Big shake up underway, and OMG those Panda Garra’s are tiny…

[Ram419]

I was just doing a water change, using a small filter pump to refill from a bucket.

Oh, ha! I know they like the water flow a lot.

 

[Magnum Man]

Panda’s still doing great… honestly can’t believe the Tin Foils don’t eat them

Battle for the cookie..

 

[Back in the fold]

Also, baby panda garra are adorable. Hope the big guys leave them alone. I've never kept silver dollars but I hear they aren't particularly predatory.

Silver Dollars are very cool fish but they need a big aquarium and quite a few of them to show well . Nice big well grown Silver Dollars in a big school are a sight to behold . They will eat all your plants to a nub however .

 

[Magnum Man]

Actually my silver dollar tank is half full of Java ferns ( literally half, as it’s acrylic, and my only covered tank, because of the Bichir… I have several tanks with Java, and when babies break free, and get stuck to the filter intake I wrap a small piece of leaf free solder around the runner, and drop them in one side … the other side has plastic plants) there are 2 access doors on the top… biggest silver dollars are just over 4 inches , and so far they have left all those Java ferns alone???

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Actually my silver dollar tank is half full of Java ferns ( literally half, as it’s acrylic, and my only covered tank, because of the Bichir… I have several tanks with Java, and when babies break free, and get stuck to the filter intake I wrap a small piece of leaf free solder around the runner, and drop them in one side … the other side has plastic plants) there are 2 access doors on the top… biggest silver dollars are just over 4 inches , and so far they have left all those Java ferns alone???

I used to keep a few tinfoil barbs in a planted 55g. They ate everything, including several huge amazon swords, right down to the gravel. But even they left the java ferns alone. That is a very tough plant.

 

[Magnum Man]

Panda baby and hillstream sharing the driftwood… 3rd picture shows 3 pandas, and a Denison barb

 

[Beastije]

Lovely! I myself have 7 of them, bought 4 first, 3 later. The newer one took almost a month to fully color up and I didnt realize how large my initial ones were after 7 months. They are adoable, mild but not timid and I have huge gaps in glass and they never even once attempted to climb out. They know I feed from there so they will hang out there, nibble on feeding tubes, on my fingers, but zero attempts to escape

and yeah, the hillstreams will chase them out, but like "shoo" nothing aggressive so same experience

 

[Magnum Man]

Guessing the pandas aren’t nocturnal at all, at least as babies I don’t see them until several hours after the lights are at full brightness… Hillstream’s on the other hand, even the real small ones, several are working the glass, at 1st light