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bottom oriented fish are better kept with dithers - in nature there is Always the risk of being eaten by a bvird, but bottom oriented fish are not really suited to watching overflying birds. They let others do the watching, and only appear when it is safe. That is, when other fishes show themselves....

THE problem with feeding canned tune is not a taste of blood. The problem is that fish meat only contains proteins - and it is very poor in vitamins or minerals. If one would feed their fish the guts instead of the meat, the fish would benefit a lot. But even then, this would only be a good idea in ...

Why not raw sweet potato? Or else cooked?

Baking is basically tenderizing in fat, and fat is something quite rare in nature.

But perhaps I'm wrong, baked beans are not fat either.

mine only get flakes

I ever feed those, BUT I only feed flakes, and the manufacturer does add a lot of vitamins to the flakes.

In case anyone would feed mostly frozen dead animals, I would assume adding vitamins would be a good idea. Alternatively feeding less for the fridge and more flakes would be a good idea too.

With regfard to substrate, sand is Always better than gravel, but for some fish, such as Rasbora they don't really care.


Sidhymuncky is a social fish, which is a lot of fun

Looks like some barb to me. Not a loach, the belly is too curved for that

That's quite expensive, more than two dollars for a kilo

on the topic of sand many opinions excist.

Some people like filter sand, others playing sand - I myself got my sand from a road builder.

It was loaded with clay, but in all reality, this has never bothered me. In fact, I'm happy the sand is usable for growing plants

It would help if you add your location.

Even if I found some, I wonder whether you would be happy knowing somewhere in the Neterlands you'll find them

A bare bottom tank has two problems: 1 the reflections 2 the bottom is very, very hard I think all fishes will have to adapt to the reflections, and only those who live above a rocky surface will not have to adapt to the hardness of the bottom. In Dutch loaches are called modderkruipers, which can b...

I've seen this kind of questions more often, and they Always surprize me. Surprize, because I keep plants in almost all my tanks, and frankly, I hardly do anything to grow them. CO2 is something I never add, in fact I've once been kicked from a forum for advocating not using it . What I do is - I us...

I've never eaten Echionodorus. I did try Ceratopteris, it was rather sharp. It is supposed to be eaten by people in Thailand. However, if you plant Echinodorus, you will neet to shorten the roots. Doing so, some species give quite a pungent smell. I don't think the popular hybrids do so, but the pla...

DE does not refer to Deutschland, Germany, I think?

Generally speakig, I ´ve had very bad experiences with loaches and Echionodorus. Cryptocoryne is fine. Some E plants are left in peach, I noticed, those are the ones with the stongest smell in their roots. Perhaps this helps, assuming you know the typical smell all E plants have when you cut their r...