P. scalare Río Negro Manacapru

[David Moses Heng]

Gotten this today from Hong Yang.

Shot taken with them in the bag undergoing preparation for release into tank.




Total 10 pieces.

[kenzai]

Their body shape look so sharp, look like some dagger which you can throw.

[xinanlove]

hi, how they are doing your tank??

[David Moses Heng]

Good. They are colouring up and are eating a lot.

Fed them with 2 cubes of frozen blood worms and "Aquathrive" dry pellets.

Will post pictures of them tonight. They are showing reddness of the top fin and upper back.

[Csababá]

Hi, I would love to see some bigger, sharper pics, too. (if possible, this one as well)

[David Moses Heng]

Will try to post them ASAP.

[David Moses Heng]

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In the bag yesterday when I first gotten them home.

[David Moses Heng]

pictures of them swimming in the tank.

[David Moses Heng]

updates:



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I lost one of them last week after a water change. But the remaining 9 is doing well. Diet consist of baby fries of platies, shrimplets, earthworm from the garden, Brine shrimp, Daphina, frozen blood worm and dry pellets.

[Terence Chia]

May I know where is Hong Yang??

[Terence Chia]

May I kwow where is hong Yang??

[Jitticus]

I have a few pieces comm-ed together with my friend's Manacapuru Angels. The red is developing, albeit not as red as I'd like them to be. Perhaps they are still young. I hope this doesn't count hijacking. I'm just sharing the passion.
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[David Moses Heng]

Hi Jitticus, you are most welcome to share your knowledge here with one and all. I will be shifting my 9 pieces to a recon, used, old 422 by next week.

Terrencee, Hong Yang is located at BLK 306 CCK ave 4. there is only 1 LFS around lot 1/cck MRT.

Hoe this helps.

[johannes]

May I kwow where is hong Yang??

You can call Hong Yang (Yong) at
Tel : 68935166

[Jitticus]

Yeah Bro Altum, my friend feeds them with the Hikari oranda pellets and for some reason the fish are very stocky, with beautiful fin extensions. The 4-2-2 will definitely work wonders on their deportment.

[illumnae]

Hmm just a little correction, I believe the Manacapuru angels are from the Manacapuru region and not the Rio Negro. Nonetheless, they're beautiful fish and almost as stunning to me as altums when they're grown and have their full red colour.

To enhance the reds, you may want to consider feeding them a food rich in caretonoids like Tetrabits or cyclopeeze, or if you're adventurous enough, make a beefheart/seafood frozen mix to feed them with like discus keepers do and add in a dose of astaxathin (aka Naturose) to really bring out the reds.

[David Moses Heng]

thanks yi xiang for the sharing.

[David Moses Heng]

Updates on my manas here. Out of the 10, i lost 2 of the smaller ones.

I attempted to take some shots of them and here is one of them. Please pardon the poor shots.

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Diet: Monday - Brine Shrimp
Tuesday - Tubieifex
Wednesday - earth worm
Thursday - feeder shrimp
Friday - aquafix pellets from C328
Saturday - sea prawn from market
Sunday - Rest and tank maintenance.

Current size: Tip to tip about 6.5 inch.
Head to tail about 3 inch.

Tank size: 422 with subdued lighting. Tank is stock with drift woods and some rocks.

After changing water, I dechlorinate the water with Genesis dechlorinator then add Denerle S27.

Thank you all

[kenny]

Hi Altum lover,

any reason why there are no plants in the latest update, though you used to have them? Is it a must to keep them in low light ? Jitticus's tank look quite dark also..

Thanks

[Fingerling]

Nice growth there,

Looks like your angels are very well taken care of with the routine diet and vitamin supplements.