Update day 2 10/5/12
From now on the daily update will be posted in red so you can skip the other discussions in this if you like.
Today i started them on their real feeding regime. I feed them at 9 am, 12 am, 3 pm, 6 pm, 9 pm. 3 feedings of flakes/pellets (whatever they decide they like the most), 1 feeding of bloodworms (just until i get my freeze dried blackworms from ken i ordered otday), and 1 feeding of beefheart. I do the 50% water change after their last feeding at 9pm. It currently takes me 15min to do it but with the system ive devised it should only take me about 10min once i get the tubing and the extra pump for it. Will post pictures of it when i get it set up on here. I vacuum up anything i see 10min after each feeding and enough water to take about 10% out and fill it back up(i dont do this intentionaly it just gets this low after vacuuming so newer people please dont think you have to do this lol). Total time i spend each day on them is around 25minutes if you dont include the 10min or so after each feeding. Seems like alot of work but to me and im sure everybody else this doesn't feel like work at all. (im sure i wont feel the same way after a year though lol). They, to my surprise actually liked hte veggie flakes more then anything (except the beefheart of course). Was afraid they wouldn't eat them but they gobbled it up. Since they wont eat from the surface yet i just soak the flakes in a small bowl of tank water and dump it in, most sink right away and they take it from there. Same goes with the pellets. They dont seem too interested in the bloodworms but most did eat them, im sure they will go nuts over the blackworms when i get em though. As ussual i had to feed em 2 servings of the beefheart they couldn't get enough of it. Theres still 2-3 that arent really eating but they are showing interest in it so i hope within a few days they will get their appetite going. As for their coloring i can already tell a difference in some of the blue on their heads. Its much more visible today and pretty much all them have really lightened up. 3 of them you can hardly see their bars at all, except for the one that isnt looking so great. If you want to know more on that read above this. They are also starting to go to the top of the tank when i go up and lift up the lid now so i was excited about that as well lol. That pretty much wraps up my daily update for today now onto the pics.
They are starting to settle in more
This guys colors are really starting to show
This guy is the best eater of them all he is willing to leave the group to grab some flakes. Hes always the first to rush across the tank and attack the food.
Wont have too big of an update tomorrow because i will be going out of town for half the day, but will definitely still do an update. Thanks everybody so far for the comments and help provided, really appreciate it.