I have had 2 Pictus living in a 55 gallon for a little over a year now. The biggest is a little over 4 inches, the smaller is maybe a little less then 3.5 inches, hard to tell because they never sit still.
I have read a lot of places they get territorial as they get older, and maybe 2 is not a good number. They have never fought, but for a long time, the smaller one was always so skinny. It was clear who was getting all the food. But I started to feed after lights out and the little guy started to get his share. Since they have been living together in peace so long, do you think there is a good chance they will continue to.
They dont hang out together and they each have their own favorite hiding spot in the tank.
Tankmates are 1 Uaru, and one Orange Seam Pleco, and they all get along.
Also how much is too much for feeding? I recently tried feeder fish for the first time, and I thought there were too little because they did not touch them with the tank light on. But the next morning when I turned the lights on all 20 minnows had disappeared.
Each catfish had a swollen belly, so how long will that last them? Like If I put feeders in once a week would that be enough. I have read its best to keep them a little hungry because they will over eat if you let them.
Before I had been giving them shrimp pellets every 3rd day because I found that by the end of the second day they had lost the swollen belly. The same thing with the feeders after a few days the belly was gone.
I have read a lot of places they get territorial as they get older, and maybe 2 is not a good number. They have never fought, but for a long time, the smaller one was always so skinny. It was clear who was getting all the food. But I started to feed after lights out and the little guy started to get his share. Since they have been living together in peace so long, do you think there is a good chance they will continue to.
They dont hang out together and they each have their own favorite hiding spot in the tank.
Tankmates are 1 Uaru, and one Orange Seam Pleco, and they all get along.
Also how much is too much for feeding? I recently tried feeder fish for the first time, and I thought there were too little because they did not touch them with the tank light on. But the next morning when I turned the lights on all 20 minnows had disappeared.
Each catfish had a swollen belly, so how long will that last them? Like If I put feeders in once a week would that be enough. I have read its best to keep them a little hungry because they will over eat if you let them.
Before I had been giving them shrimp pellets every 3rd day because I found that by the end of the second day they had lost the swollen belly. The same thing with the feeders after a few days the belly was gone.
