Thinking About Getting a Jardini (What to Do?)

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Just wanted to give a little update as I have a question or two. Two weekends ago, I moved the jar, tinfoils and flagtail to a 55g that I took the fish out of. I put the tins and the jar in first and put the flagtail in later. Went away for a couple hours and the flagtail got sucked up into the powerhead. I feel so stupid and terrible for that :irked: I also added a 5" marbled goby to replace the one that died along w/ a 5" black lancer catfish. I put more driftwood in there for refuge for the shy catfish.

The problem is that the jar still won't eat pellets and started spitting out FD krill, which it readily at before. Seems like the only thing it wants to eat anymore, is FD bloodworms. The jar hasn't seemed to grow much at all since it went from 3-5 inches, while the tinfoils are. I am wondering what I should do. Should I take the tinfoils out and put something smaller in there that's less aggressive at feeding time? IDK if the tins are starting to scare the aro or what. The main reason I got the tins was to train the jar to play well with others and, so far, it hasn't shown any aggression to any other tankmates. I chose the tinfoils because I wanted something for a target fish since I wanted to put some CA/SA cichlids and the jar in my 210 to alleviate some aggression, but I don't think I'm going to try anything more than one of the jags I have and maybe a gold saum and oscar (plus the jar). What do you think I should do?
 
The tin foils are very aggressive feeders and coul dbe stressing your jar at feeding time. Also the pellets could be to hard for the jar to break up and swallow, you may try pre soaking the pellets before feeding.
 
I'm thinking I may get rid of the tinfoils and get some large tetras for now, like congos...good idea?
 
the tins are going into my mom's tank for a while, so I'm going to need something silver that's not a very aggressive feeder and that schools to put in there with the jar. I want something that will max out about 4-5 inches as I don't plan on keeping them forever (will turn out to be food, probably). wish I could afford a bunch of roselines. what should I get? i would get giant danios, but they're not silver enough and I don't want anything that is always swimming at the top.
 
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