what are you keeping them with?
I had fry and some older ones survived almost a month in nonfilterted water after katrina.
I had fry and some older ones survived almost a month in nonfilterted water after katrina.
how to keep a tex alive
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This is my third try at it this time i bought a pair male 4in female 3in last to batches i bought were around an 1in they are in a 55 by themselves filteration is fluval 304 and 2xhob 330's im feeding flakes,hikari pellets,bloodworms,freeze dried shrimp all my tanks get 40% wc weekly never missed a week in 6 yrs.They are fine now,but with the last 2 batches all goes well for 2 weeks then the die off starts...my point is that all 36 other fish i own are fine for years,but not tex.
carpinte/texas are vegies so i would feed spirilina flakes as a juvie and then grow them up on cichlid gold and a few veggies here and there.
mbunafishkeeper;1739556; said:
Keep live plants in the tank too, they'll eat and play with them all day. Anacharis works well.
Texas are my bad luck fish. I have had three adults between 7-11 inches and they have all died. No trouble with other fish, but I can't keep a tex alive.
twhittle;1740263; said:
I know other people on here have had the same problem,it has to be diet my tanks are finatically cleaned every week just bought some veggie cubes for them to add to there diet and they ate it.all the other fish spit it out
Mix in some live food and fish fillet too. Earthworms are their favorite and very healthy as well.
125 gal. tank, a really good filtration, piled rocks, bare bottom, and feed them feeders that you must keep in a separate tank for 1 month. but you can feed them pellets, that worked for me.
Clean water, varied diet....very important and include veggies like "Sea Veggies" by Julian Springs...its seaweed.
