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February 20th, 2008
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| I think another one of the females is about to die, The water parameters are fine and all the other females are coping just fine, but this one is secluding itself a lot. I also starting feeding the fish whole baby freshwater shrimp crushed up, I do this daily with the regular flake food. They eat it fine but I noticed one of the female barbs is a bit swollen, I don't know if this is from eggs or the food. How often should I feed them the shrimp?
Sorry for the filter noise, it seems like companies that supply filters and air pumps need to have silence as one of thier features. | 
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February 20th, 2008
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| Hi!
Do the shrimp once a week. It pollutes the tank more than flakes.
Pearls are shy fish - you need to keep thehide aher time. She should come out in the end - and don't expect her to play at the front 24/7. the idea of this tank was heavily palnted, with Cherry barbs at the front, a BN sucking on a large centeral piece of bogwood and a pair of beautiful Pearls creeping around the plants, sometimes coming out to play at the front. My Dwarfs sometimes hide at the back.
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February 20th, 2008
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| Cool, the idea part is kinda like a commercial, and btw when I said female I meant barb, my pearls are doing great. I have been feeding bloodworms once a week, but I didn't realize that the shrimp were pollutants, well now I just need to incorporate some veggies into the weekly meal plan, anything recommended other than peas for my fish?
P.S. It was fun feeding the shrimp so often the fish go nuts when I crumble those shrimp husks into the water. I'll miss the daily excitement, also I got one of the danios out of the tank and into the shrimp tank, but the other is impossible to catch, I don't want to try for to long as it will stress my other fish. | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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| Hi!
The female Cherry is probably the shy one. Worth watching her, though. Cuccumber is a great veggie for fish - it's best fed to plecos and when you get a BN you should do it around 3 times a week. When are you getting your pleco, anyway? If you like, and wouldn't mind not having an algae eater - then you can get a Queen arabesque pleco. It's carnivorous, and will mean no cuccumber, but amazing patterns. If you can find a Clown or Flash pleco - he should eat algae like BN but with a nice pattern. Have you got your bogwood sorted out for your pleco yet?
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February 22nd, 2008
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| I would love a queen abaresque thet look so cool, The thing is I can't find anything other than common plecos. My current LFS keeps promising bristlenose shipments every week, the thing is when I come in on weekends the shipments never came in. I know for a fact that the chain stores in my area don't carry them, because they're not pleasant looking for potential buyers. Kinda stuck at the moment, and I can't find any bogwood, people keep reccomending a large plastick driftwood piece for my tank. | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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| I'll try for some of those, do they need bogwood as well? | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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Last edited by Blub; February 22nd, 2008 at 09:01 AM.
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February 22nd, 2008
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| I'll be sure to look into it, although at the moment the tank has absolutley zero algae in it(visible algae at least), I wonder if I just keep the sunlight off the tank if I could just skip the pleco? | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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| Hi!
You don't know what your missing...
I don't really value plecos for their algae-eating values (Although it is a big bonus!), rather their amazing personality's and quirky action. BN's are really great to watch, Crispy has worked out exactly how to stop the other fish eating HIS catfish tablet - spread out on top of it and suck like crazy! They are really fun fish to have. Clowns and Flash's aren't as crazy as BN's - but have a lovely pattern and still have a personality and a half. Read the links in my previous post. You'll probably be sold! (There's a reason they where yelling with joy every time they found another clown pleco...)
Last edited by Blub; February 22nd, 2008 at 09:09 AM.
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February 22nd, 2008
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| Both of those plecos look really good, I just don't have any direct access to buy one at the moment, I'm starting to wonder if I can get a catfish or small shark in my tank, not for sure as most catfish are nocturnal and I don't plan to get nightvision to enjoy them. | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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| Hi!
Ah. I'm a bit of a Catfish geek... I read about lots of Catfish before making my desicion just to get a BN and 6 corys. you've got 12inches left in there... Sharks are out of the question, too aggresive for the Pearls and they'll go back to the sorry state they used to be in. You can ask the LFS to get some Flash/clowns for you?
Wait, lunch. I'll edit this post and finish it when I'm back up. Look around Planet Catfish and find a few catfish you like the look of in the mean time. See you...
Last edited by Blub; February 22nd, 2008 at 09:19 AM.
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February 22nd, 2008
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| lol k, kinda wierd its only 9 in the morning over here. and when you get back, are there any catfish you reccomend that aren't shy or nocturnal? | |
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February 22nd, 2008
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| Hi!
It's half 2 over here! Yeah - it was a late lunch...
Right, you have 15inches more space in there. Now, the obvious small, peaceful catfish is a school of corys. Talking catfishes are basically 100% nocturnal. There isn't really many cats I'd say would go well in there, apart from those plecos we where talking about and corys. Here are some fish I reccomend to 'fill the gaps':
6 Panda, Sterbai, Julii, Bandit or Leopard cory cats,
10 Common (AKA Silver) hatchets,
3 more female cherry barbs, 1 more male cherry barb and 6 Common hatchets,
8 Harlequin rasboras, (Highly recommended!)
8 Oto cats, (Watch it with these guys. They are very sensitive, they're basically mini-BN's otherwise)
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February 25th, 2008
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| I really like the rasboras although I kinda want something a little bigger, doesn't have to school at all, just needs to look nice, sorry for being so difficult when asking for advice, just want some pets rather than something to show my guests. | |
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February 26th, 2008
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| Swordtails look good, I heard that they need a little salt in the water so, I don't know what issues may come up there. | |
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