Jorge O'Reilly
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Howdy.
So here's the deal: I purchased some Apistogramma Trifasciata a week ago, they were half starved, thin as a shotgun as we say. In advance, I had collected about, give or take, a thousand mosquito larvae. I honestly thought I'd be covered for some time. Wrong.
They ate through that like they were... well, starving. The two small Gymnogeophagus Meridionalis did not help. They were in mint condition, faster, and a great deal smarter, to be frank. They got the lion's share.
The thing is, these are all wild fish, and will absolutely refuse to eat fish food. How on earth can I convince them to change their heathen ways?
Here's the tank. It's well established, in fact the two Gymnos didn't really require feeding, but five cichlids is well past the self-sustainability marker.
Population: three Apistos, two juvenile Gymnos, six Otos (one of which unfortunately was an O. Arnoldi and also will eat nothing but algae) a gazillion wild ghost shrimp, and one absolutely great trichodactylus borellianus that has recently dropped crablets all over.
So here's the deal: I purchased some Apistogramma Trifasciata a week ago, they were half starved, thin as a shotgun as we say. In advance, I had collected about, give or take, a thousand mosquito larvae. I honestly thought I'd be covered for some time. Wrong.
They ate through that like they were... well, starving. The two small Gymnogeophagus Meridionalis did not help. They were in mint condition, faster, and a great deal smarter, to be frank. They got the lion's share.
The thing is, these are all wild fish, and will absolutely refuse to eat fish food. How on earth can I convince them to change their heathen ways?
Here's the tank. It's well established, in fact the two Gymnos didn't really require feeding, but five cichlids is well past the self-sustainability marker.
Population: three Apistos, two juvenile Gymnos, six Otos (one of which unfortunately was an O. Arnoldi and also will eat nothing but algae) a gazillion wild ghost shrimp, and one absolutely great trichodactylus borellianus that has recently dropped crablets all over.