Great vid! Mine were hopefully not watching or they'll expect shrimp for dinner too. Ya know, I've never even thought of using tweezers (or forceps) for frozen foods. I use fingers in the tank or thaw in a dish of tank water & dump some in. I'm not good at plant tools either, lol.
My river-ish tank w/sarawaks needs a big val & moss weeding. They mill around in the plants instead of schooling. There's always been a couple that didn't hang with the others but now I can't tell. They seem fine with the low end of their temp tolerance & often like to play in the flow.
Your barbs look great too, such vibrant red males. How many do you have now? I didn't notice any females but there was lots of activity. Nice to see you little rainbows brave the rowdier feeders.
Just so others know, I got my sarawakensis after seeing Cass's pretty fish. I had to ask around to find them. Apparently, their common name is blue line rasbora, but I asked LFSs to look the Latin name up to be sure (I hate common names sometimes). I love many different rasboras. I hadn't seen these before, but I guess they not new to our hobby. Mine were small & more plain when I got them, but they've grown prettier. We love ours.
I got the 2 boys that were seen in the video and then 3-4? females that are left, they're blind though and don't take food from the top. They get food where it falls on the ground lol
Looking like she's had better days, but still robust and strong for an 8 year old. She's always been missing that pectoral fin though. That's not new. Boys may be bright but nothing beats the colors of the females, imo. They remind me of autumn. Little touches of brown and red among the orange.
My sarawaks are all over. Sometimes hanging in a group staring me down for dinner around 8pm, sometimes chasing each other around the tank, maybe one or two will hang out away from the others. They have attitude, but not in a damaging way.
I'm trying to locate more trigonopoma pauciperforatum, but hard to find around here. I have one lonely guy I got as a bycatch.
I'd like to keep those with the sarawaks going forward. The pseudomugil shouldn't last another year, I'd be floored if they did, and the cherry barbs, I'll probably have the boys a bit longer, but 8 years is already really good age for these guys. Afterwards it'll just be the 2 rasbora-trigonopoma groups and the pangio loaches. I like this mix. The sarawaks may be one of my favourite schooling fish I've ever had, I'll be sad afterwards if I can't find more in the far future after this group
Oh, and those were my scaping tweezers, I am allergic to shrimp, so i avoid touching raw shrimp where I can. Normally I just plop 2 cubes in and let them float and scatter on their own, the fish attack them like sharks and it goes everywhere. But someone on YouTube requested an updated video of the sarawaks, so figured this would be the best way to keep them in the shot while not scattering everywhere or food going.
