Thin Bar Datnoids Keepers thread

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This is the thread for thin bar datnoid keepers! Post some pictures of your thin bar datnoid, tell us size, tankmates, and diet.
I had two ntt and 1 indo. I sold one of my thin bar and 1 indo and I decided to keep my biggest ntt. He by far is one of my favorite thin bars. He survived a brutal bacteria infection that killed most of his tankmates, i got that in control and he is now in clean and healthy water. His only tankmate is a 3'' bala shark and will be having him some more tankmates soon. His diet is shrimp, pellets, and once every while guppies.
I'll post some new pics soon.
 
ttt...will have pics of mine tommrow..
he just ate his shrimp supper
 
I brought 5 of them like 3 week ago and ony have one left. 3 of them died from some kind of infection that only seems to affect the dats. One had Popeye and died. The only one I have left was doing ok, but I think it might also have the same kind of infection that killed the others. I hope is not though. 2 nights ago it was fine; lst night I notced something growing on the spines. This morning I looked at it and the thing has goten bigger. Are dats really the easy to get sick and die? cost me $100 bucks for 5 of them and didn't even have them for 1 month. Also treated thetank with PrizaPro - No luck.
 
pURPLEcHILLIrED123;3616963; said:
I brought 5 of them like 3 week ago and ony have one left. 3 of them died from some kind of infection that only seems to affect the dats. One had Popeye and died. The only one I have left was doing ok, but I think it might also have the same kind of infection that killed the others. I hope is not though. 2 nights ago it was fine; lst night I notced something growing on the spines. This morning I looked at it and the thing has goten bigger. Are dats really the easy to get sick and die? cost me $100 bucks for 5 of them and didn't even have them for 1 month. Also treated thetank with PrizaPro - No luck.
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How big of a tank did you keep them in? Just curious because I have two right now. Kept them for almost 2 weeks now. I hope they pull through.
 
I have it in 170 with my arowana, they are seperated. They weren't eating the whole time I got them except the one that is still alive; its eating market shirmp. I don't think its gonna make it tho. The day before the 4th one KO on me 2 days; the fins were just little infected and then boom 1 day later it just swollen like crazy and died. I have flag tail that got beaten up pretty bad by the arowana but it didn't get any infection and has healed up nicely, just the Thin Bars. Spent arm and leg for them and they just KO'd
 
Just got home and the last Thin Bar has died. Damn....pretty sad right now. When people say they just died, I didn't really believe. Now I do. I change about 20g every other day and only have the tank about 80% filled and feed it everyday. First time I own dats. Gonna try again with them.
 
pURPLEcHILLIrED123;3618016; said:
Just got home and the last Thin Bar has died. Damn....pretty sad right now. When people say they just died, I didn't really believe. Now I do. I change about 20g every other day and only have the tank about 80% filled and feed it everyday. First time I own dats. Gonna try again with them.
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sorry for your loss

:(

how big was it? 1"???

maybe buy a bigger one next time!

;)
 
sorry to hear about your loss.

similiar thing happened to me last year when i first started with dats. i bought 4 at first and a couple weeks later, slowly they started to die on me one by one with no sign of sickness except maybe from not eating. but i don't think it is from not eating bc someone mentioned that they can survine from not eat for a long time like a month or more. mine didn't really last longer than that.

i like them and so i bought some more and keep trying. they finally last like a year now. but they are still not stable which is a real challenge for me to keep them stable. i seem to lose interest in them when they are not stable. hopefully they will come around.
 
If your new to datnoids, I don't recommend getting small thinbars (2 to 3 inch).

If you done your research(simply
use the search function) you'll see that small ntt have high mortality rate in home aquarium.

If u really must buy thinbar, find one bigger than 5-6 inch, seriously.... It'll have a much better chance of avoiding sudden death syndrome.

They are one if my favourite, I too have lost 2 small thinbars a while ago.
 
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