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Hendre

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So I met someone today, a professor at a university closeby and man was it awesome. Guy knows his stuff, has been keeping fish since 68' and started in Germany, now lecturing and doing biochemistry and genetics here in South Africa. He also imports high quality foods from Germany and I was lucky enough to get some from him! He's tested all of it extensively in his own fishroom and is very well known and popular in the hobby here :)

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So we have 200g of brine shrimp granulate, high protein, very soft and rich in amino acids for growth.

2 bottles of plant foods, developed by him 26 years ago for use in our water and extremely popular with serious aquascapers here

Sp1 and sp2, very fine foods for my tetras and also good fry foods.

Then EPA/DHA food, high in fatty oils and protein too, developed for growth

And lastly frozen euro bloodworm and white mosquito larvae as treats for my fish and conditioning :)

This guy was awesome, discussed studies with him as well as many fishkeeping concepts and tips which I will share soon! (Including nitrate coils)

This is an improvement for me for sure! :D
 
That is great Hendre. With that background and experience level I am sure he has a wealth of knowledge to share. I can't wait to hear more about your conversations with him.
 
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That is great Hendre. With that background and experience level I am sure he has a wealth of knowledge to share. I can't wait to hear more about your conversations with him.
I'll be putting it up later :)

The powder foods are amazing for my tetras, it's awesome. I started conditioning 2 glowlight females yesterday now that I have proper food :)
 
The effects are starting! My bigger fish really love the brine shrimp granules and all took it straight away with gusto, tight bellies all round.

The tetras are loving the powdered foods, my 2 seperated females are getting heavy feeding and they are already really swelling. This should get my breeding going :)
 
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You're a lucky guy Hendre, be sure to take notes and get the most out of it... a lot of people wished they had friends like that in this hobby...
 
Thanks, the guy is awesome :)

Measured up 5 grams of all the powder foods and 18 grams of BBS pellets. Rest goes to the freezer, it's more fresh than other stuff and won't last long otherwise15070447827621942059962.jpg
 
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