Mine are:
1. Brick
1a. Patch
2. Kong
3. Boss
1. Now that Brick is getting huge (more on that later) so is his mess. Now he eats half his pellets then spits the others out in chunks. And of course logs everywhere, especially after a w/c and meal.
1a. I sometimes think Patch stores her mess. Poop everywhere at times even when I feed her lightly. She goes nutso at the vacuum and attacks it.
2. Kong makes 'considerate' mess...he only uses the spot furthest from his eating/resting areas. Makes cleanup easy.
3. Boss catches the chunks Brick spews out because he's too passive a surface eater (he and Brick collide over pellets). He will eat at his own pace but is my 'cleanest' fish. He will clear the sand of food.
A tactic I find works is feeding both fish in the big tank in the same area. 90 percent of the time the cleanup is there so it beats going over the whole floor of the 225. I let Brick spew chunk pieces of medium pellets for Boss since they're too big even soaked for the parrot (his mouth is smaller than Patch and Kong they wolf down medium pellets no prob).
So I basically will feed Brick until he consistenly spits chunks out and let him do it long enough for Boss to get his meal.
1. Brick
1a. Patch
2. Kong
3. Boss
1. Now that Brick is getting huge (more on that later) so is his mess. Now he eats half his pellets then spits the others out in chunks. And of course logs everywhere, especially after a w/c and meal.
1a. I sometimes think Patch stores her mess. Poop everywhere at times even when I feed her lightly. She goes nutso at the vacuum and attacks it.
2. Kong makes 'considerate' mess...he only uses the spot furthest from his eating/resting areas. Makes cleanup easy.
3. Boss catches the chunks Brick spews out because he's too passive a surface eater (he and Brick collide over pellets). He will eat at his own pace but is my 'cleanest' fish. He will clear the sand of food.
A tactic I find works is feeding both fish in the big tank in the same area. 90 percent of the time the cleanup is there so it beats going over the whole floor of the 225. I let Brick spew chunk pieces of medium pellets for Boss since they're too big even soaked for the parrot (his mouth is smaller than Patch and Kong they wolf down medium pellets no prob).
So I basically will feed Brick until he consistenly spits chunks out and let him do it long enough for Boss to get his meal.
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