Just an observation about micros

[jelly]

I always feed my fish slowly one or two chunks at a time as that is one of the most entertaining parts of keeping the fish.

Do you breed your guppys or buy them as and when required. I have a stubburn Black Wolf and I am considering setting up a molly or Guppy type setup to produce some food.

 

[Neervana]

I always feed my fish slowly one or two chunks at a time as that is one of the most entertaining parts of keeping the fish.

Do you breed your guppys or buy them as and when required. I have a stubburn Black Wolf and I am considering setting up a molly or Guppy type setup to produce some food.

i bought about 200 guppies from wildwoods and just threw them all into a separate tank, the guppies from wildwoods are the only ones that i would consider parasite free and healthy so i have them breeding now. in the meantime i have rosy reds and zebra danios that i give to them whilst all of my fry are still growing. i load up the guppy fry with quality flake - like tetra colour, pro veg, JMC micro pellets and on the day im going to feed them to my SH i load them up with frozen bloodworms i've stopped trying to tease my micros by slowly dropping in small quantities of food because last time i did that i nearly risked one jumping out of the tank onto the floor! they seem to go into this *attack mode* when they see food and it takes mine a while to calm down after. like they start swimming incredibly fast and take really sharp turns! its really fun to watch but i get worried incase they knock themselves out haha

 

[jk41589]

I have had no success feeding mine with pellets. It wouldn't learn from my crazy kois. They are separated by plastic fence though. I only had success feeding my giant some boiled meat(chicken, beef, pork, fish). mine is now at 17" or so. I can't keep up with measuring because he keeps growing fast!

My turtle did learn to eat pellets by watching my goldfish feast on pellets.

 

[Neervana]

I have had no success feeding mine with pellets. It wouldn't learn from my crazy kois. They are separated by plastic fence though. I only had success feeding my giant some boiled meat(chicken, beef, pork, fish). mine is now at 17" or so. I can't keep up with measuring because he keeps growing fast!

My turtle did learn to eat pellets by watching my goldfish feast on pellets.

nice!!! have you got any pics for us? i always want to see SH lol.

 

[tcarswell]

Very neat fish ! Wish we could get them here

 

[jk41589]

here's the link to the pics i posted a few months ago. i don't know how to show the link that will show you directly to my post.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2814&page=25

i'm very excited to see mine grow to more than 2'.

 

[Neervana]

here's the link to the pics i posted a few months ago. i don't know how to show the link that will show you directly to my post.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2814&page=25

i'm very excited to see mine grow to more than 2'.

very very nice cant wait for mine to reach that size! i'd say another few months and they'll be there.

 

[jk41589]

I know. They grow like there's no tomorrow and you can actually see their growth in just a week without a ruler!

 

[Neervana]

I know. They grow like there's no tomorrow and you can actually see their growth in just a week without a ruler!

i know!!! wish i had their growth haha then i wouldnt be so short

 

[MaverickG13]

Hmmm when I had my old koi pond I threw some straitas in there, and they converted to pellets pretty fine. That didnt stop them from nipping on the koi's fins though.