Very cool to have a mated pair. The wife and I bred convict cichlids, guppies (but I mean, a monkey can breed guppies),
Pimelodus pictus, we attempted frontosas, but didn’t invest enough time into it, so we got ride of the six we had and bought 6 baby snakeheads instead. we were super close at breeding a pair of snakeheads but was forced to downsize their tank to less then half of what they had. The female ended up descaling the male and ultimately killing him. It would have been nice to keep them in the 120 gal, but couldn’t. That’s when we shut our last tank down.
Yes, yes it is! Even fresh water the time it takes in maintaining it is ridiculous!
Hell yes it is expensive! The wife and I always joked around, saying it would be cheaper take up smoking meth for a hobby instead. It’ll be cheaper!