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Fozz

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Hi everyone

Well I recently bought 4 red devils(Midas Fish) from the wollongong auction and unfortunately am down to 1 sadsmiley02.gif but thats all good however I am New to these fish and am just wondering if anyone could give me an insight to them or recommend a good site to visit.

also my devil at the moment is about 4cm long could anyone tell me how long it will take to become full grown with the huge cranal hump ( I love the ones with the pink face and white bodies they look unreal with there huge hump).

Thnx

Fozz

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Gday,

the devil i have has taken 16months to get from 2 inches to about 9 inches.

A great site with heaps of info on the red devil is www.reddevilfish.co.uk

Its a privately run site, and has all the info you will ever need on red devils, its very well put together.

HTH, Alan.

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mine are about 5 months old now and the 2 biggest are about 10 cm long and these 2 currently have a nest of eggs and on day 3 you can just see the babies inside the eggs they dont seem to be bothered by the other fish in the tank but they never leave the eggs unattended one of them is always there

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In my experience they grow fastest in the first 6-8 months.

Mine is a full grown male with a gigantic hump and is whitish pink all over although depending on mood he sometimes darkens to a bright pink. He has very long dorsal and anal fins. He's 4 y.o. and is 34cm in size.

Great fish.

Nick

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what happen to the others thats a good question due to my inexperience with this species of fish i housed them in a 1ft tank and not realizing how aggressive these are at such a young age my remaining one felt the need to assert its dominance by effectively killing the others

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