Bronze CatFish

[Wit]

Ok just put last couple of fish in tank, well 2 bronze catfish. The lady in aquarium shop gave me instructions on how to feed them with sinking granules. She told me to feed flake first then granules as some of the other fish in tank will take the granules aswell.
Ok some of the fish took some(granules that is) and the rest sank(not loads). My question is how long are granules ok sitting in the bottom of tank until catfish eat them and how will I know enough is getting to the bottom for them to eat ?

 

[ncjharris]

Hi!

Do you mean bronze corys?
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=95845

We have panda's, and although we add pellets, some seem to get 'intercepted' by the gouarmi's and danio's. However, they have thrived in the three months we've had them, so I think they have no problem with the food they're getting

Food that sits on the bottom (flakes, granuales, pellets, whatever) will breakdown and pretty much rot. It becomes part of the nitrogeon cycle, like fish waste, and is what contributes to your nitrAtes.

If you are regually cleaning your tank with water changes and vacuuming the bottom you should be ok - corys will avoid anything that they don't want to eat anyway!

 

[Wit]

Hi!

Do you mean bronze corys?
http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=95845

We have panda's, and although we add pellets, some seem to get 'intercepted' by the gouarmi's and danio's. However, they have thrived in the three months we've had them, so I think they have no problem with the food they're getting

Food that sits on the bottom (flakes, granuales, pellets, whatever) will breakdown and pretty much rot. It becomes part of the nitrogeon cycle, like fish waste, and is what contributes to your nitrAtes.

If you are regually cleaning your tank with water changes and vacuuming the bottom you should be ok - corys will avoid anything that they don't want to eat anyway!

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At the moment I am on a weekly water change as long as a few granules a day aint going to mess about with the water too much an they seem fine then all will be ok I guess.

thanks

 

[ncjharris]

No probs.

You should be fine with your current regieme - but make sure you test the water regually to make sure you don't have any problems.

 

[-cAtFiSh-]

i think the maximum time for sinking pellets to be in the tank is about 2 hours before they...'rot'

 

[Wit]

Just done my weekly water change so I will monitor it more closely this week and test my water to make sure things are all ok. My last water test in shop(23/09/05) everything was spot on. So just a case of monitoring and learning a bit more about the catfish and feeding.

 

[yvez9]

How long you can leave them depends on the quality of the pellets.

I find the Nutrafin pellets bloat very fast (about 5-10 mintes) and start to break up with the water current.

The Omega pellets last forever, so do the Hikari pellets.

I have lots of bottom feeders in my 50 gallon so I just put about 2-3 algea tabs and maybe 10 or so pellets. Everything is eaten in about 15 minutes.