Wild Caught Browns, Blues & Heckels

[pfeff]

I just thought i'd share some of the Wilds I have just got from Marlon.

If you have picked up fish from Marlon's house these are the Wilds from his personal collection.

So far I have moved 4 of the 8 and the other 4 I will bring home on the weekend. I intend on keeping 4-3 of the 8 (selling 3-4) and passing on the good deal I got buy buying all the lot.

The 4 that went in last night have all sprung to life this morning after their 1hr trip across Sydney. They are schooling with my other discus well and 2 ate some beefheart this morning.

I got 1 bad photo on my iphone last night of my favourite of the first 4 (lights were off and it was dark in their tank). The 2nd wild in the shot was not comfortable as this was about 15mins after going in. Though all 4 are holding fins high, swimming well this morning.

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200374_10150116550691699_563321698_6654471_1694975 _n.jpg

[pfeff]

Good photos finally.

Large Heckel
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/190599_10150119120936699_563321698_6679048_184106_ n.jpg

Medium Heckel (rescued from deaths door and wont grow but still stunning)
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/189116_10150119120426699_563321698_6679038_33811_n .jpg

Large Semi Royal Blue Inanu #1
http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/200003_10150119120261699_563321698_6679035_6218087 _n.jpg
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/189061_10150119120121699_563321698_6679032_5671364 _n.jpg

Large Semi Royal Blue Inanu #2
http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/188504_10150119120801699_563321698_6679046_7659738 _n.jpg
http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/189943_10150119120601699_563321698_6679042_6210899 _n.jpg

XLarge Blue #1
http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/199867_10150119120216699_563321698_6679034_174544_ n.jpg
http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/197107_10150119120051699_563321698_6679031_3126020 _n.jpg

XLarge Blue #2
http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/190307_10150119120871699_563321698_6679047_486762_ n.jpg

Large RS Green
http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/198442_10150119120651699_563321698_6679043_5933309 _n.jpg

1 more XLarge Blue to come. Camera went flat half way through shoot.

[pfeff]

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[ivo]

Your large brown is not a brown. It is a green one.

[pfeff]

Why do you say that? I'm keen to know.

[boxters]

He is right IRS a green. Once it settles into your tank it will start to show red spots. It's an rsg. Some of them don't appear to happy. It may be just the quality of the pics. Wilds don't like being moved at the best of times, but if we watch water quality over the next few weeks I think they will settle in well. The key with wilds is very consistent water quality and lots of clean water.

[pfeff]

I'll agree that some arn't happy.

These are the tank parameters.

PH 6.3
Ammonia 0-0.25ppm (was 0ppm yesterday morning, it has gone up because of the increased fish load)
Nitrite 0ppm
Nitrate 5.0ppm
KH 25-50ppm (2 drops on API KH test)
GH 25-50ppm (2-3 drops on API GH test)

Temp 29

[ILLUSN]

Lower your pH SLOWLY, and make sure your ammonia is 0 at all times, if you aim for a pH of 5.5-6.0 you'll have less problems with your wilds.

As said above stable clean water is a must, I had the best results with rain water with my wild heckles (pH 4.5-5.1 kh 0 gh 0 temp 30C) even then discus plague wiped them out whens dads tank split and he transfered all his fish into my system

[pfeff]

PH has been dropped from 6.8 to 6.3 across 5-6 days. I first started lowering the PH last Thursday night.

Ammonia will be back to 0 tomorrow night. I have meds from Marlon in there that needed to stay in for 5days without water change

[syxx]

I agree that the last pic is of a green, the yellow in the body, red spots on the bottom fin are both typical of wild greens, they are my favorite out of any discus. When they are in good water and get moody (fighting or breeding) they can become bright yellow with black stress bars, they look really nice.

[wild_amazon]

Yout large heckel is very nice.

[pignoselover]

hi there, are you still looking to sell any and if so what are you looking at