Originally Posted by
Tshethar
Thanks, Adam. Helpful read! Turns out we have more in common that shaking our heads at Ian Kinsler's "gold glove" defense late in the night, as I have two (small!) tanks full of red cherry shrimp, endlers, and a tank dedicated to blue-eyed bristenose. I'm happy to add my encouragement to anyone thinking about any of these. Don't have as much experience as Adam with any of them, but have had fun with all of them.
I had been planning to get advice on feeding the BN fry from you as I've had a very laissez-faire approach to the BN tank and it seems as though a lot of them starve. They're in a 40 breeder and it may be that they don't move around enough to find food, or recognize it that well, and I've hesitated to add too much for fear of polluting the tank, and gunking up the power filter with Poret prefilter I use. (I have about three generations of fish, but really only a handful from each hatch.) I tried regular-cut canned green beans a month or so ago, but they seem to mostly float around and start turning to mush. In the past the parents ate blanched broccoli stems really well, but having a few of those around wasn't enough to raise fish. Only thing they're reliably eating right now are Hikari sinking wafers. I also have some Repashy they seem okay with when I use that. It sounds like I should try some frozen BBS... Open to ideas. Also, you've got me thinking about my HMF 40 kit I have sitting in a box.... I was going to use it to control tank floor space for when I move the discus grow-outs, but I find myself thinking that it's really best suited to the BN tank!
Anyway, thanks for the info! Hope other discus people have some fun with all of these critters. They're great! :)