| Skimmer Juice |
09-29-2013 05:46 PM |
I owned a Longhorn Cow for about 6 years , the hardest part is finding a healthy fish to start with. Make sure you ahve a QT tank running. The fish can get ich very easily , witch is ussually the main cause of death.
Never add any fish to the system without proper quarantine. After you get a nice healthy fish to start with just quarantine it, the longer the better. After you get that part over it's just like any other fish , feed him algae . I fed mine with algae and spectrum pellets , every once in a while I would give him shrimp. Make sure water quality is good. Had mine in with corals mostly lps , never bothered them. They are pretty peacful , also my personal favorite fish . Like I said I had him for about 6 years , got him as a baby. He ended up getting some type of eye infection could not get it fixed. Cant say if he would kill the fish when dyeing as I took him out . Thats where a qt comes in nice you can seperate him and treat if he gets sick.
So I would say go for it if you have a qt and a proper sized aqaurium for him, mine was in a 130g and he was outgrowing it imo. They need lots of open space , also avoid feeding near the surface and they can swallow air bubbles . Happened once with my cow , they loose there boyancy and they will float upside down , I was holding right side up and it took a day but he got rid of the air and was fine. Will most likely getting another cow soon I got a 4ft cube tank that will be perfect for him.
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