FINALLY got some.
What to feed?
Tips?
What to feed?
Tips?
It shouldn't get dirty unless you are over feeding. Everything that goes into your tank needs to go through a fishOkay.
Sand. Is it me or does it get dirty?
Mine eat the smaller particles of flake foods and appear partial to frozen cyclops and daphnia...they'll also take live daphnia and commercially grown black and tubifex worm. Bloodworm seem to be a little on the large size, but they will have a go.FINALLY got some.
What to feed?
Tips?
Fish poop and that poop will fall on the sand.Sand. Is it me or does it get dirty?
Ideally! The brass ring I think. Certainly a goal of mine.It shouldn't get dirty unless you are over feeding. Everything that goes into your tank needs to go through a fish
I think I will get a smaller syphon. Since I haven't had them very long I am not sure of their feeding habits. When I prime the syphon it spits sand everywhere and then I'm also worried about the gas pockets, so I keep poking at it, etc...Mine eat the smaller particles of flake foods and appear partial to frozen cyclops and daphnia...they'll also take live daphnia and commercially grown black and tubifex worm. Bloodworm seem to be a little on the large size, but they will have a go.
Fish poop and that poop will fall on the sand.
Sand doesn't clean itself and, as it's usually a pale colouration and too dense for waste to simply disappear, (as it might appear to do in gravels), you will need to clean it on occasion. The trick is to lightly drag your syphon pipe over the surface and then suck up any problematic waste.
'Poking at it' is a bit of a 'must', so well spotted. I'm actually using a Cake Tester to release some gas bubbles.I think I will get a smaller syphon. Since I haven't had them very long I am not sure of their feeding habits. When I prime the syphon it spits sand everywhere and then I'm also worried about the gas pockets, so I keep poking at it, etc...
I'm getting some plant wiltings, too, that contribute to the stuff on the surface.
I need to figure out the best plants.
I'll just have to keep at it. I love them so.
Thx
FINALLY got some.
What to feed?
Tips?
Puff and poke?I use my turkey basters to sand puff & poke...they also remove detritus from sand easier than using the syphon hoover. I give the sand on all my aquariums a good puff and poke each water change with the besters...it did confuse the fish at first but now they just watch the bubbles, check the now nice clean sand and go make a mess with it again
What kind of pipe?'Poking at it' is a bit of a 'must', so well spotted. I'm actually using a Cake Tester to release some gas bubbles.
My syphoning technique is simply a pipe and bucket, with a digit over each end of the pipe.
Unlike most cory species, the pygmies don't seem to 'need' the sand substrate so much. Mine spend most of their time anywhere but the purpose-built beach I made them. In particular, they seem to enjoy grazing leaves for any infusoria and algae.