cant for any reason thats ok but if you can i advise it.
gregga
10-31-2003, 5:34 AM
thanks dragon. I already have another breeding pair of Nics with unbelievable color and 200 fry in another tank. I keep my 6 african tanks with a crushed coral substrate and 6 (New World) tanks with natural looking river rock.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
10-31-2003, 5:40 PM
not a problem nice to see your breeding them also:)
Tiger15
11-06-2003, 9:02 PM
I have 3 female Nics that I keep with my Africans. They have similar water requirements and look remarkly like African. Their head shape looks like Tropheus and Mbuna and the body color resembles many Haplochromine species. They are also extraordinarily hardy. A year ago I threw in a Nic to accompany a sick fish in a hospital tank for treatment. I know it was cruel but the Nic provided me a bio monitor on overdosing and to help consume food the sick fish wouldn't eat. I adminstered three differnt antibiotic over a 2 week period. The sick fish eventually died of horible bacterial infection that practically ate away the flesh, but the Nic was hardly affected. She continued to eat until the end of treatment when she started to develope a small lession on the body. I threw her back to the community tank and she recovered completely in a week and now turned into a beautiful fish.
andruboz
11-06-2003, 10:48 PM
mind if i throw in a nic pic? these are all the guys in my 55g. the only thing not in the picture is a 5" african brown knife, and a 4" green severum.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
11-08-2003, 1:50 AM
is thats a discus i see in the background?
Slappy*McFish
11-08-2003, 2:17 AM
Looks like a gold severum.
Dragon_Lord_Tia
11-08-2003, 5:28 PM
IMO it looks to round to be a severum but i could be wrong:rolleyes:
gregga
11-08-2003, 7:08 PM
gold severum
Dragon_Lord_Tia
11-08-2003, 11:20 PM
D.A.M.N IT suppose with the head shape and all.:rolleyes:
andruboz
11-09-2003, 12:26 AM
yup gold severum.. but its now in a 20 gallon. it started doing the sit in the corner and stare out of the tank thing i associate with being stressed out. i have lost 2 jewels this way so i am hoping the low stress twenty will get it back to being a happy camper.
gregga...is the female larger than the male? It's the male that has the dominant stripe right?
I have two in a tank alone and they are acting kinda strange. I love those fish, among my favorites!