Found a nice looking 2" Gold Nugget probably L-18. Which has been placed in my 90 Gal which has the following configuration:
Setup on 11/4/06, 90 gal, 80 degrees, Corallife 65 watt 4 light 6K range on 10 hours a day 2.8 w/gal, Pressurized C02 on pH Auto-Regulator 7.0 25 ppm C02, Rio reactor, 11 degrees hardness, 120 ppm Alkalinity, Fluval 405 Canister...
Balansae, Dwarf Subulata, Tall Subulata, Corkscrew Val, Anubias Petite, Anubias Barteri, Temple Plant, Wisteria, Lobelia small form...
2 - 4" upside down cats, 5 - 3" glass cats, 1 - 4" Chocolate Pleco, 2 - 4" Silver Dollars YIKES, 7 - Rummy Nose Tetra, 8 Neons...
Run 2 airstones at night don't cut off C02 and 8 LED light blue night light.
So day 1 and I droped an airstone in her plastic holder and dripped tank water to her bag for 2 hours. pH in her water was 8.0. Once her bag water was about 50/50 (her water and mine) passed her water into a bucket and caught her in a net and set her in the tank. ZAP she went missing in the drift wood. Late that same nite I saw her moving about on a few clumps of hair algae and in some of the dwarf subulata but not actually feeding, just swimming. Day 2 she is on the glass in a dimly lit area near a clump of floating plant (near the top like 3" or so from the surface and in a pretty swift flowing bid of water) Now that she is on the glass I notice her stomach for the first time, and it is pretty sunken. I took advantage of her position and used an eye dropper to pass some small bits of Tubiflex worms over her.
She reacted to the bits by moving slightly up and down the glass but no actual feeding going on that I could see. I distracted everyone else by dropping in the larger chuncks on the far side of then tank so she was not harrased by the feeding of others. The occasional neon or rummy nose snagged a bite or two nearby, but none of this seemed to phase her.
Any thoughts on getting her to eat? or is this just a thing that will either happen or not? is my intervention a bad idea? Like I say it was just a effort of opportunity....
Setup on 11/4/06, 90 gal, 80 degrees, Corallife 65 watt 4 light 6K range on 10 hours a day 2.8 w/gal, Pressurized C02 on pH Auto-Regulator 7.0 25 ppm C02, Rio reactor, 11 degrees hardness, 120 ppm Alkalinity, Fluval 405 Canister...
Balansae, Dwarf Subulata, Tall Subulata, Corkscrew Val, Anubias Petite, Anubias Barteri, Temple Plant, Wisteria, Lobelia small form...
2 - 4" upside down cats, 5 - 3" glass cats, 1 - 4" Chocolate Pleco, 2 - 4" Silver Dollars YIKES, 7 - Rummy Nose Tetra, 8 Neons...
Run 2 airstones at night don't cut off C02 and 8 LED light blue night light.
So day 1 and I droped an airstone in her plastic holder and dripped tank water to her bag for 2 hours. pH in her water was 8.0. Once her bag water was about 50/50 (her water and mine) passed her water into a bucket and caught her in a net and set her in the tank. ZAP she went missing in the drift wood. Late that same nite I saw her moving about on a few clumps of hair algae and in some of the dwarf subulata but not actually feeding, just swimming. Day 2 she is on the glass in a dimly lit area near a clump of floating plant (near the top like 3" or so from the surface and in a pretty swift flowing bid of water) Now that she is on the glass I notice her stomach for the first time, and it is pretty sunken. I took advantage of her position and used an eye dropper to pass some small bits of Tubiflex worms over her.
She reacted to the bits by moving slightly up and down the glass but no actual feeding going on that I could see. I distracted everyone else by dropping in the larger chuncks on the far side of then tank so she was not harrased by the feeding of others. The occasional neon or rummy nose snagged a bite or two nearby, but none of this seemed to phase her.
Any thoughts on getting her to eat? or is this just a thing that will either happen or not? is my intervention a bad idea? Like I say it was just a effort of opportunity....
