Teasing My Urau

[star4]

My Urau hate it when I touch the water coming out of the hose lol

http/www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdoSiW6_SrU&feature=youtu.be

 

[Gazzarooo]

Hi I used to keep uaru about 15 years ago and just about to take the plunge with a tank again. Looking for some youngsters. They are great fish. What are the plants u have in your aquarium I seem to remember the only ones they wouldn't eat were java ferns. By the way my dog does the same thing with the hose pipe in the garden.
Gaz

 

[star4]

Oh go for it, I ador mine they are so cheeky and fun, so hard to get hold of though . All my plants are silk they ate my java fern!, they pull that silk stuff behind them to bits too lol

 

[Gazzarooo]

I never tried plastic or silk before. They used to love ripping lettuce leaves up. Think I just had a few rock and wood and java in my tank. They do get their own characteristics though

 

[star4]

They are really destructive, but I love them, mine like lettuce too and cucumber, corgette, banana (thats messy), broccoli, peas, carrot anything really oh yes and fingers lol

 

[Gazzarooo]

I first had uaru when I was in the forces in Germany they lived off beef heart and spinach minced up and frozen in cubes. They loved it but it was messy

 

[Squidward]

Star4,
Do you find that they are very suseptable to white spot?

I got a group of youngsters a couple of months ago, and have been really struggling to keep them free of w.s.
Every time it goes away, I stop treating, and the w.s comes back a few days later.

 

[star4]

Star4,
Do you find that they are very suseptable to white spot?

I got a group of youngsters a couple of months ago, and have been really struggling to keep them free of w.s.
Every time it goes away, I stop treating, and the w.s comes back a few days later.

Mine have never had ick, are you sure it is ick? (stupid question probably) but I have found urau and chocolate cichlids and occasionally severums are prone to what I call cichlid acne (I dont know what it is never found out). Occasionally they get a white spot, it looks just like a larger ick spot, sometimes just 1 sometimes a few, they last for around 4-7 days and just disappear, these sorts of spots come through the skin not settle on the skin like ick does, try a close look.

If it is ick how are you treating it? Urau will take a higher temperature, put the temp up to 29-30 and treat gravel vaccing like crazy to remove as many spores as possible, also feed garlic laced food, it will help boost their immune system.

Hope this helps