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06-16-2013 03:01 AM |
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Originally Posted by gobytron
(Post 825699)
In my reading, it has been pointed out that cpb's don;t eat mysis in the wild.
They are omnivorous but their diet consists mostly of micro flora (and some fauna) so even when they are eating frozen, they're basically living on mcdonalds.
Thats why so many reputed to be eating frozen foods still die from malnutrition.
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hehe, considering that PE mysis comes from freshwater lakes in northern BC and Hikari mysis comes from some other fresh water source, any marine animal that eats frozen mysis is technically eating McDonalds. I think anything that gets all of it's food from a single source will eventually have problems, that's why I try and feed a variety of things that are fortified with different blends of vitamins.
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Originally Posted by daniella3d
(Post 825710)
Why do you want a copperband? hope you know they are very finiky eaters and you might have to give it some live food and messy food like fresh live mussels. They often have problem feeding because they are gentle fish and other more aggressive fish will get to all the food before the copperband even have a bite. They are way best kept in a tank with no aggressive fish at all. Mine was with one niger trigger that was always hiding, and just a few small fish. I was feeding him twice a day with a pipette so that he would eat. They can be very time consuming and you must be prepare for this.
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They're my favourite fish. Great personalities, curious, non-aggressive, eat out of my hands, cool looking, keeps certain pests in check... the list goes on. I don't mind giving extra attention getting them to eat.
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Originally Posted by fishoholic
(Post 825741)
Personally I think the powder blue is a very bad idea. They can be hard to keep (finicky eaters, ich magnets, and a lot of them when they first come in to a lfs have internal parasites) also they are aggressive fish once fully established. If you saw the way Doug's powder blue cruises back and forth in his 7 foot long tank you'd realize 36x36 is way to small for one.
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Yah that's what I'm worried about. Well, either I'll get a bigger tank, or no powder blue. The closest I came to having success with one was when all my fish were in quarantine while my display was being fallowed for ich. I got a powder blue right at the start so that they would all go through the same ich treatment protocol and QT together. That fish was perfect. At first he would only eat nori, but after about 5 weeks he figured out mysis was food and started eating with the rest of the fish. Gained a ton of weight, and *seemed* ok in a 40 gallon QT (he was pretty small though). Ate out of my hands, was perfect. Lost him along with every single other fish when the door to the room they were in was closed by mistake during a party and the room overheated. Broke my heart, they were less than a week away from going back in the big tank, and that powder blue was fat, and perfectly healthy. I've always wanted to try again, but perhaps not this time. It stresses me out watching a fish go crazy from not enough room, and if you get the impression that they're still cramped in a 7 foot tank I'll take that advice to heart.
OK, well I need some sort of an algae grazer. My next best option is a doliatus rabbitfish as I have one of those now and it swims circles around any tang from an algae eating point of view, but I'm also not convinced a 3ftx3ft tank is big enough for them. My current guy is getting pretty big. If it is another smaller tang though, it needs to be showy and less common. I'm not sure which species fit that bill though. |
