Rainbow Shark

[noclueman]

I bought a rainbow shark a week or so ago and I noticed that he often "sucks" on plants and the walls of the tank.

he's not actually an algae eater is he?

I haven't gotten an algae eater yet because I can't deicde what kind to get, but if this rainbow shark is going to keep the tank clean himself I just wont get one.

Anyone know?

noclueman

 

[Da_Oz]

Recommended Diet. Flake Food such as Tetra's TetraMin. Perhaps some sinking food pellets but be careful because uneaten food will soon spoil and pollute the water, so be sure to always use a small net to remove uneaten food after 10 minutes.

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But if you have less than six sharks, they'll begin to quarrel, and the weakest ones will be miserable. So if you keep Rainbow Sharks, keep one or keep several, but don't keep just a few together.

Rainbow Sharks are beautiful, energetic, hardy, and rather aggressive to other Sharks, but not quite as aggressive as Red Tail Sharks. Most sharks are not aggressive to other types of fish. So sharks make good tank mates for many types of fish. But as mentioned above it's best to have just one Rainbow Shark or one Red Tail Shark in an aquarium, or more than six, but not just a few.

 

[Paradise_Gourami]

i have a rainbow shark and he eats falling flakes and sometimes eats them right of rht surface

 

[noclueman]

Do you ever see him sucking on the walls of the tank? Or sucking on the leaves of plants?

 

[Da_Oz]

Rainbows and red tail sharks eat algae. My RTS eats my driftwood, can't say I found anywhere that says they need wood but mine sure likes it. But yes they will eat on algae in the tank. Not really a algae controler thoe.

 

[ryan]

Omnivorous, some vegetable matter is required in their diet as well as more meatier foods like bloodworms. They will except most foods ranging from commercailly prepared flakes to live foods. Sometimes they will also graze on algae.

 

[xXMrBonesXx]

Rainbow Sharks are beautiful, energetic, hardy, and rather aggressive to other Sharks, but not quite as aggressive as Red Tail Sharks. Most sharks are not aggressive to other types of fish.

that statement is false from my experience other then they're pretty, unless mines just a big ole meanie

mine will attack anything it feels like when he sees fit, when i have been watching it will chase my cherry barbs, Dalmatian molly and on certain days my gouramis

they get nastier and nastier as they grow, I've read and noticed that with mine

my RS eats off of rocks and grabs sinking shrimp pellets when they get dropped in

very nice fish but they need space due to they can become aggressive

 

[Storm]

My albino rainbow shark has been with two bala sharks and a pleco since day one. I have never had any problems at all with her. I've never seen her sucking on the walls of the tank but she "rivals" the pleco for the algae discs I give him. Surprisingly, he's somewhat tolerant of her and I've even seen the two of them eating away on one together.

 

[ketyana]

Mine recognised nothing other than cucumber as a food source, but then it also avoided the cave I brought for it like the plague and 'sun bathed' on the filter so I think it was bumped to hard into the glass as a egg and had some mental deficit

 

[Da_Oz]

Rainbow Sharks are beautiful, energetic, hardy, and rather aggressive to other Sharks, but not quite as aggressive as Red Tail Sharks. Most sharks are not aggressive to other types of fish.

that statement is false from my experience other then they're pretty, unless mines just a big ole meanie

mine will attack anything it feels like when he sees fit, when i have been watching it will chase my cherry barbs, Dalmatian molly and on certain days my gouramis

they get nastier and nastier as they grow, I've read and noticed that with mine

my RS eats off of rocks and grabs sinking shrimp pellets when they get dropped in

very nice fish but they need space due to they can become aggressive

If you read that is says MOST sharks are not. But every fish tank is different. What one fish does in one tank does not mean it will do it all.