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I apologize for the confusion. When I typed in JBL liquid vitamins on my search engine, human vitamins came up first. I should have been more thorough. Sorry.
I would be happy to buy bigger live food but none of the lfs in my area sell anything like that. I can only find brine shrimp.
Anyhow...
A vitamin for humans then. I'll look for it.
I frequently see suggestions for live food. The only live food I can source are brine shrimp. The couple of times I tried it, the fish didn't seem interested. Also, I checked into growing my own brine but it was too involved. I tried an artemia...
Confession, I used to feed blood worms but after reading these threads, I realized how damaging they can be.
So, even though I've kept fish for several years, it's never been clear to me how much to feed and how often. Currently, I feed what I consider to be a very small amount twice a day...
This is the best I could do. She darts around quite a bit and is camera shy. The pictured feces is short, though sometimes they are about three times as long.
I also feed Veggie pellets from time to time.
I have heard the pea remedy is a myth but it is mentioned frequently in forums and even...
I purchased a juvenile female Fire Red Agassizi's Apisto from my lfs about two weeks ago. She seems to be eating well and is very active but I noticed within a day some hanging feces. Almost every day it is apparent. It is dark near her anus and lighter and segmented farther from her body. I...
I did have one more thought. I used to keep Discus. One time I introduced a fish that pretty much sickened and killed most of them. (I know, quarantine!) Anyhow, as they were dying they all blackened, similar to what is happening with this MacMasteri. Granted, it's only his face but the coloring...
My pH is 7.4, temp is 74, ammonia is 0, nitrite 0, nitrate 5. I would rather keep the pH around 7.0. I use Catappa leaves and do 20% weekly water changes with RO water adjusted to 7.0. Not sure of my GH or KH but I can measure it if you like. I would like to keep at least one small cichlid. My...
I think you're right. He doesn't look as good this afternoon. His respiration has increased and he's hanging more at the top of the tank. It's interesting you mention trouble keeping apistos. I was under the impression they were pretty hardy fish. I actually re-homed a betta I had in with him a...
You may be right about the stroke. I noticed he's barely moving the pectoral fin on that side. I would think a stroke would have caused him to deteriorate quickly, though. It's been a few days and he seems to be relatively normal. I'll keep my finders crossed he recovers. He's a very personable...
I did see that mentioned online. So far he seems fine. I also noted on another website that someone had something similar happen and the fish recovered. We shall see.
Hi, I've had my male MacMasteri for about four months. He's been relatively healthy, though about a month ago I noticed he had attached feces one day. I was alarmed but it never recurred. (I had been feeding frozen bloodworms once a week but have stopped now.) Yesterday I noticed that half of...
I have to assume there is a wide variety of behaviors among the different apistos. Even now, with just the single male Mcmasteri, my female betta, who pretty much left everyone alone, is chasing him around and causing him to hide. He doesn't seem that stressed, though. He eats well and I gave...