Interesting new super easy way to feed Repashi… especially to your aufwuchs eaters

[JackGulley]

I use repashy every now and then but I've never really gotten it to stick to something. Maybe keeping it warm is the secret? I never encountered a stage where it was a consistency that I could "spread". I think I'll try it again soon to see if I can get it to work.

 

[Magnum Man]

it jells up pretty fast, I've been preheating the bowl with hot water, & I've found that if I use a bigger bowl on the outside with an inch of boiling hot water in it, & set the bowl that I'm mixing in, inside, that it keeps it liquid long enough to get 3 - 24 inch sticks painted all the way around

 

[Magnum Man]

Zebra Oto and Gold Nugget Pleco lunching on a Repashi stick today… most everyone love the Repashi

 

[Magnum Man]

I may want to rough up the surface some of the plastic bamboo, I’m using for Repashi sticks in the Asian tank… it stays on until the bubbles take it off in large sheets, which everyone eats any way… if they are small enough pieces, the Tin Foils eat it, if It’s larger sheets, it’s available for all the smaller Hillstream’s… the lizards and the Pandas are aggressive enough, they eat it off the sticks

 

[JackGulley]

How do you keep the non-algae eater fish from forging themselves on the repashy? I have that problem; any amount that’s enough for the otos to spot is enough to make the platys rotund.

 

[Magnum Man]

Pretty much everyone eats it… it’s actually become one of my Zebra Lace Angels favorite foods… by putting it on the sticks, it helps me regulate the amount of food, and spreads it out on more area, than just putting in chunks … if I had your problem, I would probably thin it down a little, and put it on the sticks thinner, and feed it to them more often… right now my tanks get Repashi about once, or maybe twice a week… if I were putting it thinner on the sticks, it would still be the same surface area, but less food, then I’d feed twice a week, or every other day

 

[Magnum Man]

Trying something new for my Asian tank… ( the picture above with the plastic bamboo sticks ) that tank currently has 20 pieces on long emergent lucky bamboo, and those match perfectly with my background… the plastic bamboo sticks don’t… I think I’m going to band 4 pieces of long lucky bamboo together to form a stick, which will match the bamboo already in the tank, and on my background, then I’ll apply the Repashi to these live banded bamboo sticks… it’ll take a little while to get the extra bamboo here, but look for pictures in the future…
I just don’t like that the plastic bamboo doesn’t match anything in the tank

 

[Magnum Man]

Look at this fat lil belly… this is my 2 year residency Zebra Oto… hasn’t had any Repashi for a week, so it looks healthy

 

[JackGulley]

Here’s one of my thicc bois. Happy otos make me happy . When I got them they were very skinny, as you can see in this picture

 

[MaloK]

Aquaria is the most complicated hobby... It encloses at least 11 sub-hubbies that I could think of my head.

Bringing the richest most inviting environment is the target of the host...

And see, how the guests appreciates.

 

[MaloK]

Yeah, A bit like you... I think of fish keeping as personally sponsored mini billionaires parties.

 

[Magnum Man]

Well. I didn’t like how the plastic bamboo pieces were working, they didn’t match the decor as well as I had hoped, and the Repashi didn’t stick to it very well, and fell off in sheets, when the fish started eating it… so, since this is my bamboo water garden tank, I’m trying something new, that I did in another tank… I replaced the plastic bamboo, with 2 bunches of live lucky bamboo ( actually 3 stalks bound together with green silicone binders ) that are hung on hooks, and appear to float, their roots about 4 inches off the substrate… I’m experimenting with some different weights, to keep them vertical… the leafy tops above the water, and the tough stalks below the water… I think the stalks will hold up to the application of the Repashi, and the fishes eating it off them, they blend in perfectly with the decor, as there are already 20 stalks of emergent lucky bamboo in this tank… since this is my Asian tank, there is a big variety of Hillstream Loaches in this tank, so, I’ve been trying to do 2 sticks of Repashi, at each feeding…

This is one of the 2… I’m thinking the Repashi will stick better to this natural material, and the stalks will hold up to its use

 

[Magnum Man]

… and they blend in perfectly to my background
Fingers crossed they hold up to their intended use

 

[Magnum Man]

 

[JackGulley]

Do your hillstreams sit on the bamboo often? I love my lucky bamboo for the way it looks but I almost never see the otos/shrimp interacting with it. It seems like the smooth, slick surface just doesn’t grow that much biofilm?