You and your indo craze.. lol

[gangster]

These little guys are growing! Eating live tubifex all day...big bellies and they still went to town on some frozen brine

 

[gangster]

what are you guys feeding your juvi it?

 

[Tigriuns™]

here mine

 

[stevenrox]

saw this in another post......

sorry for your loss. Know how you feel. Recently I'v lost 600 pcs of 1 inch indos just because one bottle of oxytetcrcylin dropped accidentally to the tank, making the tank water very yellow and causing my tinny datz became died bodies. Same as you I was about giving up this hobby but I think Im too far in loving this hobby and cant stop just because something rarely happened. Keep on keeping this beauty

600 out of the wild....dead....AT LEAST

 

[flamenco-t]

Fish in captivity usually have lesser chance of survival than in the wild. 100% of the cause can be contributed to the fishkeeper. Careless things that we do can cause a completely wipeout, even if the fishkeeper is carefull at 100% of what they do, people's interests are usually shorter than the livespan of a fish itself.

Dats lives a very long time, oer 10-15 years, but I seriously highly doubt that 90% of all the dat keepers keeps them for more than 5 years. Peoples's interests and liking change from time to time. The sad thing is that after they get bored, the fish are passed on to another keeper whose the mortality rate increases again for the fish.

And the cycle continues...Very few ppl have the capabilities (space, time and money) to keep this fish for a very long time. Very few ppl have proved them, but most of hobbyists simply only have 1 or 2 out of the 3. Unfortunately it takes all 3 to keep any fish alive.

Stan

 

[FishArt]

Good input guys. I was planning on getting a couple Indos, but haven't cause I still haven't done my research on them. Maybe in a few months I'll be ready to get some and they'll be plentiful and cheap.

 

[gangster]

okay....what are you guys feeding em?

 

[flamenco-t]

bloodworms and blackworms, they're eaiser to digest at that size. Once they hit about 2-3". I'll start with chopped shrimp and smelt.

I had my 3/4" - 1" from 2 years ago. They get to be about 3-4 in about 7-8 months. Right now, they're about 8-10"

stan

 

[sostoudt]

Fish in captivity usually have lesser chance of survival than in the wild. 100% of the cause can be contributed to the fishkeeper. Careless things that we do can cause a completely wipeout, even if the fishkeeper is carefull at 100% of what they do, people's interests are usually shorter than the livespan of a fish itself.
Stan

i seriously doubt that(except for some specific species). the death rate of young fish in the wild is very high.

 

[flamenco-t]

i seriously doubt that(except for some specific species). the death rate of young fish in the wild is very high.

Yes, BUT the death rate in captivity in the hands of amateurs are greater.

The law of nature allows a certain percentage to be loss during their young lifes to predators, but, the overall survival rate is still greater than in the hands of humans. This is a simple law of nature.

Think of ALL the endangered species if human factor had not been included.

Stan