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Ferox   Enthusiast Posts: 219 Kudos: 187 Votes: 28 Registered: 19-Dec-2003   | I got 4 little ones today, and already there are clean tracts through the algae on the rocks and glass. The other fish aren't quite sure what they're supposed to be, especially the bettas. Anyway, to feed them lettuce or zuchini, if I use a rubber band to attach it to a rock will that work fine, or will the ruber band taint the water? <Vet in Training> Blog under development: http://www.nearlydrferox.blogging4life.com/ |
 Posted 30-Oct-2007 04:18 |      |
keithgh      *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003   | With lettuce in the 5ft tank with those big CLs I just sit a small rock on top of the lettuce and they just rip the leaf apart. I have use a rubber band to hold a tomato to a smaller flat rock and never a problem, and at the moment I have a rubber band holding some Java Moss on for my baby BNs in their keeper holder. Have a look in [link=My Profile] http://www.fishprofiles.com/forums/member.aspx?id=1935[/link] for my tank info Look here for my Betta 11Gal Desktop & Placidity 5ft Community Tank Photos Keith  Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT?  VOTE NOW VOTE NOW |
| Posted 30-Oct-2007 05:41 |  |
Brengun  Big Fish Posts: 355 Kudos: 187 Votes: 110 Registered: 22-Jun-2007  | Apart from just plain algae mine doesn't mind the occasional sinking wafer. I only have one per tank though so plenty of algae for one. You must have a lot of algae to have clean tracts though it. I can just imagine it.  |
| Posted 30-Oct-2007 09:01 | |
| jasonpisani *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 5553 Kudos: 7215 Votes: 1024 Registered: 24-Feb-2003  | WOW. I also got a small BN yesterday & it's in a quarantine tank. I will feed him some sinking Algae Pellets today. About the rubber band in the tank, i don't see any problems with it. I usually use it to hold some pvc pipes together & so i use it as well. http://www.flickr.com/photos/corydoras/ Member of the Malta Aquarist Society - 1970. http://www.maltaaquarist.com |
| Posted 30-Oct-2007 09:44 | |
| Ferox Enthusiast Posts: 219 Kudos: 187 Votes: 28 Registered: 19-Dec-2003 | I'd been letting the algae grow, so I have a soft brown type on the filter outlet - which now has patches missing, and small green shades on the rocks and pots, which are now patchy. What veggies have you fed them - zuchini, lettuce, tomato.... just fairly soft ones? <Vet in Training> Blog under development: http://www.nearlydrferox.blogging4life.com/ |
| Posted 30-Oct-2007 11:20 | |
| keithgh *Ultimate Fish Guru* Posts: 6371 Kudos: 6918 Votes: 1542 Registered: 26-Apr-2003 | Ferox If you have a look at My Profile you will see what I have fed my fish over the years. Have a look in [link=My Profile] http://www.fishprofiles.com/forums/member.aspx?id=1935[/link] for my tank info Look here for my Betta 11Gal Desktop & Placidity 5ft Community Tank Photos Keith Near enough is not good enough, therefore good enough is not near enough, and only your best will do. I VOTE DO YOU if not WHY NOT? VOTE NOW VOTE NOW |
| Posted 31-Oct-2007 04:19 | |
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