beginner help

[RuevenM at aol_com]

Hi Gabriele,

you wrote:

<< I give them fruit flies and live artemia (adult brine shrimp), it look that
 they don't eat fruit flies and just a pair of artemia each fish, is that
 normal or they are maybe very stressed from the transport?>>>


       They sound stressed. Some killies take awhile to find the flies if 
they have never had them and some killies are not wild about brine shrimp. 
You might try live baby brine shrimp, chopped up blackworms or tubifex worms, 
grindal worms or whiteworms. Mosquito larvae and bloodworms (red mosquito 
larvae) are always good, They will eat more when settled. Give them lots of 
hiding places and floating plants.

 <<<>>>

    Sounds good.

 >>>>the crom. bitaeniatum and the fund. filamentosus are mop spawner and the
 aph. Hera is bottom peat spawner, is that true?>>>>

     Filamentosus is a bottom spawner -- either bottom mops, gravel or peat 
moss. Bitaeniatum is a mop spawner. I would use several mops with them that 
go from the top of the water all the way to the bottom and then drape across 
the bottom a few inches. I don't know about hera.


 >>4 galllon without filter are nice for a pair (50% weekly water change)?>>>
  
        That's fine, but I prefer filters.


Regards,
Robert
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