My Two Dats
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Thats a lot of shark catfishes in there? and they become brackish when old and HUGE!
Nice Dats though...
I really need to read up on what IT and AT and NGT are etc, as I only know them by there proper names
Nice Dats though...
I really need to read up on what IT and AT and NGT are etc, as I only know them by there proper names
Not a lot, I've just got two of those cats and two others: one pictus that's roughly their size, and my big ole ugly syno ocellifer that outgrew my cichlid tank that I'd like to sell (No interest yet though... not that I blame anyone. He's ugly). All four are 5-6" and are great scavengers. I think it just looks like I have a colony of them because they're photogenic and happen to spend most of their time in the same area as the new dat.
He swam around actively tonight at feeding time but didn't eat at all. Tonight's menu included pellets, bloodworms, and krill. I'm a little worried about him now.
He swam around actively tonight at feeding time but didn't eat at all. Tonight's menu included pellets, bloodworms, and krill. I'm a little worried about him now.
They both also came from Old Town. This guy had been there for a good 4-5 months. He grew a lot too, when I bought the IT the AT was only slightly larger. This week when I got him they had him stuck way up in an upper tank with some larger african cichlids because he was too mean to the rainbows in his old tank. I don't understand why noone bought him though, he was fairly priced and he's very social. Their loss, my gain.
My AT still won't eat anything other than krill, market shrimp, or feeder minnows. When I put any of those in the tank he is quite voracious and gets most of what I put in for everyone. In fact last sunday I put a dozen little feeders in and he got at least 6 of them in quick gulps.
Everyone else in the tank, including the IT, eats the usual daily diet of flake, crumbles, hikari pellets and shrimp pellets and the occasional treats of frozen brine shrimp and blood worm, and today I bought ground up krill pellets and everyone loved that too. But this guy just swims around happily as if he's going to eat, but then ignores the food.
I've resolved not to feed any of the stuff he gobbles until he learns to eat the other food... but it's been 9 days now. How long should it take before he starts accepting the other food?
I believe he always got krill at the store before I bought him, so I guess he never had to learn to eat anything else.
Everyone else in the tank, including the IT, eats the usual daily diet of flake, crumbles, hikari pellets and shrimp pellets and the occasional treats of frozen brine shrimp and blood worm, and today I bought ground up krill pellets and everyone loved that too. But this guy just swims around happily as if he's going to eat, but then ignores the food.
I've resolved not to feed any of the stuff he gobbles until he learns to eat the other food... but it's been 9 days now. How long should it take before he starts accepting the other food?
I believe he always got krill at the store before I bought him, so I guess he never had to learn to eat anything else.
