Jack Dempsey not eating.
- Thread starter ozzyoscar
- Start date
True, but not all feeders have diseases...another thing that helps is to open the bag of feeders and put them in a clear bucket or tupperware and look to see if any are acting/swimming strangely or have ich or anything visable on their bodies that are out of the ordinary and remove only them before putting any in the tank to get eaten.
I don't recommend live feeders, especially at this point in the tanks cycle. All you're going to do is further foul up the water. Do you know anyone that lives near you that has a well established tank? If so, see if you can get a piece of seeded filter media from them to speed up your cycling process. As far as water changes, I'd do 2-3 small changes a week and make sure you remove as much waste as you can each time. When I feed live, I feed Convict fry I've raised, ghost shrimp and night crawlers.
I agree^^.
Just try getting some cycled water from a friend or fish store. It can even be from their water change, it will speed up the cycle.
Don't feed feeder fish, feed them ghost shrimp or frozen foods like market shrimp.
I wouldn't use prime while dosing stability other than when you change your water after the stability is done. The Stability needs the ammonia to start working and prime eliminates it, essentially.Ive used stability many times with great results. You need to actually see whats going on by testing, Skip the strips. they are very inaccurate. API master test kit is the way to go. Test and report back.You water parameters will tell a lot
I'm not dosing prime just stability bacterial thing. @Gatorxxx420 I do have a friend with an established tank, I'll have to ask him If I can have some established Biomax or something.
