My First Tank (10G) Journal

[mommytron]

brine shrimp

 

[Crepe]

You buy the shrimp eggs and hatch them in a coke bottle or buy them frozen, the latter being more convenient.

 

[logansmomma1228]

just feed them once a day. try to keep their diet varied as well. pick up some frozen food--mine like brine shrimp--and give it to them once or twice a week instead of flakes for a treat. also feed a pea or two once a week (i do peas twice a week, my cardinals get bloated all the time) to help keep them regular i also pre-soak the flakes for 5 or 10 minutes in a little cup of tank water for this purpose

+1. I personally spoil my fish They get bloodworms or brine shrimp once a day and flakes every other day, the puffers get snails and mr. betta gets his pellets.

 

[krap101]

If you have any bigger fish, they tend to swallow food, break it up, and spit it back out and re eat, so that's one way to break up flakes

 

[agp]

I've seen the Convict Cichlid do that. But the Tetras need me to break up the food for them. All the larger pieces are sitting on the gravel.

 

[saa5886]

Peppered cories look nice, and the neolamprologus genus as well. How many neolamprologus should I have? Just a pair?

And wow this is an expensive hobby... I've already spent almost $120 and I haven't gotten any light, plants, or fish yet... And I've spent at least $20 bucks worth of gas money driving around to stores, that pure ammonia was hard to find!

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