Im half way into a project: "my long term holding tank for my CA's".Today I notice since I have been keeping my oscar, zonatus and 1 grammodes in seperate 45g rubbermaid totes for the last 2 weeks until I came up with another idea to house them. My oscar would be the only fish out and about 55% of the time the others hiding. Well today I moved them into a a 40g inorder to remove the bulkheads from the rubbermaid tote to install on the 250g plastic tote. and after a minute both the zonatus and grammdes are out swimming around.
Before all they did was hide eveytime anyone came near their totes, now the just hold their postion even if I tap the glass.
Is this because the could not see throught the plastic, but can thru the glass? Should I paint the sides of my new holding tank black or dark blue to resemble a pond affect? I have heard that fish are naturally afraid of things above the water, but fish in pond hang out near the top.
Anyone with a reasonable answer please respond. Im almost done with setting up the plumbing next is the let the water cycle hopfully im not headed in the wrong direction with this.
Before all they did was hide eveytime anyone came near their totes, now the just hold their postion even if I tap the glass.
Is this because the could not see throught the plastic, but can thru the glass? Should I paint the sides of my new holding tank black or dark blue to resemble a pond affect? I have heard that fish are naturally afraid of things above the water, but fish in pond hang out near the top.
Anyone with a reasonable answer please respond. Im almost done with setting up the plumbing next is the let the water cycle hopfully im not headed in the wrong direction with this.
