New arrival, confirm ID and behaviour

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
They look much better indeed!
If you have trouble feeding them, I recently "broke" my female - that was only eating live mealworms - but offering chunks of squid. She went nuts after it and now eats from tongs. Once it took the squid, it was easy to introduce mussels and prawn.
Hope this helps
 
Scoffing bloodworm at at the moment. Took a bit of white bait as well.

They are much more active with the tank light off but the room light on.

Will need to darken out my lights on the hood somehow.
 
Now got 3 in a ball together. 2 of them keep trying to curl around the larger one which I assume is the female given the broader head. They have scared one away into the corner and it won't come out. Will keep an eye and see what happens.

Still pale today, but they are all eating well and moving about the tank, especially since I used some tinfoil to black out parts of the light source so it is now much darker.
 
It´s better to have a spare tank prepared for the rejected one (or some eggcrate to divide the tank) , if you want to save it.
Once one is singled out...
 
Will re home the one that is having issues as don't have a tank he could go in at the moment. Luckily the tank is big enough with hiding spots etc
 
They are still pale, no yellows or blues in them at all....

They are eating happily and they even come up to hand feed as soon as I open the lid...
 
All the fish are very happily hand feeding, all starting to get some nice patterns and colours on them and happily charging round the tank. More active than I thought but then again they are still young. Can't get a pic as they won't stop moving. They have gone off prawns and wwhitebait and still want blocks of bloodworm. They are still small just now so that's fair enough. Sure the appetite will change
 
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