pbass questions

[vnzlnboardguy]

my first question is that sometime i see my fish breathing hard, specially when they feed or get spooked. im not sure is its a problem or not but i want to make sure. second question is how long can my 3-4 inch fish go without eating? i have been trying to get the off of live food and i can get them to eat dead anything aslong as its fresh but they wont eat dry krill. i can trick them to eat it but then they always spit it out and advice.
-arturo

 

[haynchinook334]

First Q: Add more air in the tank.
Second Q: feed them as much as you can till they hit the 8'' mark then convert.

Q to you....what kinda bass you got?

 

[Venom SS]

i can trick them to eat it but then they always spit it out and advice.
-arturo

Getting them to even try to eat it is a good start! Keep "tricking" them into eating the prepared foods. They may spit it out but keep trying. Eventually they will eat it.

 

[vnzlnboardguy]

thanks for the help. i have 4 monos all from the same fry. but this brings me to another question. when doing water change how much water is too much water to change at a time and how often can i change that much. for now i do 25% once a week but im concerned it might not be enought to keep up with the fish's eating and bio load.

 

[tscharf]

you should be fine with that, ive heard of people doing 50% once a week

 

[digger]

Sorry to derail but I'm thinking about getting some pbass not sure what kind yet but I have a 120 runnin right now and a 210 that will be up and runnin in about a year. how many could I put in the 120 right now for that duration and is the bio load really that bad? Oh yeah filtration is 2 ac110 and 1 xp3.

 

[vnzlnboardguy]

the bio load for me is pretty bad because i have 4 pbass in a tank that i dont even wanna say wut size. also i feed all day long whenever im bored and pass by my room i have a pretty much endless supply of feeders for now and i love watching them eat. but in ur case with a 120g and an up coming 210 u can do plenty. im not sure how much because they grow pretty big pretty fast but u should be able to have some fun with it.
-Arturo

 

[digger]

the bio load for me is pretty bad because i have 4 pbass in a tank that i dont even wanna say wut size. also i feed all day long whenever im bored and pass by my room i have a pretty much endless supply of feeders for now and i love watching them eat. but in ur case with a 120g and an up coming 210 u can do plenty. im not sure how much because they grow pretty big pretty fast but u should be able to have some fun with it.
-Arturo

So I could probably do about 4 I'm guessing thanks for the info I need to read up on them some more.