Teacher fish

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Hey MFKer's i need help. im trying to get my cichla off shrimp, and on pellets. I've seen the other threads. So what kind of teacher fish should i get? I'm thinking oscar, silver dollars, or pacus. Let me know what kind, and how may to get. Thanks
 
1 had 3 silver dollars as teacher fish and dithers...they were great!
 
I've had both silver dollars and oscars in the tank when my pbass were trained onto pellets, either one would be good.
If you get silver dollars get a min of 3, they do better in groups and will be good teachers, my silver dollars now even eatthe other fishes poop LOL :eek:
 
silverdragon;2415486; said:
I've had both silver dollars and oscars in the tank when my pbass were trained onto pellets, either one would be good.
If you get silver dollars get a min of 3, they do better in groups and will be good teachers, my silver dollars now even eatthe other fishes poop LOL :eek:
lol the clean up crew. Im picken up 3 silver dollar on friday. do you think pacu would work? are they too agressive, fin nippers?
 
i have no experience with Pacus man sorry, i reckon they get too big anyways..
 
silverdragon;2418101; said:
i have no experience with Pacus man sorry, i reckon they get too big anyways..
your right, they do get big. im gona stick will silver dollars.
 
What i did was, stuff a pellet in with a shrimp. then slowly added more pellets to the shrimp then more pellets less shrimp then more pellets. i used a gold fish as a dither.... I got the pictures to prove it.
 
haynchinook334;2418137; said:
What i did was, stuff a pellet in with a shrimp. then slowly added more pellets to the shrimp then more pellets less shrimp then more pellets. i used a gold fish as a dither.... I got the pictures to prove it.

yeh ive seen that pic lol
 
anything that feeds aggressively and eats what you want the pbass to eat.
esp. when they eat the same way pbass do.
 
koo. im picken 3 up on friday. thanks
 
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