Beastije
Fish Addict
Hey guys, help me out here.
First off, I am not sure I should add anything. I am not having a good time feeding these fish it seems. Let me start
My biggest tank, 360 liters, 120x50x60 cm. Have had it for 12 years or so, and remade the inhabitants in the past 5 years a few times. Remade the substrate last summer too. Now it is half in the back some clay substrate, the front is sand.
picture form the front
and the back
Pictures are pre maintenace, I have a plan today to hook the pennywort back on the sticks to not have a weird ball floating there, and I will cutt he sword leaves that are not doing well
Right now I have 4 pearl gouramis, 10 rummynose tetras, 20 or so WCMM that I moved from my other tanks, all around 2 years old lot I am shuffling around as they are super easy to catch. 3 bolivian rams, all males, waiting for some grown up females to add, but I have had them for 2 years now, had them with female that I lost last year stuck behind a heater, had them lay and guard eggs and had ZERO issues. I also have some leftover otocinclus that I have had for few years now, and around 10 or 15 kuhli loaches. Well not all kuhli loaches, at least 3 must be myersi, they are 5 times as big, different stripe pattern. They never hide, they are always wiggling around, they eat well, zero issues with other fish. Tank has a coconut cave, another cave, some wood, lot of shaded places and two flower pots with what used to be java ferns, for the kuhlies to hang around in. And they do. The plants not so much.
Last summer I bought 4 rineloricaria sp.red (red lizzard catfish I believe). I would see them ALL the time, hanging from surface plants, on the sponge filter, on the glass. But now I am down to 1 last, no idea why the othes died. Must be my feeding.
I had issues feeding bottom dwelling corydoars, that I used to have in the tank. I feed a lot of micro foods, live bbs, microworms, frozen cyclops, rotifers, mosquito larvae, daphnia. I will feed insect granulates like fluval bug bite, hikari vibra bites, micro pellets, spirulina powder. When I try any waffers, all the other fish go for them first. Even when I drop them in after lights out. I always feed a cloud and into the stream and all the othe fish seem to manage, the bolivian rams eat from near the surface, even the kuhli loaches have no issues. But not the previous corydoras, not the whiptails.
I wonder, I sometimes still want another fish. Like some sort of ancistrus. I am iffy on the english names, in here, we call them Lnumbers, there are SO MANY sold here. Not just some old "boring" brown pleco (is that the correct english name?) or a long fin, but snow, zebra, spotted. We for some reason also have a lot of panaque, like anyone has the tank size for that. Just last week at a fair I saw a 15-20 cm specimin of the green one with the blue eyes. So pretty!!
Should I get one? If yes, which one? My plants are barely holding, the swords look worse than ever. How should I feed? I will drop a vegetable once a week, zuchinni, cucumbers, leaves, there is leaf litter. I put a broccoli in yesterday that is now stuck under the branches and full of kuhli loaches, all the otos hower nearby. Rummynose love spinach.... I will occasionally drop in a small piece of fruit, just for fun.
I managed to take a picture of the loricaria that must have died recently, two weeks ago it changed color to white. Seemed ok otherwise, behaved fine, but the color... and now there is only one in the tank
Yes I know about the algae. I have to buy a new eheim filter output green spray bar, that costs so much money for no reason. To be fair I think I have had this one for the whole 12 years.
Thanks!
First off, I am not sure I should add anything. I am not having a good time feeding these fish it seems. Let me start
My biggest tank, 360 liters, 120x50x60 cm. Have had it for 12 years or so, and remade the inhabitants in the past 5 years a few times. Remade the substrate last summer too. Now it is half in the back some clay substrate, the front is sand.
picture form the front
and the back
Pictures are pre maintenace, I have a plan today to hook the pennywort back on the sticks to not have a weird ball floating there, and I will cutt he sword leaves that are not doing well
Right now I have 4 pearl gouramis, 10 rummynose tetras, 20 or so WCMM that I moved from my other tanks, all around 2 years old lot I am shuffling around as they are super easy to catch. 3 bolivian rams, all males, waiting for some grown up females to add, but I have had them for 2 years now, had them with female that I lost last year stuck behind a heater, had them lay and guard eggs and had ZERO issues. I also have some leftover otocinclus that I have had for few years now, and around 10 or 15 kuhli loaches. Well not all kuhli loaches, at least 3 must be myersi, they are 5 times as big, different stripe pattern. They never hide, they are always wiggling around, they eat well, zero issues with other fish. Tank has a coconut cave, another cave, some wood, lot of shaded places and two flower pots with what used to be java ferns, for the kuhlies to hang around in. And they do. The plants not so much.
Last summer I bought 4 rineloricaria sp.red (red lizzard catfish I believe). I would see them ALL the time, hanging from surface plants, on the sponge filter, on the glass. But now I am down to 1 last, no idea why the othes died. Must be my feeding.
I had issues feeding bottom dwelling corydoars, that I used to have in the tank. I feed a lot of micro foods, live bbs, microworms, frozen cyclops, rotifers, mosquito larvae, daphnia. I will feed insect granulates like fluval bug bite, hikari vibra bites, micro pellets, spirulina powder. When I try any waffers, all the other fish go for them first. Even when I drop them in after lights out. I always feed a cloud and into the stream and all the othe fish seem to manage, the bolivian rams eat from near the surface, even the kuhli loaches have no issues. But not the previous corydoras, not the whiptails.
I wonder, I sometimes still want another fish. Like some sort of ancistrus. I am iffy on the english names, in here, we call them Lnumbers, there are SO MANY sold here. Not just some old "boring" brown pleco (is that the correct english name?) or a long fin, but snow, zebra, spotted. We for some reason also have a lot of panaque, like anyone has the tank size for that. Just last week at a fair I saw a 15-20 cm specimin of the green one with the blue eyes. So pretty!!
Should I get one? If yes, which one? My plants are barely holding, the swords look worse than ever. How should I feed? I will drop a vegetable once a week, zuchinni, cucumbers, leaves, there is leaf litter. I put a broccoli in yesterday that is now stuck under the branches and full of kuhli loaches, all the otos hower nearby. Rummynose love spinach.... I will occasionally drop in a small piece of fruit, just for fun.
I managed to take a picture of the loricaria that must have died recently, two weeks ago it changed color to white. Seemed ok otherwise, behaved fine, but the color... and now there is only one in the tank
Yes I know about the algae. I have to buy a new eheim filter output green spray bar, that costs so much money for no reason. To be fair I think I have had this one for the whole 12 years.
Thanks!
