Hello guys, this is my first post! I'd like to say hi to everyone!
This sounds like a stupid question but I'd much rather be safe then sorry. I recently set up a new 55g tank and I know some of these fish are too big to permanently stay but I used them to cycle the tank.
Ive got a fontosa, venustus, cuckoo catfish, a mystery chichlid which I got for 10 cents, all I know is that it's a female, two acei,a lemon jake which is too small to tell the sex, and a guppy which no one seems to bother for months and I just kept her in there for laughs, I also have a zebra obliquiden from a well known petco employee I got yesterday which was moving and offered it to me for free. Some of these fish require both meaty or veggie based foods and its hard to deliver both to the right group without them going insane for food. I've been feeding them new life spectrum so far with no problems but I vary it up and feed sea weed and small amounts of brine shrimp twice a month, I throw in some algae wafers once in a while as well but they don't seem too interested. Is there a good way to focus the carnivores away from the others? I'm still fairly new to Africans but trying to do this correctly, they have a billion hiding places in the holey rock infested tank and have aragonite sand, water parameters are perfect and I do RO water changes weekly. I must note that the frontosa and the two acei are in a separate 10 gallon as I like to watch my fish before dropping them in the 55g, the acei gave the 10g a horrible case of ick and look like they have bloat, the pet store employee told me they feed them nothing but blood worms when I came back. The frontosa has a little bit of ick but I'm salting and using meds, they look much better with the ick case but the bloat... I'm guessing they're gonners, hopefully the frontosa will fully recover.
This sounds like a stupid question but I'd much rather be safe then sorry. I recently set up a new 55g tank and I know some of these fish are too big to permanently stay but I used them to cycle the tank.
Ive got a fontosa, venustus, cuckoo catfish, a mystery chichlid which I got for 10 cents, all I know is that it's a female, two acei,a lemon jake which is too small to tell the sex, and a guppy which no one seems to bother for months and I just kept her in there for laughs, I also have a zebra obliquiden from a well known petco employee I got yesterday which was moving and offered it to me for free. Some of these fish require both meaty or veggie based foods and its hard to deliver both to the right group without them going insane for food. I've been feeding them new life spectrum so far with no problems but I vary it up and feed sea weed and small amounts of brine shrimp twice a month, I throw in some algae wafers once in a while as well but they don't seem too interested. Is there a good way to focus the carnivores away from the others? I'm still fairly new to Africans but trying to do this correctly, they have a billion hiding places in the holey rock infested tank and have aragonite sand, water parameters are perfect and I do RO water changes weekly. I must note that the frontosa and the two acei are in a separate 10 gallon as I like to watch my fish before dropping them in the 55g, the acei gave the 10g a horrible case of ick and look like they have bloat, the pet store employee told me they feed them nothing but blood worms when I came back. The frontosa has a little bit of ick but I'm salting and using meds, they look much better with the ick case but the bloat... I'm guessing they're gonners, hopefully the frontosa will fully recover.
