Friday, November 21, 2008
Posted by Jeff on July 22, 2008
Has anyone seen anything about these Doctor fish that eat dead skin off of peoples feet?
A spa that does it just opened up in America and I am wondering what other people think about it. They say each person gets fresh water that these fish get put into with a pair of feet.
I just don’t think it could be all that good for the fish.
What do you think?
Posted by Jeff on July 21, 2008
I was talking to a friend yesterday and he asked what I was doing to mitigate the risk of plastics breaking down and affecting the fish.
I said I hadn’t even thought about it. I guess I am so confused about the plastics and the dangers to humans I did not even think about it for the fish.
I make my own R/O water and keep it overnight in a plastic trash can not even thinking about the dangers.
The water does not stay in the python long enough to cause any danger from what I understand, plus the python is made of food grade plastics.
However some plastics that have been marketed as food grade in the past are now on the danger list.
So I thought I would ask what everyone else is doing, if anything to stop or lessen the risk?
Posted by Sarah on July 18, 2008
Figure 8 Puffer - 8-ball
We try to feed our fish a variety of foods, and after winning a ton of different kinds of fish foods at the Aquarium Show we’ve got more fish food than we’ll ever need.
I try not to feed the bettas freeze dried foods, and if I feed them to the other fish I try to soak them in water first so that they won’t swell after the fish eat them.
We feed flakes, shrimp pellets, algae tablets, floating pellets, sinking pellets, and of course fry food.
We also feed 8-ball, our figure 8 puffer snails and krill, and we feed the fry baby brine shrimp - we always have extra of that, so we feed it to all of the fish.
The harlequin rasboras really love it, and it’s fun to see them chasing after it, and turning a very intense red.
What do you feed your fish?
What do they seem to enjoy eating the most?
Posted by Sarah on July 15, 2008
The German Ram fry are still going strong - they are finally starting to take on that Ram shape, although they are still pretty small.
There are a lot less of them than we started out with, but there are still at least 20 or so, so I’m happy.
We also have some Bushynose pleco fry that just left the cave yesterday.
Well one left yesterday, two are out now, and the rest are still in the cave.
There is an article about Breeding Bristlenoses in the August, 2008 Tropical Fish Hobbyist magazine, and it says that the fry are cannibalistic, so that probably explains why don’t have too many that survive.
We do have two larger fry from about 3 spawns ago, so I am sure they are having a field day with the younger fry.
Here’s one of the newer fry. He’s so tiny!
