55 Gallon Mbuna Tank
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Some updates here 
In February one of my OBs was nearly killed by her tankmates. Her tail was totally removed and could barely sit up on the bottom of the hospital tank. She spend a month and a half in the hospital tank and has made a full recovery. Only part of her tail grew back but she's doing great back in the main tank So here are some update pics. Also my male haras are showing all kinds of color but always dim when I get near with the camera so I took a video instead which is here:
http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Blue2Fyre/?action=view¤t=CIMG1887.flv
Finally the little brownish fish (in the pictures) is Tim. Now Tim is an ice blue zebra. Before I added the haras I removed all the adult ice blues and fry from the tank. I took everything out and scooped ALL the fish out. Somehow I missed Tim and he showed his face the night after I took all the others to trade in
In February one of my OBs was nearly killed by her tankmates. Her tail was totally removed and could barely sit up on the bottom of the hospital tank. She spend a month and a half in the hospital tank and has made a full recovery. Only part of her tail grew back but she's doing great back in the main tank
So here are some update pics. Also my male haras are showing all kinds of color but always dim when I get near with the camera so I took a video instead which is here:http://s4.photobucket.com/albums/y138/Blue2Fyre/?action=view¤t=CIMG1887.flv
Finally the little brownish fish (in the pictures) is Tim. Now Tim is an ice blue zebra. Before I added the haras I removed all the adult ice blues and fry from the tank. I took everything out and scooped ALL the fish out. Somehow I missed Tim and he showed his face the night after I took all the others to trade in
So here's a bit of an update. The tank has been totally rescaped. I now have black sand and granite cobblestone. My fish have been growing well and I've already had to remove a few extra males.
The last picture is little Tim. I am really stumped on what he is. His mom was sold to me as a ice blue zebra but she didn't look anything like my other one. She was mud brown and holding when I got her. Tim here is almost a year old and still only 2" long. He was always the smallest of the batch though.
The last picture is little Tim. I am really stumped on what he is. His mom was sold to me as a ice blue zebra but she didn't look anything like my other one. She was mud brown and holding when I got her. Tim here is almost a year old and still only 2" long. He was always the smallest of the batch though.
He's my little buddy
Actually there is a story behind Tim. I did a big stock change last spring and decided to rehome all my ice blue zebras. The females didn't look that nice and I was getting in some white top haras. I pulled every rock out of that tank and netted all my fish and separated them into keeping and rehoming. It took me all day but I got all the little ice blue fry out of the tank and took the group to the LFS. I put all the rock back in and sat down to rest. It was at this time Tim poked his little head out from behind a rock! I recognized him because he had always been the smallest fry. Well I wasn't about to rip it apart again to get one tiny fish so I kept him.
Actually there is a story behind Tim. I did a big stock change last spring and decided to rehome all my ice blue zebras. The females didn't look that nice and I was getting in some white top haras. I pulled every rock out of that tank and netted all my fish and separated them into keeping and rehoming. It took me all day but I got all the little ice blue fry out of the tank and took the group to the LFS. I put all the rock back in and sat down to rest. It was at this time Tim poked his little head out from behind a rock! I recognized him because he had always been the smallest fry. Well I wasn't about to rip it apart again to get one tiny fish so I kept him.
