Lost the planiceps to some sort of swim bladder issue. He appeared healthy one day then doing barrel rolls the next. A couple days later he was basically immobile and unresponsive but lived a few more days. Passed sometime on the sixth.
RTC continued doing poorly and barely eating. I added salt at a low concentration to the big tank in hopes of helping the planiceps, and the RTC again responded poorly. I found him floating the next day. Upon inspection I found that he had almost no fleshy gill tissue and it was almost entirely black. Two cats in less than a week, sad times. So far all other cats in the big tank seem perfectly healthy, but I'll be watching them like a hawk for any signs of illness or changes in behavior.
Megalodoras is in my koi pond for the summer. The 120 he was housed in to grow out busted a bottom seam so I'll be doing my first acrylic repair shortly. The stand allowed too much sag toward the center so I'll be reinforcing that and resealing the tank. Pond parameters are excellent and temps are plenty warm for the next few months. I've been throwing sinking pellets in for him after the other fish get fed and the rosy reds have been multiplying like crazy if he feels like catching any. Eventually he should be going with my other cats, but he's a slow grower so it'll be a little while. I was mostly concerned about the planiceps or RTC trying to eat him, so depending on everybody's size when I pull the mega out of the pond he may be ready to move in then.
Current measurements for my cats are approximately 11" TSN, 10" RTCxTSN, 9" o. niger, 5" m. irwini.
I'm working on getting the TSN to take pellets. He's an absolute pig when I feed fish but doesn't touch pellets yet. I haven't fed anything but pellets for a couple weeks, no food for a week then a small amount of pellets for the last few days. Niger pigs out, hybrid takes a few but isn't overly interested, TSN ignores them completely. TSN is built like a tank and doesn't appear to be losing weight so no worries yet. I'll probably start giving him a couple fish every two weeks if he keeps resisting.
RTC continued doing poorly and barely eating. I added salt at a low concentration to the big tank in hopes of helping the planiceps, and the RTC again responded poorly. I found him floating the next day. Upon inspection I found that he had almost no fleshy gill tissue and it was almost entirely black. Two cats in less than a week, sad times. So far all other cats in the big tank seem perfectly healthy, but I'll be watching them like a hawk for any signs of illness or changes in behavior.
Megalodoras is in my koi pond for the summer. The 120 he was housed in to grow out busted a bottom seam so I'll be doing my first acrylic repair shortly. The stand allowed too much sag toward the center so I'll be reinforcing that and resealing the tank. Pond parameters are excellent and temps are plenty warm for the next few months. I've been throwing sinking pellets in for him after the other fish get fed and the rosy reds have been multiplying like crazy if he feels like catching any. Eventually he should be going with my other cats, but he's a slow grower so it'll be a little while. I was mostly concerned about the planiceps or RTC trying to eat him, so depending on everybody's size when I pull the mega out of the pond he may be ready to move in then.
Current measurements for my cats are approximately 11" TSN, 10" RTCxTSN, 9" o. niger, 5" m. irwini.
I'm working on getting the TSN to take pellets. He's an absolute pig when I feed fish but doesn't touch pellets yet. I haven't fed anything but pellets for a couple weeks, no food for a week then a small amount of pellets for the last few days. Niger pigs out, hybrid takes a few but isn't overly interested, TSN ignores them completely. TSN is built like a tank and doesn't appear to be losing weight so no worries yet. I'll probably start giving him a couple fish every two weeks if he keeps resisting.
