Tank Additions

So it has been five days now and my Amano shrimp and Tiger snails have been feeding on a tank with hair algae, they have feasted day and night and a tank the once had an abundance of algae is relatively stripped clean with very minimal left on a few plants. These tiny little creatures have done the job of getting the tank to a stage that the water parameters are now right for some new additions to the tank in the way of Endlers Livebearers.

I started by trimming a few plants down as unbelievably in such a short space of time they had grown above the water surface. After a little maintenance I then decided to add both Endlers and a few more plants so as to keep the ammonia levels as low as possible in a bid to cause as little stress to the new fish.

Rather than crunching up some fish food and just popping it in the tank to swirl around until what was not eaten sank to the substrate, I thought it best to start training the fish that there would be a place that feeding would happen. A simple and cost effective method was a feeding ring, simply attached to the side of the tank and floating on the surface, it is unobtrusive a yet teaches the fish that the food will float here until they decide to eat it. To say fish have short memory, well they sure know where the food is bing placed and it will not take them long to realise this floating ring is the source of dinner.