Dovii

[jacksonjones402]

i have a question i have a dovii its almost 3" i cant tell if its male or female on its gills its gold little circles and on the tips of its fins are turning blue i wld take a video but my dovii is so dam hyper i cant get a good video so please if you can help im thankful for any or all ur advice

[GearsOscar]

is that lil covict on a suicide mission?

lol......nice dovii...

what do you think of me getting a dovii to put in a 170 gallon tank

with a jag?

plz reply

[mudfrog]

@GearsOscar Yea the convict had fry but was killed shortly after. I think if you add a Dovii your Jag would probably eventually get beat to death

[GearsOscar]

@mudfrog lol,ive bought a flowerhorn instead and

im gonna add a red devil aswell when i get my 170g

[jjgreen74]

gorgeous fish, love the aquascape.

[mudfrog]

Thanks, he was one of the best looking Dovii I've seen. Sadly I lost interest and sold him.

[SkOpEd13]

@mudfrog How the hell do you get bored of the king of cichlids? I think a 120 would have been fine for a long time unless it grew to be 24 inches in like a year which aint guna happen

[mudfrog]

@SkOpEd13 I dunno.. I just got tired of one fish in a 120. I knew he'd need a larger tank eventually so I sold him and the tank to someone local. Sadly he died a few months later.

[SkOpEd13]

@mudfrog Eventually as in 4 or 5 years

[mudfrog]

@SkOpEd13 Nah, much sooner than that. He was over 10" when I sold him. A 10"+ open water predator needs a longer tank than 48". Within a year he would have been over 14".

[alexandrosmar]

BEAUTIFUL SETUP

[DrewNutts]

i got a new video of some gold costa rican dovii breeding pair. check out my youtube site!

[rmy2728]

lol that is one funny little fish that try to get at the dovii when it has it back turn. It look like a convict cichlid or maybe a jew cichlid. It was so fast to catch it

[HarlanAshmore]

awesome tank

[kent2478]

:59* i mean

[kent2478]

dam awesome tank man, but what the hell was that little crazy fish that tryed to sneak attack the dovii at 1:07

[mudfrog]

The current in the tank is very strong. I'm using a 2400gph pump. They are open water predators. From what I have seen their habitat is typically sand and rocks. I have changed the tank around since this video. He swam into the stump injuring himself so I removed everything except for a couple rocks.

[1redarmy1]

Yeh the one i had before used to love the rock caves...i have sand n soft gravel in my tank,the cichlids seem to like it..as my fish grow i will remove some wood too..to give them more swimming space..my dovii is very young so they are all cool for the time being...in a year or so i would like to get a much bigger tank.

[1redarmy1]

Cool i just assumed that by the set up of yr aquarium that you were mimicking the dovii's natural habitat..ive read somewhere that the fish comes from slow moving backwaters..i had one a few years back and although i had a strong flow in the tank, the dovii preferred to dwell in the more still end of the of the aquarium.

[1redarmy1]

Nice clean tank! i see you havnt bothered with a airflow other than the bubbles you are gettin from the external filter...do you have a reason for this?

[mudfrog]

I have a wet / dry filter running with this tank. It uses a drip tray and provides more then enough oxygen to the tank.

[blacknblue92]

what size tank is that?

[Thodsters]

i hate that waste sits on top of great looking sand!

[mudfrog]

Yea thats a disadvantage of sand.. but at least it's easy to clean :)

[supaflywilkins]

You get to have even more with youre fish tank cleaning it !

[CHUCKYCASPER]

nice tank nice clean conditions and georgeous fish love the music more on this one ;)

[youngbloodkennels]

Yo that tank is a serious work of art!

[mudfrog]

Thanks young blood.. it'll look a lot better when the driftwood sinks :D

I've changed it around a little but overall it's the similar.