reed fish

[Boggnials]

I have a few questions for the veteran aquariests with sand.
1) I have a reed fish and I want to know what to feed it? I have tried to give it feeeder guppies. I dont really know what to try. I guess I could try really really small feeder guppies.
2) I have sand in my tank and I was wondering what plants I could put in the tank to make it look peretty, but not overgrown. Correct me if I'm wrong but I was told that i need to get plants that get nutrients from thier leaves because I have sand. Is CO2 really benifical to the plants life?
3) I wanted opinions on how to make caves with rocks. I think the look would be cool but I have never done it. What would I need to use to bond the rocks together?


~Boggnials

 

[drobbins27]

1.No idea what a reed fish is

2.Yes get plants which get nutrients through the leaves. Yes,CO2 is very benficial

3. Use slate, stack its. If you want to bond it, use aquarium grade silicone which u can find at your LFS

 

[Dwarfs]

Plants take in co2 and we take in o2 (oxygen) animals and humans breathe in o2, and give off co2. Plants take in co2, and give off o2. It's all part of coexistance. (and my science teacher drilling it into my brain )

 

[Boggnials]

I have a correction in the name of my fish. my fish is a ropefish. i dont know what to feed it.

 

[Boggnials]

any one have a suggestion on what type of plants to get.

 

[Genero]

I have 2 ropefish and they eat anything meaty, such as: brine shrimp, blood worms, beafheart, krill, mussels, raw shrimp, silversides.

I hand feed them because they don't find food as quickly as the others. My advice is to use a feeding stick and don't feed pieces that are too large for them to swallow. They can choke.

Also, I think guppies would be too fast for your ropefish to catch. They typically find their food by smell.

 

[nick.w]

Hi, when u buy shrimp and mussels are they from the food stores, forzen?? and doesnt beef heat make the tank bloody and that, just i have a bichir and not to sure what to feed it apart from blood worms

 

[Genero]

Yes, the raw shrimp, squid, mussels, scallops all come from my grocer. It's much less expensive to buy frozen fish food than krill and such.

I rarely feed my fish beaf heart but when I do, I purchase it from my LFS. I don't buy it from the butcher because I don't want to trim the fat and the visceral lining away from the meat (can probably ask your butcher to do this and grind the rest up). It won't pollute your water, just keep it frozen and throw in small chunks when you're feeding.

Bichirs do well on a diet of raw shrimp, krill, live black worms, earthworms (or red wigglers), beef heart, squid, etc. It took my ropefish several weeks to finally accept foods other than beefheart but they now eat anything I place in front of them!