Sylvan
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The new Bettas are settling in well now. The ammonia is under control again, think putting some of the floating plants from my other tank in has helped a lot, and now we're in the process of finding food that they'll all eat.
My original Betta Pisces (blue and red) will eat any pellet food you give him, though he likes pulling it under so he can chase it down, but when I offered him a couple of defrosted bloodworm tonight it was a flat no and he just spat them out so the shrimps have them to enjoy.
Of the new ones Triton (red/pink and white) will eat anything and I think if I let him he'd gorge himself to death so he's being nice and easy.
Aquarius (dark one) is fussy about pellets, he'll take a couple of the Fluval bug bites and either eat them or spit them back out, let them drop to the bottom then mangle them. He won't entertain the other type of pellet I've got but he went nuts for the bloodworm.
Poseidon (white one) is the fussiest of the four, he will not eat any of the pellets, he did take a couple of bloodworm eventually but so far the only food I've found he likes is shrimplets. I found one on top of my Fluval Chi filter so netted it and offered it to him to see if he'd take it and it was gone very quickly. Going to pick up some live food to see if he'll take that.
I've got some rearranging to do in the tanks. The gaps for the water flow are narrow but they can eyeball each other through them so while the two on the outside tank have a side without an other male, Aquarius who is in the middle can see both of them so I'm going to move a couple of plants around to break up the eyeline a bit more. I've also had to put the corner of a filter media bag over the pump outlet as the flow was a bit strong for Poseidon initially but with the bag in place it's broken it up enough that there's still water flow through all 3 tanks but without him being flung round the tank. Both Poseidon and Aquarius have made bubble nests, Aquarius has gone a bit nuts with his and they're huge. Now I just need to sort out my filter/light for the 5g, the light came back on so I thought great I don't need to replace it. It won't go back off now so I'm looking for a new light and filter to replace it.
My original Betta Pisces (blue and red) will eat any pellet food you give him, though he likes pulling it under so he can chase it down, but when I offered him a couple of defrosted bloodworm tonight it was a flat no and he just spat them out so the shrimps have them to enjoy.
Of the new ones Triton (red/pink and white) will eat anything and I think if I let him he'd gorge himself to death so he's being nice and easy.
Aquarius (dark one) is fussy about pellets, he'll take a couple of the Fluval bug bites and either eat them or spit them back out, let them drop to the bottom then mangle them. He won't entertain the other type of pellet I've got but he went nuts for the bloodworm.
Poseidon (white one) is the fussiest of the four, he will not eat any of the pellets, he did take a couple of bloodworm eventually but so far the only food I've found he likes is shrimplets. I found one on top of my Fluval Chi filter so netted it and offered it to him to see if he'd take it and it was gone very quickly. Going to pick up some live food to see if he'll take that.
I've got some rearranging to do in the tanks. The gaps for the water flow are narrow but they can eyeball each other through them so while the two on the outside tank have a side without an other male, Aquarius who is in the middle can see both of them so I'm going to move a couple of plants around to break up the eyeline a bit more. I've also had to put the corner of a filter media bag over the pump outlet as the flow was a bit strong for Poseidon initially but with the bag in place it's broken it up enough that there's still water flow through all 3 tanks but without him being flung round the tank. Both Poseidon and Aquarius have made bubble nests, Aquarius has gone a bit nuts with his and they're huge. Now I just need to sort out my filter/light for the 5g, the light came back on so I thought great I don't need to replace it. It won't go back off now so I'm looking for a new light and filter to replace it.
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