rainbows and neon and you get this

[Lady Hobbs]

http://www.pinkgrapefruit.net/hans/herinrichting/herinrichting28.JPG

[Lady Hobbs]

Not my fish, BTW. Got it from a friend in the rainbow forum.

[angelcakes]

im guessing the rainbows hungry:14:

[Sharon]

Oh Dear! Please tell me that black stuff is NOT fish poo!!!:ssuprised:

[Jacko]

Hehe, awesome!
Rainbows can have big mouths if they want to.

[mac]

Hmm,
Heheheh, I agree Alexw. What I find odd is that I have kept Dwarf Rasboras with the Kutubus and they have never eaten a single one. I wonder whether this rainbow was ticked of by the Neon?

mac

[Lady Hobbs]

Bows have a big mouth but a narrow throat so I'm rather surprised they'd eat smaller fish but then maybe someone didn't tell him he had a small throat. Could be why he's swimming around with the neon in his mouth. My tetra had a mouthful of neon last week but he managed to get it down.

Bows love live food. Guess that neon was alive enough to look good.

Fish poop? LOLOLOL No. It's black something or another but not poop. Looks like they spilled some charcoal.

[LORENZO]

:xdog: ha am i glad i gave those rainbows back last week! oh what a shot though. Nasty rainbows.. he would have had a feast in my tank.... :hmm3grin2orange:

[Drip Loop]

Ya know, I have two rainbows that I bought about 2 weeks ago. I really couldnt ask for a more passive fish. Obviously every fish is different, but I havent even so much as seen my rainbow chase another fish with the exception of the female rainbow.

[LORENZO]

:chimney: Everyone says they are peaceful well i am simply going to have to try again when another batch comes in. I read up on them and yeah they are not supposed to be aggressive. But with gouramis i had to get rid of them. They kept after fish in the tank. i bought three gave them back. Beautiful looking fish and not overly big. Send a pic of your fish i would like to see it!!!!!

[Lady Hobbs]

My experience with bows has been a bit odd.

I have a several Splendida, boesemani and Lake Kutuba in a planted tank together. The darned Splendida are nuts......swimming 50 miles an hour, very dominate of the tank and they keep the boesemani on one end of the tank and the Lake Kutuba stuck on the other end while the tetra's are hiding under a sword plant.

For lack of anything better to do with them, I put them in my blood parrot tank and their behavior changed immediately. The swim around together now peacefully and act just so nice. They don't seem to care that their plants are now fake and are still spawning. They surely took on an attitude adjustment and now I like them. It was debateable there for awhile.

I think it had to do with the numbers of them as I have a lot of Splendida and only 3 turquoise and 5 boesemani. I think they were out-numbering and out-bossing and also out-sized the others, but whatever the reason for their attitude, these will now have their own tank and when the parrots get moved, will have a planted tank as well. Some with bows maintain species only tanks and have good luck with that, as well.

They want several of their own kind with them, not one or two, as well.

[mac]

Hi,
Fish can be very strange can't they. IMO I find that the Kutubus are the best of them all. They are not aggressive in any-way. And they are not overly active.

But with the faster Rainbows it is amazing adding something bigger than them into the tank. They just stop being the general bully.

mac

[Wild Turkey]

Could be why he's swimming around with the neon in his mouth.

Thats what i immediately thought. How else would you get that picture???

[Lady Hobbs]

Hi,
Fish can be very strange can't they. IMO I find that the Kutubus are the best of them all. They are not aggressive in any-way. And they are not overly active.

But with the faster Rainbows it is amazing adding something bigger than them into the tank. They just stop being the general bully.

mac

Could be they are checking out the blood parrots and thinking "whoaaaa.....we'd best behave ourselves in this tank." LOL They could also be happier under subdued lights. Rainbows like more subdued lighting and it's a bit hard to have a subdued tank while trying to have plants growing, too.

[LORENZO]

:fish: :fish: Soo lady Hobbs the Splendidas are the badies. oh yes manic swimmers. oh. So what does a boesemani look like? ARe they tamer???

[mac]

:fish: :fish: Soo lady Hobbs the Splendidas are the badies. oh yes manic swimmers. oh. So what does a boesemani look like? ARe they tamer???

A looks Boesemani like this.

http://www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_boese.php


Could be they are checking out the blood parrots and thinking "whoaaaa.....we'd best behave ourselves in this tank." LOL They could also be happier under subdued lights. Rainbows like more subdued lighting and it's a bit hard to have a subdued tank while trying to have plants growing, too.

I think it is just more than likely the size of the fish. Something bigger than them that might be aggressive.

As for the lighting I have no trouble with my rainbows in high intensity lighting. The main thing i find to settle them down is to have lots of plants like Rotala and Giant Hygro to provide large leaf cover, with the Rotala giving a sort of over hang plant cover on the top of the tank. Which gives them a bit of shelter from the high impute lighting.

mac

[Lady Hobbs]

I had lots of red root floaters and they all disappeared. Seemed to just melt away but I do have lots of hygro.

[LORENZO]

:sock: What did you do with your hygrophilia plant to keep it in good condition. the discus -or the clowns before i took them out of disus tank ate them all up. It is a hardy plant..but i found it prone to brown algae and the polysperma more hardy against brown algae. But i will remember when i go to put the rainbows in that i float more plants. But i don't think i will get a splendida. do you know how hard it was to get that bloody fish out!!!!