Long story but bear with me
My roommate bought one of those walmart complete kits for setting up a 10gal tank. All 5 guys in the house went on a crazy "lets go buy fish randomly" phase for about a week and placed them all in the tank. Back home my mom is obsessed with fish so I knew some basic stuff and that buying all those fish at once without any preparation would be drastic....and of course, it was. Everyone's fish died. After their sudden "fish rush" ran out (it took about two weeks) I decided I'd step in. I did all the basic stuff like getting the correct filter, cycling the tank, testing the water, changing the water, etc.
Now I'm basically at the end of my fish knowledge. I've had a polypterus senegalus for about 5 weeks now and some other community fish that my friend talked me into getting. My bichir, Gary, has a very unique personality and is starting to get used to me when I feed him.
I need some more advice on what to do. I feed him sinking shrimp pellets and frozen beef heart and he'll eat as much as I put in the tank. I put 5 rosie reds in there once and he ate one per day. How often/much should I feed him?
Also (sorry to make this such a long post) I really love how unique Bichirs are and would like to add another sweet/unique tank mate, any suggestions? I like the "wow" factor Gary gets when people come over
My roommate bought one of those walmart complete kits for setting up a 10gal tank. All 5 guys in the house went on a crazy "lets go buy fish randomly" phase for about a week and placed them all in the tank. Back home my mom is obsessed with fish so I knew some basic stuff and that buying all those fish at once without any preparation would be drastic....and of course, it was. Everyone's fish died. After their sudden "fish rush" ran out (it took about two weeks) I decided I'd step in. I did all the basic stuff like getting the correct filter, cycling the tank, testing the water, changing the water, etc.Now I'm basically at the end of my fish knowledge. I've had a polypterus senegalus for about 5 weeks now and some other community fish that my friend talked me into getting. My bichir, Gary, has a very unique personality and is starting to get used to me when I feed him.
I need some more advice on what to do. I feed him sinking shrimp pellets and frozen beef heart and he'll eat as much as I put in the tank. I put 5 rosie reds in there once and he ate one per day. How often/much should I feed him?
Also (sorry to make this such a long post) I really love how unique Bichirs are and would like to add another sweet/unique tank mate, any suggestions? I like the "wow" factor Gary gets when people come over
. Kinda sad really....Oh well, I decided not to get myself involved until the carnage was over, now the tank is running great and anytime I have problems I can just give my mom a call and she's great at the general fish/aquarium stuff but she doesn't know anything "bichir" specific