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Emperor Botia feeding vid's

Post by Mad Duff » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:41 pm

I managed to get a couple of videos of my Emperor botias feeding.

The first 3 that I got were quite skinny but after 5 rounds of levimasole and 1 round of Flubenol they are looking really well.

There are 6 Emperors and 4 Botia histrionca's in the tank.

Here they are getting Mysis shrimp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCyiF9gp2eo

Here they are getting a mixture of Spirulina flake, garlic flakes and earthworm flake, as you can see they love it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCxBTXyVbq4

And as of tomorrow this will be their new home, this is an up to date video of my 7 ft tank:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ncmL47YYk

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Post by Emma Turner » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:56 pm

8) Awesome vids, MD, and a total contrast to my 6 Emperors which are very shy - even at feeding time. I think they may be intimidated by the sheer volume of large clown loaches. It will be interesting to see if the behaviour of yours change when you add some clowns to the 7ft tank with them.

I rarely see any of my 6 together, and if they are it is when one is frantically chasing the other away. Mine also look a lot darker and are very disguised amongst the bogwood when resting.

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Post by Graeme Robson » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:24 pm

Great videos MD! 8)
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Post by daspricey » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:47 pm

Excellent videos!

I love the colouration on both the emperors and histrionica. Really making me jealous. :lol:
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Post by Mark in Vancouver » Sun Oct 14, 2007 4:15 pm

Nice. They appear to really like the pvc tubing.
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Post by Mad Duff » Mon Oct 15, 2007 4:02 am

Thanks for the great comments :D

I think the one thing that is worrying me the most is if they will change personality wise once in the 7ft, they are very outgoing in the quarantine tank and demolish everything. I have built caves with rocks and bogwood that looked great but next morning everything if flat on the bottom of the tank :x , I am just hoping the don't wreck everything in the 7ft.

The PVC tubing was a last resort really, the pipes are cable tied together and then cable tied to the rock which was the only way of making sure they didn't wreck that as well :lol: .

The mixture of flakes has definitely helped build them up and get them eating commercial foods, they just didn't seem to be building up the way I would have expected on frozen foods alone. They took to the spirulina flake straight away and then accepted the garlic and earthworm flakes and will now happily take promin and JMC catfish pellets, this extra diet has helped them build up some weight and they do look really chunky now.
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Post by Whitey_MacLeod » Mon Oct 15, 2007 12:56 pm

Great videos. They look to be in excellent condition 8) I've never seen garlic flake before- could you let me know where you get it? I'm always on the lookout for new food for my guys.
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Post by Blue » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:06 pm

I'm so jealous.8)
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Post by Mad Duff » Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:53 pm

Whitey_MacLeod wrote:I've never seen garlic flake before- could you let me know where you get it? I'm always on the lookout for new food for my guys.
I have just asked my supplier if he has any in stock yet and if he has I will pass on his details to you.

He got a batch of the garlic flake and earthworm to try and gave me some to try on my loaches and when I told him that everything loved the stuff he said he would start to stock it.
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Post by clownloachfan » Tue Oct 16, 2007 12:18 am

Nice vids. They will definitely like all of the current in their new home.
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Post by Mad Duff » Tue Oct 16, 2007 3:56 am

Thanks clownloachfan, I hope so :)

I have just had an email back from my friend who sells the flake foods and he has got the following flakes in stock:

earthworm flakes
brine shrimp flakes
garlic flakes
phyto plankton flakes
tropical medley flakes
beef heart flakes (waiting for stock to arrive)

They all come in 97g tubs at £5.95 per tub plus £1.00 p+p.

If anyone is interested they can contact Eddy by email: eddy_howden@ruto.co.uk

Or through his website were you can see his full range of frozen foods:
http://www.ruto.co.uk/

Just let him know that you got his details from me @ LOL :D

I can highly recommend these flakes to anyone :)
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Post by chefkeith » Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:57 am

Those are some of the coolest looking loaches I've ever seen. All the tanks look magnificent too.
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Post by Mad Duff » Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:57 am

chefkeith wrote:Those are some of the coolest looking loaches I've ever seen. All the tanks look magnificent too.
Thankyou :D

I will try and get some video footage of them in the 7ft tank once settled.

They will be joined by the first group of Clowns going in the 7ft tank on Friday, I cant wait :P
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Post by Graeme Robson » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:31 pm

Mad Duff wrote:Thanks clownloachfan, I hope so :)

I have just had an email back from my friend who sells the flake foods and he has got the following flakes in stock:

earthworm flakes
brine shrimp flakes
garlic flakes
phyto plankton flakes
tropical medley flakes
beef heart flakes (waiting for stock to arrive)

They all come in 97g tubs at £5.95 per tub plus £1.00 p+p.

If anyone is interested they can contact Eddy by email: eddy_howden@ruto.co.uk

Or through his website were you can see his full range of frozen foods:
http://www.ruto.co.uk/

Just let him know that you got his details from me @ LOL :D

I can highly recommend these flakes to anyone :)
Cheers for them links Mark! I'll have to try them some day. 8)
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Post by Mad Duff » Tue Oct 16, 2007 2:48 pm

Definitely worth a try Graeme, even the hillies love the garlic and earthworm flakes. I haven't tried the brine shrimp flakes or the phyto plankton flakes yet but if they are as good as the others I will be giving them a go soon :)
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