I believe it was Rahul's intention for these to get established in SG and then he could come by later some time.
Sorry to here about the smaller gloriosus! I suppose if anyone every is leaving from the US sometime soon we could send some more in. I just have to hope that pair obliges me with babies again. Treat him/her sort of like a coldwater cichlid and you will be fine, they are tough fish. Probably want to watch the heat though. If it is a male before long it will start developing lots of blue spots. They get pretty big. I think he will eat the shrimp when he gets older, I feed the adults mainly red wiggler worms, chopped usually but they can take bait sized ones.
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The Elassoma tank looks great! They love hiding amongst fine leaved plants like Najas. The fry(very tiny) are either cannabalistic or otherwise just starve each other out so you usually can't raise many in a small tank. Btw, those fish are quite young and that is not maximum size or color. The male will grow to be a impressive fish(I think mine passed the 1 inch mark)...jet black with irridescent sparkles(better than the photos in the link posted). If you have access to a chiller you might want to play with that, but they seem to pretty much breed themselves. Just start adding in BBS when you see the male courting the female. I think theirs a chance the cherry shrimp might become a permanent food supply but daphnia, brine shrimp of all sizes, and blackworms are taken eagerly. When you get young I'd give them BBS daily. Should be pretty easy, but in the top photo the male is on the right. Outside of breeding condition, they have darker fins, more "sparkles" on their sides, and longer fins, particularly the pelvic fins.
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