The Hi-Fin is still with us, and actually I'd say it looks a bit better; the vague cloudiness of the tail fin seems lessened. Colours seem a bit more contrasty and "brighter".
As far as eating goes, well...not sure how to describe it. When food is introduced, the fish immediately becomes active...but doesn't seem to eat any. In fact, if a food item drifts down right in front of it, it can swim right over the thing without hesitation. But finally today, I saw it going over the surface of the driftwood much as a pleco or other algae eater would. It seemed to pay special attention to the tufts of Black Beard Algae with which I am "blessed"
. Can't really say that I could see any sign of the stuff being eaten; perhaps the algae hosts some especially tasty variety of biofilm?
The fish has those great big puppy dog eyes, and can clearly see me in front of the tank, but it completely ignores a drifting or stationary food item.
Ivan's fish is no more active than mine, and I have convinced him to add some driftwood with algae to his tank, but he also has not seen it eat. His fish is housed with three goldfish much bigger than it is, so it has competition...and it really isn't competing. My fish's Swordtail tankmates are all a bit smaller than it is, so not at all threatening, and I think that is helping.
Interesting little fish, for sure. I'm feeling more optimistic about its chances today than I was only a couple days back.
As far as eating goes, well...not sure how to describe it. When food is introduced, the fish immediately becomes active...but doesn't seem to eat any. In fact, if a food item drifts down right in front of it, it can swim right over the thing without hesitation. But finally today, I saw it going over the surface of the driftwood much as a pleco or other algae eater would. It seemed to pay special attention to the tufts of Black Beard Algae with which I am "blessed"
. Can't really say that I could see any sign of the stuff being eaten; perhaps the algae hosts some especially tasty variety of biofilm?The fish has those great big puppy dog eyes, and can clearly see me in front of the tank, but it completely ignores a drifting or stationary food item.
Ivan's fish is no more active than mine, and I have convinced him to add some driftwood with algae to his tank, but he also has not seen it eat. His fish is housed with three goldfish much bigger than it is, so it has competition...and it really isn't competing. My fish's Swordtail tankmates are all a bit smaller than it is, so not at all threatening, and I think that is helping.
Interesting little fish, for sure. I'm feeling more optimistic about its chances today than I was only a couple days back.
