Neon Tetra problems already
 

On Sep 9, 10:21 pm, "Reel McKoi" wrote:
The 8 Neon tetras will not eat what I offer them. The platys and gouramies
and one cory are eating everything. The Neon's just take the food in and
spit it back out. One cory just hides by a rock.

I've tried 5 different foods and the Neon's wont eat any of them.
Suggestions anyone?
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RM....
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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RM........An easy to acquire live food that is often overlooked is
mosquito larvae. Neon Tetrae as well as betta and other fish go nuts
over them. I forgot all about that when I replied to your question
originally. I keep some "strategically" placed shallow containers in
areas that skeeters love and collect them for my fish that I keep
inside. Once they hit an aquarium there is no fear of them growing
into a skeeter. ;-)
I harvest mine by dumping the water into a container but use a brine
shrimp net to catch the larvae. Thehj place water back in the original
container for the next haarvest......The larvae I collect I place in a
container along with all the other harvested batches of the day. I
then rinse well under fresh water while in the net and feed directly
into the tanks......Another good food that is easy to propagate and
grow is daphina......I use an old 2.5 gal aquarium to propagate them
in......swoosh of a brine shrimp net is all it takes to harvest them
for feeding. Its been a few months since I rasied the daph, since most
of my fish are outside on vacation yet....and my other foods are fine
for those inside along with mosquito larvae.

Neon Tetra problems already
 

"Tristie" wrote in message
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RM........An easy to acquire live food that is often overlooked is
mosquito larvae. Neon Tetrae as well as betta and other fish go nuts
over them. I forgot all about that when I replied to your question
originally. I keep some "strategically" placed shallow containers in
areas that skeeters love and collect them for my fish that I keep
inside. Once they hit an aquarium there is no fear of them growing
into a skeeter. ;-)

- - Now there's an idea. I can look in all the 30g tubs I grow the pond
plants in tomorrow and see what I can find. They did start eating this
weekend. I tried "thawed" blood worms and brine-shrimp but their mouths are
too small. They didn't have baby brine shrimp. These are young Neon's. I'm
offering a variety of foods and they're eating just about everything now.

I harvest mine by dumping the water into a container but use a brine
shrimp net to catch the larvae. Thehj place water back in the original
container for the next haarvest......The larvae I collect I place in a
container along with all the other harvested batches of the day. I
then rinse well under fresh water while in the net and feed directly
into the tanks......Another good food that is easy to propagate and
grow is daphina......I use an old 2.5 gal aquarium to propagate them
in......swoosh of a brine shrimp net is all it takes to harvest them
for feeding.

- - Where did you find the daphnia to start your tanks? It doesn't seem to
occur naturally here. I only found some one time. It came in with some
plants from the river I think. I haven't seen any since.

Its been a few months since I rasied the daph, since most
of my fish are outside on vacation yet....and my other foods are fine
for those inside along with mosquito larvae.

- - I'm gonna see what I can find in those tubs tomorrow. The drought here
has lasted so long that natural ponds and streams have dried up. You can
sit outside and have a few cups of coffee and not one mosquito will show up,
and very few moths or other bugs and insects will appear. I don't know if
it was those last abnormal killing frosts or the dry dead vegetation but we
have a bug and insect shortage this year. We've also noticed there are a
lot less frogs around the ponds and tanks.
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RM....
Frugal ponding since 1995.
rec.ponder since late 1996.
My Pond & Aquarium Pages:
http://tinyurl.com/9do58
Zone 6. Middle TN USA
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