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landmineyouth

landmineyouth

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Hey guys. This is a good handfull of brackish water fish I have in my tank right now (besides the mono, soon to come). Sometimes information on online sites can be a bit misleading.

Reguarding feeding, can anyone tell me what they've had sucess feeding these fish? I bought sea-weed for the archer/scat but they don't seem to be too interested in it at all and I've tried on several occasions to feed it, with a clip and all. Thus far I've only had sucess feeding the Archer frozen and freeze dried blood worms and flake foods. The scat also eats the blood worms. I tried lettuce but again no interest.

Please list what foods you've had sucess feeding any of these species, AND any other helpful information would be nice if you have any? (age expectany, typical max size in home aquarium, habbits, etc. etc.)
 
i have 3 mono seabeas and 3 silver mono's. all around 4in. i've been feeding them regular tetra flake food and bloodworms, they've been doing fine for 4 months. they look really nice when they shoal and can even beat out my oscars when it comes to feeding time. when i first got them they actually killed one of my oscars, was pretty freaky...harassed him to death, like a convict.
 
THe archer will not pick as sea weed/ romain lettuce. THe Scats probibly will over time. same with mono.

Feed your archer floating foods like krille, crickets, etc. Archers will eat other foods too like brine shrimp, blood worms, etc. Try to get it to eat flake foods too so it gets more than just meat in it's diet. Your archer is most likley toxotes jackular, it can grow to be about 10 inches or so and dose not need brackish water as I have seen suggested.

I feed mono & scats a food that includes vegtable matter. I personally use Ocean Nutritions Formula Two. Both these guys can get pretty big, the last green scat I had was pushing 12" in diameter and was mean. It killed several fish. Both these guys would survive brackish as adults but might prefer full strengh salt water. I have seen them in fresh water but I don't know how well adults do in it. I have heard they don't fair too well in fresh as adults. They both will acclimate over to full strengh salt water very easy, even as juviniles, I have them in salt water right now at like 2 to 3 inches.

I don't know how ling they live. I've had these fish up to 5 or 6 years before selling them. I suspect they would live much longer than that though.....
 
my columbian shark's (3) would all race to catch cichlid granual's and brine shrimp before my other fish . sad though all fish even cichlid's died the heater malfunctioned and boiled fish was the resulit
 
I dont have the means or desire to turn my aquarium into a full salt water one (seeing as how it hosts several tetra's and a BGK) so im hoping that a small dose of 1tsp per 5 gallons of salt will satisfy the scat at least?
 
I can't figure out BGK (burger King? ha ha ha) If your reason for not wanting to do brackish or salt is because of your tetras, don't worry. With an archer and scats, the average tetra won't be around for very long.....

Dinner!!!!!
 
Mine seem to really like Insects, gut loaded. Krill, freezdried and frozen, blood worms freezdried and frozen, beef hart, feeder fish, and grapes. Don't ask why they like the grapes. Maybe they're just messin with me. Flakes when they are really hungry.
 
Grapes?!!!!! :screwy:

People thought I was weird feeding zuchinin and other squash to my fish. I'll have to give grapes a try :D

I forgot to mention, if you have columbian sharks, they get huge too and will eat everything in sight. I have them in full strengh salt watr that are puching 10 to 12 inches in a customers tank. Pretty cool but big and messy!!!!!
 
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