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Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 10:53 am
by Lance-Hardwood
Katja, what kind of flakes are you feeding them? If you can tell me the brand that would be great too. My loaches are picky eaters, I have tried a lot of different kinds of food but they won't touch most of them.
Posted: Fri May 14, 2010 12:53 pm
by ch.koenig
hi
as far I can jugde they don't like flakes with "green" ingredients. I use flakes made by an local producer in little quantities (no artificial components) apt for most predators - cichlids in first place.
cheers Charles
Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 4:47 am
by katja
Huhu!
They get different flake mixes, nothing in special. At the moment it's Supervit 8Mix Flakes from Tropical. When I bought them they told me they were german breed, they even gave me the name of the breeder but I don't remember it now, so I thought maybe they were used to non-living food. By now I know they haven't been bred in captivity so this theory doesn't work anymore.
Greeting,
Katja
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:11 pm
by katja
Huhu!
As I promised, a new picture of the tank. I reworked the set-up two days ago, so the plants will have to grow a bit.
http://www.fotos-hochladen.net/sdc15110d5fy3sqv.jpg
Greetings,
Katja
Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 4:49 pm
by Jim Powers
Very nice!
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2010 10:17 am
by Iris76
Hi Katja,
Lovely set-up, looks great.
I have 4 Beaufortia's and i think they are the smartest of the hillstreams i keep. They are always first in finding the foodpallets, no matter where i put the flakes.
I always stick the flakes on another spot in the tank and it's the Beaufortia's who seem to have no trouble with the game, at all. They always find the pellets as first.
They aren't picky, either. They are good eaters.
I feed them Tetra Wafermix, Hikari Algae Wafers and sometimes frozen Artemia or Bloodworms. I tend to stick the pellets to one spot. I let the pellets soak in a few drops of Fishtamin for a minute or so and then push them on a random pebble with my thumb. What i do find difficult, is to find the right format of pellets. Most pellets do what i don't want them to do.
They let loose too soon. The Tetra and Hikari wafers are the only ones that fit the desired profile, so far.
Keep up the good work and it's nice to see more Beaufortia fans on the forum
