newlywed
Aquarium Advice Apprentice
Now that my tank is cycled and established, I'd like to give my new fish friends a treat now and again. Here's what is in the tank:
6 Tiger Barbs
3 Gold Barbs
3 Clown Loaches
3 Otos
2 "Julli" Corys
1 Dojo Loach
I found a couple of small fishing worms that had made their way to the top of th soil during one of our Southwestern PA warmups last weekend. The Tigers LOVED those! I may have to make it a habit of digging some of those up. I also have a container of freeze dried blood worms and the fish like those. Other than that, I feed flake food and sinking pellets. I'd like to offer my friends some more variety and am not sure what else I can offer them! I did see baggies full of brine shrimp at the lfs. There must have been 1000 of them in the bag and they were selling them as a single portion. I was thinking...what if the fish didn't eat them all? Are these good to feed to the fish? If so, how many shrimps for each fish. The bag also said that they were good for both fw and sw. How can that be? Wouldn't they die? And if they did die and didn't get eaten wouldn't they mess up the tank?
So....what else can I offer my fish? and, how can I get the fish to the bottom of the tank without the little pigs (tigers) eating everything. I swear those fish act like they never get fed!
TIA
Jim
6 Tiger Barbs
3 Gold Barbs
3 Clown Loaches
3 Otos
2 "Julli" Corys
1 Dojo Loach
I found a couple of small fishing worms that had made their way to the top of th soil during one of our Southwestern PA warmups last weekend. The Tigers LOVED those! I may have to make it a habit of digging some of those up. I also have a container of freeze dried blood worms and the fish like those. Other than that, I feed flake food and sinking pellets. I'd like to offer my friends some more variety and am not sure what else I can offer them! I did see baggies full of brine shrimp at the lfs. There must have been 1000 of them in the bag and they were selling them as a single portion. I was thinking...what if the fish didn't eat them all? Are these good to feed to the fish? If so, how many shrimps for each fish. The bag also said that they were good for both fw and sw. How can that be? Wouldn't they die? And if they did die and didn't get eaten wouldn't they mess up the tank?
So....what else can I offer my fish? and, how can I get the fish to the bottom of the tank without the little pigs (tigers) eating everything. I swear those fish act like they never get fed!
TIA
Jim