quite a sensitive fish, mine didn't make it through the week when they got ich. Tried tubifex worms on them but no response.
quite a sensitive fish, mine didn't make it through the week when they got ich. Tried tubifex worms on them but no response.
Last edited by Justikanz; 30th Oct 2006 at 01:30. Reason: din = noise.
Cheers,
Andrew
Weitzmani are scavengers in nature.they eat about almost anything that falls from the surface that makes them a bottom feeder but it does expectionally well with live food! ie. Brine Shrimp.Lots of cavities particular driftwood provide them with some shady area and strive well in cooling water temperature 24 - 26 would be ideal.
(dont feed them with too much live Tubifex. There is a possibility that you might regret it)
that my experiences with weitzmani.
Look like my 1.5ft setup is suitable for them. there is shady area provided by the driftwood in my scape. It is full of spiky moss. The temp is around 25 deg. and it has ada soil in it.
I currently feeling them frozen bloodworm. Some of them seems to eat them.
Will try out tetra bits (according to ban_tse).
Look like I got to start hatching brime shirmps. Can feed them frozen brime shirmps?
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Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
yes they can!
Just got a batch recently. Researched a little about them. They are carnivore & respond to live food, & is very hard to convert their diet to dry food.
I have been trying to convert them to eat dry food. Could not get them to eat NLS. As adviced by the uncle at midori, feed them with ADA powder food, but only a few ate.
Can anyone confirm if they will eat dry foods like tetrabits? Was thinking of grinding up hikari carnivore pellets to feed them.
I have kept them for about a year.
I feed them ADA gold food.
It is hard to train them to take dry food.
Patience and luck is the key.
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
What about tetrabits? Any luck?
Nope. Never tried Tetrabits
Am trying to feed them. NLS.
I also feed them live brine shirmps or baby brine shirmps.
At times also frozen bloodworm.
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
mine eat NLS from day 1. i think they need small sized food, large food they aren't used to pecking slowly like other bred tetras are. I use a pepper grinder to grind my NLS to slightly bigger than dust size...they eat
Humm... So powdered food is the key. No wonder they don't eat the NLS pellets. Think i'll get a pepper grinder tomorrow.
In case some of you missed this in the other thread, do take some time to read the webpage below via Google or Babelfish translation, there is some good information in there.
A point of interest on this fish is that, instead of being egg scatterers (as with most tetras/characins), they are cave spawners.
Guys, hows the survival rate till now? I got myself 10 pieces the other time, now only left with 2 pieces....
Zack
Planted tank: Melanotaenia Lacustris, Melanotaenia Parkinsoni, Melanotaenia Praecox, Glossolepis Incisus, Melanotaenia Maccullochi, Melanotaenia Boesemani, Iriatherina Werneri, Barilius Canarensis
Now i understand why they are nicked "waste money" ...sorry
Looking at their adult sizes and those that are sold. Its a huge difference. What are sold are probably fries and so may be the reason as to why the survival rate is so low.
Eugene (^_^)
De Dwergcichlide Fanatiek
Now swimming: Plecos and Apistogrammas
80% survival. No idea what they are feeding on though.
ck
Last edited by CK Yeo; 9th Dec 2008 at 21:26. Reason: Found one more survivor! (4/5)
Around 80 to 90 percent survival rate for mine. =)
Nicholas
Newbie en el cichlid enano
Last edited by Zenislev; 6th Dec 2008 at 12:40.
Zack
Planted tank: Melanotaenia Lacustris, Melanotaenia Parkinsoni, Melanotaenia Praecox, Glossolepis Incisus, Melanotaenia Maccullochi, Melanotaenia Boesemani, Iriatherina Werneri, Barilius Canarensis
Mashed up the pellets using your fingers before feeding. If not, there is always BBS.
Eugene (^_^)
De Dwergcichlide Fanatiek
Now swimming: Plecos and Apistogrammas
Live daphnias work for them, they eat them with gusto and surprisingly are rather resistant to bacterial infection that often plagues with other fishes when feeding live daphnias. I recommend keeping them with alot of vegetation and I mean really dense, as they are really shy fishes.
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