Help with baby endlicheri's
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if bichirs are more difficult to find in sweden then it's a good deal. as for the substrate I keep mine on bare bottom and my bichirs are doing great.
maybe others can chime in, but in my experience delhezis (atleast mine) love to have some sort of covering. so i have a bunch of plastic plants and pot pieces and dels love to hide under them. if you want substrate you should shoot for sand because they can hide that way. also stick to some high quality sinking pellets. maybe try hikari or omega one. good luck i like endlis too!
maybe others can chime in, but in my experience delhezis (atleast mine) love to have some sort of covering. so i have a bunch of plastic plants and pot pieces and dels love to hide under them. if you want substrate you should shoot for sand because they can hide that way. also stick to some high quality sinking pellets. maybe try hikari or omega one. good luck i like endlis too!
antimony;4210946; said:
I've read allot and gotten allot of good oppinions aswell, so this is what im gonna do.
A very small amount of sand (just for the bakteria 2 have somethin 2 stick on) this will be taken out from my big tank with good bakteria. I will also create hidingplaces with flat rocks (plates) so they have "roof" over their heads and some plastic plants of some sort -that was a good idea.
But i will not give em hiding places were they can "dissapear" because that would be really booring for me and i want them 2 get use 2 being out in the open at the same time.
Yea im gonna use (sinking) hikari as base food then give them bloodworms, artemia and fish. But i guess that i'll need 2 have the hikari in a glas of water first so they get soft and then maybe split them in half aswell. What sucks is that we dont have hikari carnivore or massivore in swe, we just have the standard cichlid gold but it works i guess.
They will go in 11g for a month ½ then in the 30g.
Im gonna make this like an "experiment" it will be cool 2 see how the dif species behave, their growing rate, eating habbits and so on. So i hope 2 get alot of experience out of this
Thx for the help and support guys, i get the first ones on thursday and the rest this friday. Cant wait
your plan sounds good.....i would say go bare bottom easier for maintenance but everything should work out fine....endlis are always hunrgy and some can grow really fast while others slow from what i've seen
Gobrian44;4211490; said:
True maybe i should go bare bottom but this is how i think:
Whats best ?
sand = good bakteria that balance the biology in the water
no sand = easier 2 clean and thats about it
Or wont a small amount of sand make any difference, what do u guys think? I will use 2 pumps in the tank but non of them have alot of filtermass so i cant expect 2 much from the pumps
Yea, some grow faster than others but i hope they all grow fast and in the same paste (which wont happen
), im just scared that 1-2 will grow to fast then maybe hurt/eat the smaller ones. I read somewere that canibalism is normal when they are juvenile, true?Hi Amaro
I have the same problem in South Africa that i can only get small polyterus. I have two tanks currently with small poly's that i am growing up. I find having a tank without any sand works well becuz of the clearing every day/other. i do a 50percent water change, Also wen i had sand in the tank cloudy eye set in. I currently am growing 10endi's,2ornates,2albino sen. I have had good results this way, i have endi's which doubled there size in a month.
I have the same problem in South Africa that i can only get small polyterus. I have two tanks currently with small poly's that i am growing up. I find having a tank without any sand works well becuz of the clearing every day/other. i do a 50percent water change, Also wen i had sand in the tank cloudy eye set in. I currently am growing 10endi's,2ornates,2albino sen. I have had good results this way, i have endi's which doubled there size in a month.
Divasen;4222182; said:
Cool
thx for sharing m8 were in the same boat u can say hehe.Well i went with a very small amounth of sand even tho everyone said that i should go bare bottom
and some small rocks n stuff. I tested without substrate but i didn't like the looks of it at all lol. Im a bit picky i guess. Nice 2 hear that its going well with yours m8, i just got my load of pollys and damn was i lucky. I got very nice specimens and bigger than i expected aswell. Even my LFS was a bit chocked because they very very rarely come in these sizes
5 Endys are between 4-4.7"
2 delhezi are 5.9"
ornatipinnis is 4.7"
and the 2 albino senegals are 3.1" (very small)
So its grejt, they all eat good aswell so i hope that they will bubble their size in just one month just like your specimens
Plz do post some pics of yours if you can, would be fun 2 take a look
and BTW what are you feeding them and how offen?TomioEndlicheri;4222253; said:So any pictures amaro?
I have taken some pics and posted in my swedish thread, im gonna try 2 post here, i dont know how 2 but im gonna try figure it out.
Btw, not a single one of the juveniles has external gills just like i expected but the good thing is that the five endys still have a little bit of it left, looks like the external gills recently fell off so thats good news if im right about it. Hopefully they aren't older than 4-5 months.
Btw, the pictures are very bad quality and the small tank they are in right now is plastic and it makes the water look clowdy.
Im gonna try now, in worst case ill just post the link 2 my swedish thread were there is some pics.
