Maeda Posted April 11, 2009 Author Share Posted April 11, 2009 Sucks that they have such poor survival rates. They look small enough to be kept in most nanos. Do they school most of the time? That's the best part they school 100% of the time. Day and night. The worst part is their survival rate is always that bad regardless of your tank size. I'm down to 10 and I'm trying to keep it that way. I believe that they need a lot of food since they never ever stop swimming, so I feed them 3 times a day. I'm hoping this is the 'trick' to keeping most of them around. Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 16, 2009 Author Share Posted April 16, 2009 And then there were 9. :\ Link to comment
SpankythePyro Posted April 16, 2009 Share Posted April 16, 2009 wow that sucks what are you feeding them? I can imagine that rots would be good, and just hatched mysis/brine Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 17, 2009 Author Share Posted April 17, 2009 wow that sucks what are you feeding them? I can imagine that rots would be good, and just hatched mysis/brine Im thinking that these little bugger die because of malnutrition. I'm very carefully watching my school, and one guy has a flat/concave tummy. I fed a bunch this morning trying to get him to eat, but his school mates hog all the food. I'm going to try and start raising live brine or mysis in my sump for a constant flow of food, similar strategy to feeding anthias. or was it too soon yet? A little, but i'm always looking for nice a genicanthus. Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 8... Feedings upped to 3 times a day, with mysis and cyclopeeze. 24/7 brine hatching comming soon. These buggers better live after all this effort. Link to comment
Lalani Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Geez, picky little buggers, eh? Link to comment
CowboyRWN Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Good luck. Tagging along. Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 20, 2009 Author Share Posted April 20, 2009 Geez, picky little buggers, eh? not so much that they're picky, its just they do a LOT of swimming. I believe that in nature, these buggers just school in a cloud above the reef, and eat what passes right in front of their face, since thats all they seem to do in my tank. The lowest man on the totem pole starves, because I simply can't saturate my tank with enough food to keep the least aggressive of the pack eating. Link to comment
nanoty Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I fawking almost juiced my pants when I saw your overflow cover Link to comment
seahorsejl Posted April 21, 2009 Share Posted April 21, 2009 7. X.X Just read through the thread. Beautiful tank... good luck keeping the school! Link to comment
adinsxq Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 http://www.liveaquaria.com/diversden/ItemD...&ddid=61520 please. Link to comment
DaveFason Posted April 22, 2009 Share Posted April 22, 2009 Well I am down to 2 cardinals. How about you? -D Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 22, 2009 Author Share Posted April 22, 2009 6. >_< I'm begginning to hate these little bastards. I FEED AND I FEED but my love goes unrequited. WTF. Feeding 6 times a day now, and using a new theory ezcompany came up with after looking at my tank tonight. I'm turning the flow wayyy down at night so they don't expend so many calories. I've even tried coaching the skinny ones to eat, by isolating them and just blasting cyclopeeze in the breeder net.... but still nothing. please. Please donate money. Just read through the thread. Beautiful tank... good luck keeping the school! Thank you. I don't think luck will have much of a part to play. These little bastards seem INTENT on breaking my heart. :\ Link to comment
mew Posted April 23, 2009 Share Posted April 23, 2009 awesome bellossum. that's a lot of growth there. and nice gorgonians. ;D Link to comment
AdriftQuasar Posted April 24, 2009 Share Posted April 24, 2009 The dwindling numbers of the school really sucks, but the tank as a whole is awesome on a magnitude that cannot be adequately expressed in any known language. Link to comment
East1 Posted April 25, 2009 Share Posted April 25, 2009 The dwindling numbers of the school really sucks, but the tank as a whole is awesome on a magnitude that cannot be adequately expressed in any known language. klingon, duhh Link to comment
Maeda Posted April 30, 2009 Author Share Posted April 30, 2009 I'm tired of going back 100 pages to see if anybody replied to this thread, so i'm bumping for easy viewing. yes i'm an attention whore. I added a brine hatcher, in an effort feed the needy parvulus. We also have a new addition that I will snap a pic of if he ever comes out of hiding. Link to comment
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