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#1 Riggers

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Posted 24 December 2015 - 06:27 PM

So now I've got myself a little QLD Saratoga Leichardti I'm going to take regular pics and update on a monthly basis.
I'm super excited to have one of these, I've never kept them before so should be good :)

So pic 1, this is a preemptive January pic, 5cm, eating well on NLS brine shrimp and hikari

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#2 Redevilz

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Posted 24 December 2015 - 09:58 PM

Awesome!!! Nice fish Riggers, keep us posted!!

#3 Buccal

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Posted 24 December 2015 - 11:34 PM

The drovers fish monger sells Antarctic silver fish frozen into a block the size of a brick.
They are roughly 10-30mm long and very skinny and white,,, similar to white bait type flesh.
It's soft and breaks apart easy.
I use to feed Malawi predators once a week with these.

A hack saw will allow you to cut 2cm blocks at a time to defrost......

One brick would see your fish grow to the size where it would start to need bigger size foods.

That's if your not going to pursue the "pellets only" thing in the long term, that is.

#4 Riggers

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Posted 27 December 2015 - 10:01 AM

I'm definately down with the big block of food, I don't think it will fit in my freezer though lol :)

#5 Buccal

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Posted 27 December 2015 - 10:35 AM

Saw it up into Muslie bar size planks,,,,, then fill in the vacant voids of your freezer space,,,, Hah ha lol.

#6 Riggers

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Posted 27 December 2015 - 01:22 PM

Haha good plan!!

#7 Riggers

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 06:21 PM

Here's February's pic :) getting bigger, grown about 1.5cm this month, feeding really well on a good variety of fresh and pellet foods.

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#8 Peckoltia

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 09:06 PM

Cool fish.

 

But these pics are taking me back to 1995 when digital cameras had a floppy disk in them.



#9 Buccal

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Posted 01 February 2016 - 09:12 PM

Lol

#10 bigjohnnofish

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 12:16 AM

if ya wanna grow your own feeders so you know they are clean i always have blonde endlers to start yourself a colony :)


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#11 ice

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 11:12 AM

Need to come grab some more of them some day Johnno, the last lot didn't make it :)

 

The bloody shrimp have survived and thrived though so have become a natural food source, can hear the jack hunting them at night time :)



#12 bigjohnnofish

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Posted 02 February 2016 - 04:45 PM

thats cool - i hear redtail thrashing around at night sometimes too... 

 

some blonde endler feeders going to the auction tonight 






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