ok, ive got several tanks that have minimonsters in them so i got a 90 gallon tank just to keep feeders in, my monster tanks include a central/south american 125 gallon setup with two salvini's three jack dempseys, three pictus catfish, two black convicts (breeding pair) and a low grade flowerhorn.
a 125 gallon setup with 6 longear sunfish (5 males and one female) along with a couple blacknose dace and a northern hogsucker
and a 65 gallon tank with 6 texas cichlid juvie's about 40 convict juvie's and a couple native fish such as two red eye'd rock bass, and 5 or so other small sunfish, the largest fish in the tank is a 1.75" texas cichlid except for a 10" common pleco.
now onto the feeders dying.
2 days ago i purchased 8 dozen red rosies, in 2 days atleast 4 dozen of them have died, i check the tanks twice a day and feed about a half dozen of them to my sunfish, the sunfish enjoy these feeders, but im preplexed as to why they keep dying, i let their bags float in my water for an hour before slowly merging some of my tank water into their bags over a 30 minute period.
still yet alot of them die.
last week i got 3 dozen bait fish from the local bait and tackle store, i was alittle scared to use them cause they were in blue water, but anyway i put them into my 90 gallon tank (its fully cycled by the way) and i would loose 6-10 of them a day.
im just not sure whats really going on here, are the rosies just a easily killed species, or the creek minnows?
i just dont have a clue whats going on with them all.
matthew
a 125 gallon setup with 6 longear sunfish (5 males and one female) along with a couple blacknose dace and a northern hogsucker
and a 65 gallon tank with 6 texas cichlid juvie's about 40 convict juvie's and a couple native fish such as two red eye'd rock bass, and 5 or so other small sunfish, the largest fish in the tank is a 1.75" texas cichlid except for a 10" common pleco.
now onto the feeders dying.
2 days ago i purchased 8 dozen red rosies, in 2 days atleast 4 dozen of them have died, i check the tanks twice a day and feed about a half dozen of them to my sunfish, the sunfish enjoy these feeders, but im preplexed as to why they keep dying, i let their bags float in my water for an hour before slowly merging some of my tank water into their bags over a 30 minute period.
still yet alot of them die.
last week i got 3 dozen bait fish from the local bait and tackle store, i was alittle scared to use them cause they were in blue water, but anyway i put them into my 90 gallon tank (its fully cycled by the way) and i would loose 6-10 of them a day.
im just not sure whats really going on here, are the rosies just a easily killed species, or the creek minnows?
i just dont have a clue whats going on with them all.
matthew
