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Good question, I'm focusing more on fish I can get offspring with hump heads from. We'll see next year though. What do you keep?

No, once I have fry I will.

Hi Julius, more decorations in the tank for them to hide. It's hard to catch someone if they keep going through or around stuff so fast and easy. Also, a bigger tank. If the tank is big try adding more fish to be a distraction.

@@marylandfishmadness thank you

Yeah, I'm in MD, wbu?

@@marylandfishmadness im in Northern va

@@DMVLivinn okay I’m about 45 mins from Alexandria. I have the mom for sale and the other female, I’d give away for free.

Thanks man, I hit the reset button on my tanks. I have fry and another pair trying to make more fry. I can house but so many fish. I'll try to have a 12-13 inch male again next year. Best wishes to you and our family too! From Maryland, USA

135 gallons

They sure do brother

Sure, they're already sold though. I have a pair for my dad (the parents) one pair where the male isn't so dominant and a smaller male and female. So while they fry are growing I'm still figuring it out.

Thanks Tevin. Had to take the dad out. He kept pestering Gertrude every time I came to the tank. It's like he was bossing her to handle me.

@@marylandfishmadness I understand, after the second spawn my male devil killed my female I guess he was ready to Nate and she wasn’t. Just keep them separated until you’re ready for them to mate again. And you will have to separate your larger fry from the smaller ones because the larger ones will eat them basically the larger ones going to be the males and the smaller going to be females

How far are you from Maryland?

@@marylandfishmadness Australia 👎

What size tank and how many you got in there? I got a 125gallon 3 in them

78 I appreciate you dude! For the aquaclears I used to just put a net over the intake, I have one in now for the filter nearest to them. I'll do that for the middle one next. I don't think I have extra sponge laying around, might could cut some off the ones in the filters now. I know about the algae, I've started keeping the lights on about 11 hours. I have a plant in one of the filters I could submerge that in the water, I read somewhere they'll feed off stuff on that

@@marylandfishmadness Oh you're welcome I... I know that you're no amateur I'm just throwing these out there just because sometimes it's good to bounce ideas off each other even the things we already know....... have to say I keep my fish somewhat the opposite the way but I do admire the way you got more than one pair of big midas in what I call a normal big sized tanks (120 to 150 gallon).... I tend to just keep one or a pair just avoid the drama ....but you do got me feeling like throwing a few in a 125 and let's see what happens lol ... Also I got respect although I don't know him about the way you mention your dad it very much reminds me about myself and my oldest who are also into the hobby,specifically myself and my oldest daughter which seems we have a similar relationship with these fish like you and your dad I can see🙂

Bro I should've listened to you about the filter sponge on the intakes. I went with Media bags and tried to keep the intakes from sucking the bags in with bio media at bottom of the bags. It only works for like 18 hrs. Every night I have to separate the bag from the filter. One of my filters remain with low flow even after separating the bag. I'm going to setup the sponges tomorrow when I have time.

Lol I see your comment about too many in the tank! Much love man.

For just one? Minimum 75 gals

Biggest one (Mr. Perfect) is 14 inches. The guy I got them from said 2 years old. He kept them in a pond and they grew crazy fast. I think clean water helped with that.

@@marylandfishmadness Its amazing that they grew in a pond and are living peacefully in your tank. If you don't mind how long have you housed them together and also did all your fish come from that same pond. Thank u !

@@azamkhanAK50489 I got them in August. I can't confirm how many were together. Spotty was in a tank with his girl. My father gave me the big headed female

Amphking is another fellow hobbyist that grew a community of Midas along with other species of amphilophus in his 300-400 gallon tank, He had quite the collection. Only if someone from the hobby can come up with one precise number for how many gallons would be required to grow a dozen plus full adult size midas or any amphilophus species. Keep updating us my friend 👍

Red devils have big lips (hence the name Labiatus), their body is also more narrow and their faces are less flat.

Establish the tank with siblings. Get like 10 siblings, then later add about 5 more

Thanks for answer my questions, sorry Thai see your post late. I have 17 Red Devils in a 200 gallon tank with 4 viejas. It is a work in progress. I don’t know if there are midas between them, because I catch the fishes from a lake here in Puerto Rico and the Red Devils is not a native species and they has grow out of control.

I catch at first 4 and after that I catch about 12 more. They seems to be fine, they eats a lot and are growing quickly and I like a lot my aquarium

@@acevedoaandres Ace please post a video of your tank, I'd love to check it out man

Had 9 of them since August. Got the other 2 in September.

Highly agreed. New video coming Saturday night

Hey Troy, no not at the moment. Unless you're in the DMV, I won't be meeting up.

It's in the title

Thanks Alina! I really don't want to add a 3rd filter. Reinforcements are coming, as far as another tank setup.

Spot on OC! It's enough of them they don't really get to zero in on another fish. At times that doesn't stop the beefy female from bullying the rose queen looking one

LMAO!!!! FULL BLOWN MIDAS GOOD SIR!!