I recently cleaned out my 55 gallon, left in 1 pleco and bought a new Saber Tooth Barracuda. (Scientific name is Hydrolycus scomberoides)
He's a really cool predatorial fish and i have a seperate 10 gallon tank which i keep his food in, for now guppies. The store told me to feed him about 2-3 a day.
He is about 1 inch in length and i have one portion of the tank where i put some heavy vegetation and he likes to hang out there, the other side has a large hollow tree stump where my pleco seems to be all the time and a small cocanut hut.
My issue is i dont think he can actually get the guppies, i have a feeling the tank is too big. I pushed over some guppies and he came close to catching a few but they would swim off and he would just go back to his hiding place as if he was waiting for them to swim by again.
Knowing guppies they usually hover on the surface in some secluded corner and arent exactly too active in the tank, it is day 2, i have put in from yesterday and today a total of 7 guppies. Today I found 5 guppies still alive, i managed to force one over to the guy and he actually ate it.
I know he ate 1 confirmed but the others i cant tell, knowing the guppies they can be hiding anywhere. My question is should i be concerned with this? perhaps put him in a smaller tank before he gets to 2 inches and can eat some larger bait?? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
On a quick note, this morning turning on the lights i saw him on the other side of the tank, hovering over the tree stump looking downard. SO he seems to move around at night.
I am aware he will need a larger tank later on, and am going to invest in some powerheads in about 2 months time when he gets a little bit bigger.
He's a really cool predatorial fish and i have a seperate 10 gallon tank which i keep his food in, for now guppies. The store told me to feed him about 2-3 a day.
He is about 1 inch in length and i have one portion of the tank where i put some heavy vegetation and he likes to hang out there, the other side has a large hollow tree stump where my pleco seems to be all the time and a small cocanut hut.
My issue is i dont think he can actually get the guppies, i have a feeling the tank is too big. I pushed over some guppies and he came close to catching a few but they would swim off and he would just go back to his hiding place as if he was waiting for them to swim by again.
Knowing guppies they usually hover on the surface in some secluded corner and arent exactly too active in the tank, it is day 2, i have put in from yesterday and today a total of 7 guppies. Today I found 5 guppies still alive, i managed to force one over to the guy and he actually ate it.
I know he ate 1 confirmed but the others i cant tell, knowing the guppies they can be hiding anywhere. My question is should i be concerned with this? perhaps put him in a smaller tank before he gets to 2 inches and can eat some larger bait?? Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
On a quick note, this morning turning on the lights i saw him on the other side of the tank, hovering over the tree stump looking downard. SO he seems to move around at night.
I am aware he will need a larger tank later on, and am going to invest in some powerheads in about 2 months time when he gets a little bit bigger.
