MY NEW HUJETAS (barracudas)

[TropicalFishDepot123]

i got my freshwater barracudas yesterday, they are 3 inches long. but since the LFS are closed right now i didnt get a chance to feed them. i was going to buy some guppies . but any ideas of wat i should feed them instead of guppies? (the pics are bad, i used my cell phone)

 

[freeskierrocket]

Mine eats freeze dried krill , shrimp like a frickin fatty pig fatty as well as pellets and guppies and rosies and sml goldfish and shiners...and any thing frozen!!! ..................pretty much any fish food my piggie eats......................speaking of that fatty I hope mine recovers my african cichlids did a number on him today....his tail was pretty badly chewed up........he has lived in harmony for over a year, no incidents......all of the sudden out of the blue......he getts his butt kicked????? I melafixed and salted the tank....

I cant remember if mine took the freeze dried stuff when i bought him or not , but you might need to slowly wean him off of live food (rosies most likely), or try starving him for a couple days and keep dropping the freeze dried near him......make sure you dont pre soak so the krill floats.....

good luck!!

p.s. I got mine when he was a 3 inch runt now he is 7 or 8 inches...great fish, you wont regret your purchase......

p.p.s I lost 2 smaller hujetas when i tried to add to the mix this past year....... my african cichlids are aholes!!!

i got my freshwater barracudas yesterday, they are 3 inches long. but since the LFS are closed right now i didnt get a chance to feed them. i was going to buy some guppies . but any ideas of wat i should feed them instead of guppies? (the pics are bad, i used my cell phone)

 

[messiner]

freesky....why were you mixing hujetas and africans in the first place? they need opposite PH.

their a great fish btw, nice pickup

 

[freeskierrocket]

freesky....why were you mixing hujetas and africans in the first place? they need opposite PH.

their a great fish btw, nice pickup

well he has been ther for over a year almost a year and a half with no problem or conflict whatsoever.................growing, happy fish............Ph is relative......And I've seen it done before no prob!!!

 

[messiner]

well he has been ther for over a year almost a year and a half with no problem or conflict whatsoever.................growing, happy fish............Ph is relative......And I've seen it done before no prob!!!

you just stated that your hujeta was messed up by the africans TODAY, and that you had 2 others killed by your africans.
either your keeping africans at too low a ph or keeping hujetas at too high a ph. if the africans are mauling the hujeta that remove the hujeta and put him in a tank with softer water and other SA fish, just my advice, take it or leave it.

 

[freeskierrocket]

Advice taken and appreciated ......I was just stating that this is the first time the "mauling" has happened in almost a year and a half.......................harmony for that almost 1.5 yrs.....................and it is an african tank (I buffer with seachem malawi buffer), very over filtered and aerated!! The 1 hujeta is living in an african tank ...take it or leave it! lol! kidding, thanks for the advice I will do what i have to if they keep messing with him!!

you just stated that your hujeta was messed up by the africans TODAY
either your keeping africans at too low a ph or keeping hujetas at too high a ph. if the africans are mauling the hujeta that remove the hujeta and put him in a tank with softer water and other SA fish, just my advice, take it or leave it.

 

[messiner]

sounds good, sry for derail

 

[freeskierrocket]

sounds good, sry for derail

same here, sorry TropicalFishDepot123.....your thread...try f/d krill like stated earlier and g/l

 

[Gourami Swami]

Mine is a PIG!!! It eats rosies, frozen silversides (favorite), Frozen mysis shrimp, ghst shrimp, even flakes!

 

[Pburstrom]

Whats wrong with guppies? gutload them with a high quality dry food, they should be plenty nutritious. rosies worked for me with some occasional small gold fish. never had much luck with nonliving food for them, they ignored it and let it sink to the bottom. Kept a macrobracius rosenbergiii toclean the bottm, he was great ubtil he reacked about 9" body length. After that he started climbing the driftwood to literally jump at the gars/cudas