Feeding routine
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 8:30 am
Hi,
Can I check..
When I rescued my two GSP the pet shop had told the last owner to feed them one cube of blood worm every other day, which is what he did.
When I went back to the same shop and bought frozen shell-on foods I was told the same, "Alternate the food and feed every other day.", again this is exactly what I have been doing.
They are about 2" tip of tail to tip of nose, is every other day OK, everything I have read says every day until they are older?
One other thing, when I go to the tank they get quite excited and greet me, the larger one (also more dominant one, can chase the smaller one away during feeding) can get scared, move the side of the tank and swim up and down as if he is looking at himself in the glass, this often culminates in him doing a splash at the top of the tank. The smaller one will simply blink and follow my face and finger on the front of the tank.
I should add, he only does the swimming up and down when I'm at the tank, other times they just explore the tank so it's not boredom.
When they see me holding the food dish, the story is different and they both act the same..... begging
One of them took a nip out of my hand yesterday while was moving some weed, made me jump....
Second week of adding marine salt and at .004 now and they are happy and parameters good.
Can I check..
When I rescued my two GSP the pet shop had told the last owner to feed them one cube of blood worm every other day, which is what he did.
When I went back to the same shop and bought frozen shell-on foods I was told the same, "Alternate the food and feed every other day.", again this is exactly what I have been doing.
They are about 2" tip of tail to tip of nose, is every other day OK, everything I have read says every day until they are older?
One other thing, when I go to the tank they get quite excited and greet me, the larger one (also more dominant one, can chase the smaller one away during feeding) can get scared, move the side of the tank and swim up and down as if he is looking at himself in the glass, this often culminates in him doing a splash at the top of the tank. The smaller one will simply blink and follow my face and finger on the front of the tank.
I should add, he only does the swimming up and down when I'm at the tank, other times they just explore the tank so it's not boredom.
When they see me holding the food dish, the story is different and they both act the same..... begging
One of them took a nip out of my hand yesterday while was moving some weed, made me jump....
Second week of adding marine salt and at .004 now and they are happy and parameters good.