Majjie
Fishaholic
I have two young koi angels - I bought them together so they are probably siblings. (They replaced two previous kois which died during the summer from what may have been a bacterial disease - the tank now has a UV steriliser and all the other inhabitants are very perky).
Meet Tiny and Teeny (yes I know - the naming was a bit short termist!
):
Tiny
Teeny
They're not very big now - but they were truly teensy when I got them a few months ago. The cardinal and glowlight tetras in the pictures are, by the way quite outsize, old and fat specimens!
Thing is - Tiny (the larger of the two) has a huge appetite - he grabs at anything and everything fed to them. When I feed bloodworms he sucks up huge amounts and his belly swells up like a little ballon but he's equally keen on almost anything from peas to algae wafers to dried flakes and, given half a chance, he will bloat himself on these too.
Teeny, on the other hand, is a very picky eater. She (I know, I know - either of them could be a she or a he!) spends several minutes focussing on every single piece of food (much of which has, in the meantime, been grabbed by a tetra). She doesn't like dried food and usually spits her chosen piece out again, and only just tolerates some frozen food. Only thing she's really keen on is live daphnia - and she still spits out a few of those.
As a result Tiny is now about four times the size of Teeny (the pics showing them both were taken a few weeks ago). Should I worry about Teeny - or do angelfish appetites normally vary between individuals?
I've also noticed recently that both have damaged tips to their dorsal fins. They're both very active and spend a lot of time foraging underneath and betweeen the plants, stones and bog wood. Could this be causing the damage - or are they likely to be fighting. Tiny is starting to get a bit bossy - biting at Teeny (and at the tetras too) when they come close - but I haven't seen any chasing about. They're in a 19 US gal tank (45 cm high) at the moment but are due to move into a larger tank with some pearl gouramis (and the tetras and some danios) at a later date.
So should I worry about either Teeny's lack of appetite or the damaged dorsal fins??
Meet Tiny and Teeny (yes I know - the naming was a bit short termist!
):
Tiny
Teeny
They're not very big now - but they were truly teensy when I got them a few months ago. The cardinal and glowlight tetras in the pictures are, by the way quite outsize, old and fat specimens!
Thing is - Tiny (the larger of the two) has a huge appetite - he grabs at anything and everything fed to them. When I feed bloodworms he sucks up huge amounts and his belly swells up like a little ballon but he's equally keen on almost anything from peas to algae wafers to dried flakes and, given half a chance, he will bloat himself on these too.
Teeny, on the other hand, is a very picky eater. She (I know, I know - either of them could be a she or a he!) spends several minutes focussing on every single piece of food (much of which has, in the meantime, been grabbed by a tetra). She doesn't like dried food and usually spits her chosen piece out again, and only just tolerates some frozen food. Only thing she's really keen on is live daphnia - and she still spits out a few of those.
As a result Tiny is now about four times the size of Teeny (the pics showing them both were taken a few weeks ago). Should I worry about Teeny - or do angelfish appetites normally vary between individuals?
I've also noticed recently that both have damaged tips to their dorsal fins. They're both very active and spend a lot of time foraging underneath and betweeen the plants, stones and bog wood. Could this be causing the damage - or are they likely to be fighting. Tiny is starting to get a bit bossy - biting at Teeny (and at the tetras too) when they come close - but I haven't seen any chasing about. They're in a 19 US gal tank (45 cm high) at the moment but are due to move into a larger tank with some pearl gouramis (and the tetras and some danios) at a later date.
So should I worry about either Teeny's lack of appetite or the damaged dorsal fins??
