Who’s Dat new guy? IT beginnings.

[Matteus]

So fat-ee-oh is still doing well. Love watching it “hunt” the mysis shrimp. He picks a target and swims past everything very abruptly and snatched up the target. Then looks for new prey. I swear he isn’t this fat everyday, I just seem to like to take photos when it looks like he’s about to burst. Lol

 

[islandguy11]

Looking good Matthew (despite the temporary 'dad belly' lol) And it appears he has a Flagtail buddy like my NTT (though it's kind of a one way relationship ) Does the FT follow him around?

 

[Matteus]

Haha. Funny enough the ft mimics different fish depending on the day. But more often than not I see datio chase the ft right across the length of the tank into the bushes.

 

[krichardson]

LOL datio,I love their zigzag attack movements.It's something we miss when we have them on pellets.

 

[Matteus]

datio is enjoying his new home in the 120. Here he is with a mouthful of chopped smelt tails.

I still have not been able to figure out how to make my sump efficient so there is always crud flying around right now so I don’t take many photos yet.

 

[Rob909]

datio is enjoying his new home in the 120. Here he is with a mouthful of chopped smelt tails.

I still have not been able to figure out how to make my sump efficient so there is always crud flying around right now so I don’t take many photos yet.

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Try a filter sock with a finer micron. I don’t know if that means the number is larger, or smaller, but it will pick up more of the free floating stuff.

 

[Matteus]

Fatio is still doing well. He’s now able to take much larger chunks of shrimp so seems to be growing a bit faster. Not sure if it will ever really take pellets. Just watched them go by every day so he only eats 1-2 times a week when I put shrimp in the tank.

 

[Galantspeedz]

guess just have to be patient, once you are comfortable, try only feeding him once a week.
I managed to get a 10" , a 8" and a 7" dat on pellets this way

Now all 3 are eating hikari cichild gold, algae wafers and fish meat every feeding.

in fact, they choose the alage wafers over shrimp meat... but love the fish meat.... bones and all