- [Voiceover] Alright, so tell me about this tank.
- What we have here is my Costa Rican blue dovii.
He's in a 210 gallon, he's a six foot by two foot tank.
He is eventually, and when I say eventually,
we're talking within the next couple of weeks,
he's gonna get moved over into this tank down here
which is my 300 gallon, which will give him
six foot by three foot, plenty of size for him.
Here, this has worked great for him so far,
but it's time to move him above,
- [Voiceover] He's a beast.
- get him into something new.
I'd say right now he's probably pushing about 22 inches,
20 to 22 inches.
Until I get him out of the tank and we move him,
I really don't have a clue.
And as for how much he weighs, I couldn't tell you.
But you know what, I'm intrigued.
Is there a reason you gotta bite me like this?
(laughter)
One thing I wanted to note though,
that he is a Costa Rican blue.
A lot of the dovii you see out there are Nicaraguan doviis.
There is, unless you've actually owned both of them,
there is a significant difference in look
between the two fish.
- [Voiceover] Okay.
- These guys are a much taller body.
They're a little thicker, their nose and mouth
come to more of a point.
- [Voiceover] Okay.
Where I've noticed the Nicaraguans are more of a round mouth,
and they're much larger mouths,
they get a larger noddle hump from what I understand.
From what I've noticed, they're just not as tall-bodied.
I like the blues just because they just have
more blue in them as well.
- [Voiceover] There's no doubt that he's beautiful
and he's the thickest one I've ever seen, for sure.
- He's just, I mean he is absolutely,
anywhere I go in the fish room,
no matter where I'm at, he's following me
everywhere all over the tank.
He just wants to constantly bite my arm.
- [Voiceover] And so, can you get in there
and clean with him, or does he attack you?
- Nope, he's very good about that.
When I come in here, as soon as I enter the tank,
when I open the top, he's like hey,
you know what are you doing, hey,
- [Voiceover] Uh-huh.
you know, let's get out of here.
But as soon as I enter the tank,
he moves to the opposite side,
and usually he comes over here.
I go over here to start cleaning,
and he will literally just swim around my hand,
and swim that way.
- [Voiceover] Awesome.
- He just completely ignores me,
and what's really entertaining though, I find,
is this tank, if you're able to get up here to the top,
- [Voiceover] Uh-huh.
- it's broke.
- [Voiceover] Okay, yup, yup.
- And it's broke because he came up
and slammed it one day and knocked it all over the place.
So I leave it open now because it gives me a spot
to actually feed him.
- [Voiceover] Yup.
- That's his spot to feed.
I feed him over here, he doesn't come anywhere near the food.
He sees me coming over here to feed,
and it's like a little game, he comes up,
he hits the food, he takes a whole mouthful,
at the same time he flips his tail around,
he kicks up a lot of water and he splays water everywhere.
- [Voiceover] Nice.
- So it's a game, it's a daily game.
But he knows it, and that's just...
You know, I thought about getting rid of him
a couple of years back, but no, you can't.
If you want a fish with attitude,
if you want a fish with personality,
Amphilophus are one thing, but a dovii,
I mean it's, there's no comparison.
- [Voiceover] Plus, he's got you trained now.
He knows, he tells you where to put the food in.
- He's got me trained, exactly.
Yeah whatever, I got him trained.
(laughter)
He's awesome, I wish he'd let me just,
you know, let me pet him.
I wanna learn how to pet him,
but I'm afraid, he's got a lot of canine teeth in there.
- [Voiceover] He does indeed.
- And I don't know if you can see.
- [Voiceover] The raw power.
- It is, and these guys are some of the smartest fish.
So many people also will ask, well can I put a dovii
in with these guys, can I put a dovii in with these guys?
No, you cannot.
Dovii are not stupid, they will sit down,
and they will sit there and study,
study the paths, study the movement of the fish.
Though the dovii may not attack right off the bat,
it's gonna study that fish, it's gonna know
what that fish does and doesn't do,
and it's going to attack when that fish
is least expecting it.
And usually it hits him in the gut,
bust the swim bladder,
- [Voiceover] Yup.
- and then it's all over, they're gone.
They are very intelligent fish, very.
And awesome.
- Hey guys, thanks for watching.
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