I think my blue diamond is having a thing for squid.
First tried with the head with tentacles yesterday. didn't show any interest at first. My convicts were actually the first to attack those tentacles, even my oscars showed slight interest to the squid. anyway, the largest male convicts managed to drag the piece of squid to his cave so I was like damn and went to get one of those aquatic gardener thingy (if you don't know what I'm talking about, click here), when I came back I saw the blue diamond was trying to drag that piece of squid out of the convicts cave and once he did, he was attacking it like it just killed his whole family. I decided to leave him alone with the squid cuz didn't want to freak him out by approaching to the tank. Went back few minutes later only two tentacles were left and was stolen into an other convict's cave. he looked like he was full and I was happy and surprised as it was the first time I fed him dead and with great success.
I tried again today, first it was a piece of squid's body that I cut out, about 0.5" or so wide, a good 2"-2.5" long and he striked as soon as he saw it and swallowed the whold thing down, so I quickly ran back to the fridge and took out two more pieces. Same thing happened to the second piece and by the third one I think he got a little full, only ate half so I took it out.
I'm very pleased with this rhom and planning to keep him until he die of old age.
Spend a good 15 minutes or so near the tank to observe how it behave in the 180g and I'm starting to have second thought on moving it to 75g. The way he thrives in that 180g makes me feel guilty of ever thought about moving him to a 75g....now I'm really start to re think the wholde caribe shoal ideas after seeing how he enjoys the foot print of that square tank.
First tried with the head with tentacles yesterday. didn't show any interest at first. My convicts were actually the first to attack those tentacles, even my oscars showed slight interest to the squid. anyway, the largest male convicts managed to drag the piece of squid to his cave so I was like damn and went to get one of those aquatic gardener thingy (if you don't know what I'm talking about, click here), when I came back I saw the blue diamond was trying to drag that piece of squid out of the convicts cave and once he did, he was attacking it like it just killed his whole family. I decided to leave him alone with the squid cuz didn't want to freak him out by approaching to the tank. Went back few minutes later only two tentacles were left and was stolen into an other convict's cave. he looked like he was full and I was happy and surprised as it was the first time I fed him dead and with great success.
I tried again today, first it was a piece of squid's body that I cut out, about 0.5" or so wide, a good 2"-2.5" long and he striked as soon as he saw it and swallowed the whold thing down, so I quickly ran back to the fridge and took out two more pieces. Same thing happened to the second piece and by the third one I think he got a little full, only ate half so I took it out.
I'm very pleased with this rhom and planning to keep him until he die of old age.
Spend a good 15 minutes or so near the tank to observe how it behave in the 180g and I'm starting to have second thought on moving it to 75g. The way he thrives in that 180g makes me feel guilty of ever thought about moving him to a 75g....now I'm really start to re think the wholde caribe shoal ideas after seeing how he enjoys the foot print of that square tank.
