The first natives in the 110g

[FisHaRNekEd]

very nice native but dirty glas or camra.lol the first one is a white bass i belive and the otheres are some perch very nice ones. i would wach(sp) those cichlids there small enought to be food for that white bass my white bass was only 6" eating 4-4.5" shinners and about 24 a week.

The glass is still dirty, i blame the Plecos, i think all plecos are lazy... I trust in the chinese algea eater, but i cant find them over an inch here. i may have to set up a chinese algea eater grow out tank... And i refuse to clean the algea off myself, i think im having a silent war with the plecos, which prefer to eat fish food, then attach to one spot and never move untill feeding time again.

 

[duke33]

Nice setup, I have some white crappie that are starting to eat fake food after 3-4 weeks. I'd beware the broken bottle(looks like). Little scratches and wounds can haunt you.

 

[tunerX]

It took about a week before mine started to eat pellets. They love worms, krill, and shrimp though.

They were about 5" when I put them in the tank. I would have like to get them smaller but that was the smallest of the daily catch.

 

[arowana man]

r u going for a river look with all the bottles?? nice fish

 

[fatherof5]

It just takes some time to eat pellets but if you are afraid that they might die on you go ahead and feed them live , down the road you can gradually start to feed them pellets and at the same time the live food will eat the pellets and the perch will pick-up on this.

 

[FisHaRNekEd]

Nice setup, I have some white crappie that are starting to eat fake food after 3-4 weeks. I'd beware the broken bottle(looks like). Little scratches and wounds can haunt you.

Everybody says that, but iv never had a fish injure itself on the decorations. The silver perch has wounds, but i think the other fish pick on him (even thou hees several times larger)
and now i have F#@$n ick in my tank again.. Can you believe that im gonna have to start quarantining fish from the lfs before they go in the tank !!! I do it with natives, but i think the ick is from the oscars, they had no symptoms in the store or the first day, then 1 oscar breaks out. the others have no signs at all !!

 

[FisHaRNekEd]

It took about a week before mine started to eat pellets. They love worms, krill, and shrimp though.

They were about 5" when I put them in the tank. I would have like to get them smaller but that was the smallest of the daily catch.

same here, mine were caught on worms, and i think they are scerd of em now ha, the cichlids tear up some night crawlers thou.

 

[FisHaRNekEd]

r u going for a river look with all the bottles?? nice fish

iv always done it (sobe bottles as a kid ofcourse) the fish seem to love their caves, id like to get some tools and cut em evenly and silicone them together...

 

[FisHaRNekEd]

It just takes some time to eat pellets but if you are afraid that they might die on you go ahead and feed them live , down the road you can gradually start to feed them pellets and at the same time the live food will eat the pellets and the perch will pick-up on this.

Shouldnt they have been watching their tankmates eat? its been a month almost. the silver one tried a few times, but spits it out (flakes,pellets and granules)

They get hollow belly a little, so i get feeders, should i wait a little longer and practice some tough love?

 

[FisHaRNekEd]

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