Plants, Algae, Nitrogen, Carbon

[Lady J]

Yeah keep it to 6 hours for the first couple of weeks I'd say. So glad you finally found them! Just wait until you've had them a while and they get all fed up nice. Their colours will be stunning!

Thanks for your help--AGAIN. Yes, I've been keeping the lights off till later in the day so that I can watch/love/monitor my tank after work.

It was so great about the espei's. I had asked my LFS to order some and he couldn't find any so I got the rummynoses. Well, those didn't work out and the store let me return them. At that point I decided to just have the betta and 6 corys for a while and let everything get settled. Then yesterday the store called because their supplier sent 150 espei's. Alrighty, back to the store I went to buy 8 of them which seems to be a good size school for my tank. I'm very excited! They've only been in my tank for ~3 hours and are swimming together and starting to color up. I can't wait to see them grow and really color up! And, what do you feed yours? Anything special for them?

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

I've got quite a mixed variety in my tank so I feel all sorts (which they gladly steal) but they will be fine with flake and the occasional live/frozen food Mine get frozen (but defrosted) food twice a week.

 

[Lady J]

When I had my marine tank I only fed frozen food (well, once in a great while I used flake, but rarely). What type of frozen should I get?

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

They will eat anything TBH but bloodworm is always a fishy favorite. I also feed brine shrimp. Daphinia is highly recommended as well but none of mine seemed to like it

I've been trying different things so I'll probably buy something else next time I'm shopping for some. My LFS do a mixed frozen food which seems interesting - like a buffet for my fish!

 

[Lady J]

They will eat anything TBH but bloodworm is always a fishy favorite. I also feed brine shrimp. Daphinia is highly recommended as well but none of mine seemed to like it

I've been trying different things so I'll probably buy something else next time I'm shopping for some. My LFS do a mixed frozen food which seems interesting - like a buffet for my fish!

Yum, a buffet.

 

[stu40]

Tetra Prima Mini Granules

 

[Alm0stAwesome]

Oh! I didn't even know it existed in a mini form, i'll need to check that out