Any clean-up crew for my fellas?

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Sun Aug 06, 2006 7:56 pm

I'm pretty sure the answer is no but are there any sort of bottom feeders at all that I could possibly have with my silus or baileyis? My silus ate a piece of one of the green cory's dorsal fins that I tried, within 5 minutes of putting them in the tank. So they quickly got scooped out. Has anyone been able to keep anything with them at all?

tilapia92 · Post by **tilapia92** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:44 am

hmmmm I would try maybe some kind of synodontis. Especially petricola there small but very fast.

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:17 pm

The way my baileyis are going after guppies, I'm not trying anything else.

Rocker · Post by **Rocker** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:24 pm

baileyi - i wouldn't try anything in with mine. i had a shrimp last a fortnight!

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:47 pm

There was one rogue ghost shrimp left in the tank with some guppy fry when I introduced the two baileyis. Unfortunately for the shrimp, he ended up on Lil's side and she seems to be a little more bloodthirsty. He lasted less than 15 minutes. Within 5 minutes of getting into the tank, she'd already snapped up several fry who were a little too nosy and anxious to meet their new playmate.

The rest are now cowering in the upper corner, hiding in the floating plants as much as possible.

Those baileyis are some wicked buggers, eh wot?

Rocker · Post by **Rocker** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:54 pm

any pics yet?

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:02 pm

Well I'm getting the camera from my coworker today so when I get home, hopefully I'll be able to get a few. Buggers are busy giving me heart attacks though. They're either busy swimming around or resting somewhere looking dead.

Lil has found a little divot behind her cave where she likes to lay, which keeps her in a sort of tilted head down position. After awhile, I have to wiggle the shrubbery to make sure she's still alive.

PP gave me a nice artificial stump thing with a little hollowed out section in the front. Lil really likes sleeping in there. I have yet to see her in the slate cave. Phil does like his obsidian cave though, he's in there quite often. Either there or balancing on the tip of one of the plastic val.

Post by **Pufferpunk** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:33 pm

PP gave me a nice artificial stump thing with a little hollowed out section in the front. Lil really likes sleeping in there.

Awwww... that's so cute! I almost didn't give you that piece!

Boxermom · Post by **Boxermom** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:36 pm

She's really adorable in there. I'll be searching all over the tank for her, only to see her curled up in there all snugabug against the side!

Also works as a food bowl, she enjoyed a snack of live blackworms in there yesterday, too.

Hopefully I'll be able to get a picture of her in it so you can see her.

Interestingly, both of them have darkened up a little to a more deep shade of pink since they've been settling in.

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Any clean-up crew for my fellas?

Any clean-up crew for my fellas?