My new friends

[Sir Tristen]

I took a bit of a drive today to go pick up some fish from a fellow hobbiest, brought them home, and after over an hour of acclimatization here they are!!!

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A female

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A male

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I've wanted some of these ever since I got researching the hobby. Now I have around 14 (they are hard to cound as some of them are just little fry). I got them all for $30, which was a steal as far as I'm concerned. Now I just need to know what to feed the little guys. The guy I got them from said he was feeding them the same pellets as his plecos, and they were happy buggers, breeding and everything. Would flakes work? Or should I get some small pellets?

[Northernguy]

They look like wonderful fish! You sure can't beat the price!
Great color and spots!
NLS flake food would be good.What do you feed your fish now?

[Sir Tristen]

Thanks Northern!

I have nutrafin max flakes right now. I could get some NLS, but isn't NLS a pellet food? These fish are tiny, especially some of the fry.

[Cassandra]

very pretty fish....arent they fairly hard to find?

feed the adults brine shrimp...feed the fry baby brine shrimp and dapnia...oh and that liquifry stuff

thats all i got so far...good luck hopefully theyll eat that

[Sir Tristen]

They are a little hard to find, but I just placed a want ad on a local forum and somebody responded :19:

I don't have a culture for baby brine shrimp. Do stores sell it? I might be able to find liquifry or something similar (all I got close is a crummy petsmart).

Thanks for the info Cassandra!

[Cassandra]

ooh sorry to say but i HATE petsmart. they really dont have anything or anyone helpful (i hope none of you guys work there and if so im sorry in advance)

i was lucky to come across one (out of at least 25 LFS) that sell live daphnia and baby brine...and i mean lucky...

have you looked at online petstores? if i come across one that sells it ill put the link up :thumb:

[Northernguy]

I crush flakes between my fingers for my fry plus I bought some liquid fry food.Live food is the best if you can.For now find a way to crush up what you have into a fine powder and give them a little.

[Cassandra]

you know i was actually at a petsmart earlier and asw a freezer that had frozen daphnia and stuff like that so you might wanna try that its worth a shot....

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they are sometimes a lil pricey on some stuff but its a nice catalog to have on hand. they carry alot of stuff that i have trouble finding

[sleeby]

LUCKY.

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