Hepsetus Odoe coming next week! Tips?

[johnnytaboo]

Nitrates at 3ppm ??? What testkit measures less than 5ppm yet higher than zero ? heck my reef kits can't even do that. Did you mean 30ppm?

Sorry. To be honest, I'm more of a "guage the color" guy. Guess I never paid enough attention to the actual numeric values. I'm pretty sure you're right; regardless, the water conditions are $h!tt!er than I thought.

You might try tossing some other fish in with them so when the other fish start eating they do too.

I picked up a half dozen from Tom and all ate on day 2 after watching the Bala sharks eat.

Freeze dried Krill in the filter output is your best bet to get them eating.

Your test results would have me doing small waterchanges several times a day. I'd expect this to be the cause for them not eating. Odoe are very hardy fish and not hard to get eating or converted to floating/frozen foods.

I've had probobly 15+ Odoe. Never had issues with any tankmates and the only fatalitites have been from jumping out.

I am on top of the water changes now. I work long hours, but I've been doing 25% changes every night since I found out. I had a few rosy's in their tank, so they could eat when they felt like it, and I noticed 2 were gone last night headbang2). Water conditions still aren't good though.

Thanks again for the input everyone. Good to know these fish are tough SOB's, especially since I seem to have messed up in assuming their tank was fully cycled.

 

[Archer33389]

Yea, They're definitly pretty tough fish! If you can, I would suggest putting in some floating plants like someone else here said. I'm fairly sure mine would have been happier with them but I can't because there's too much current in the tank. And as you probably know, MAKE SURE THAT TANK IS COVERED! ha. I'v lost 2 out of 4 to not sufficiently covered tanks. Regardless, they are really cool fish! congrats!