I have 6 Dario dario in a 29gal planted (heavily/medium) community tank which were recently added after a week in quarantine. I noticed this morning that a couple appear to have sunken stomachs when they swam up to the glass (I dont remember if they came in like that). My question is, whats a good way to fatten them up in a community tank?
Currently feeding the tank micro pellets and microworms as I have some danio fry in there. They are definitely eating the microworms (as they are bold enough to swim up to the breeder box mesh and eat the worms that sieve out of it), however not sure if this is enough to keep them well fed. Not sure if they are eating any pellets.
Any advice?
All parameters look fine, currently a little green water while I tweak my ferts. Community includes 4 Thick-lipped Gourami juveniles (OMG, if you have not tried these do it. So calm, dont bother anyone in the tank, and will stay small like Dwarf Gouramis without that weird gourami disease going around), 10 Danio choprae, 4 pygmy cories (left over from an older tank), breeder box floating with 7 tiny danio fry. No tank bullying, heavily planted.
my scarlet badis seem to love baby brine shrimp, i keep two hatches going in 2cup plastic measuring cups that hang off the side of an aquarium i use to hold cuttings i'm trying to grow out for my next project. this way i almost always have them ready to feed.
How long have they been eating the micro worms?
Were they eating in quarantine? (A week is on the short side in my opinion, but I also don't quarantine as I have fairly small tanks and relatively few fish, which doesn't really justify not using quarantine, but setting up an additional tank to quarantine six to eight fish that max out around half an inch for six weeks is hard to justify as well)
I like a more diverse selection, altho I have to restart all but my vinegar eel culture as they are the only ones that I was culturing that are able to go quite long periods without crashing or dieing off. Varying the diet helps ballance out what they are getting as no food source is perfect. Micro worms are pretty close in comparison to artemia, but I'm not sure if that is adult or napuli, of course that also depends on what you culture them in. This has some good info on micro worms.
You might just need to keep an eye on them for a bit, maybe switch them back to quarantine with a higher density of micro worms and frequent water changes so that they can eat all day and hopefully get fat and healty. Keep an eye out, if they have a parasite or something, you don't want it to bail an infest something else if they die.
I'm feeding fry in this tank in a breeder box, so the bolder badis hang out but the breeder box holes as I feed the fry MW (I've also been adding some MW's closest to the skinniest badis territories). I dont remember seeing them eat anything I offered to them except the microworms (quarantine included).
I know a week is short. I was planning to have them in there longer, but they seemed really stressed out in the barebottom tank. Immediately colored up and became more active once adding them to the planted tank.
Will these guys also eat vinegar eels, or they too small?
I have the current worm cultures below:
Microworms (MW)
Banana Worms (BW)
Vinegar Eels (VE)
Grindal Worms (GW) - these aren't ready for regular feeding yet
Thats good to know ... I added blackworms to the tank (trying to seed tank) and noticed one had it halfway down its throat. Dont think that'll be a regular feeding though. They all seem to have been picked off over the last couple days.
I just got a daphnia culture, a scud culture, and a grindal work culture.
The badis loved them all.
I've started up small cultures of each to go along with the main cultures.
I'm happy to share if anyone wants some!
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