Oh! Fahaka!

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You dont have to worry about teeth so much at this stage, but if you cant use a quality pellet then you're defeating the purpose of getting one pellet trained. Youd be much better served imo crushing small snails, using nightcrawlers, & soaking seafood medley in vitachem.

If you value both I'd separate sooner than later. Your talking about fish that slide through flesh like butter. If they start going after one another they're going to inflict serious damage. I'd keep the most unique one. Either one will be super personable with some size and it would be better if it wasnt scarred up. Just my 2c

Heres some quick info on beaks

Yeah I've already made arrangements for 1 of them this week.
The pellets will be baby steps. I just want them to recognize pellets as food. I have some northfin and spectrum but it won't eat those yet. I'm feeding daily right now. They also get spirulina brine shrimp,black worms, a little frozen blood worms, baby snails which I do crush. The one will and can eat super small ones the other that eats the pellets won't even try without crushing. My crayfish haven't produced babies in a little while if I had babies I'd feed those too. I've split off a male and a couple females into sperate tanks to hopefully spark some breeding again.
These guys are really small not sure if you can tell they are about an inch long tops. And they have almost doubled size since I got them. I have tons of baby snails so I was hoping they would eat more snails. It seemed they were having trouble with them the first day or so which is when I read that article saying the don't form beaks until later in development. So made sense why they didn't just crush the snails up.
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Regular ramshorns breeding container during water change.
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Giant ramshorns breeding container during water change.
No current pics of the crayfish breeding.
 
Wow that one really scarfs up the food while the other seemed a bit confused that he could pick them up from the bottom. ?

Thanks for posting the video, I enjoyed it. Also didn't realize they were that small.
 
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Wow that one really scarfs up the food while the other seemed a bit confused that he could pick them up from the bottom. ?

Thanks for posting the video, I enjoyed it. Also didn't realize they were that small.
The one won't eat the pellets yet. It will try one every time I drop some in but won't eat them. They are both pigs they love food. I hope the one that eats the vibrabites will eat other pellets eventually and I can stop worrying about crayfish I'll probably keep the snails going though. I can get frozen swimming crabs for a different selection once it's big enough to eat adult crayfish. If I could get away with not feeding live I'd enjoy that too.
 
Great you were patient and the little Fahaka is eating. The little puffer is a pretty fast swimmer.
Oh yeah he's zippy. Maybe that's what I'll name him! I thought he was going to bite me the other day he came flying across the tank and did a circle around my hand. Scared the crap out of me! I don't know how I kept my hand in the tank? I don't want to teach him I'm worried about him biting me. I figure if I don't respond he won't think it odd to have me doing stuff in the tank.
I tried a couple guppies in with him the other day. He killed one with in 20min. So no other fish :nono:.
 
Oh yeah he's zippy. Maybe that's what I'll name him! I thought he was going to bite me the other day he came flying across the tank and did a circle around my hand. Scared the crap out of me! I don't know how I kept my hand in the tank? I don't want to teach him I'm worried about him biting me. I figure if I don't respond he won't think it odd to have me doing stuff in the tank.
I tried a couple guppies in with him the other day. He killed one with in 20min. So no other fish :nono:.

Yeah definitely be careful. The Fahaka will probably become your favorite. ?
 
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Great you were patient and the little Fahaka is eating. The little puffer is a pretty fast swimmer.
I guess my post messed up a bit.....lol
He has always eaten good ,one of the reasons I kept this one. Pellets have been slow to get going but he's a trooper he will try anything I offer. If I offer it enough so far he will eventually eat it. I'd love to be able to supplement his diet with pellets of some kind for his whole life. I don't know if it would be possible as his only diet maybe it will be crunchy enough? But I think snails and frozen crab will be on the menu too.
 
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