brishe Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I have been raising baby bristlenoses for the last month. They are doing really well and the majority are growing well(except for a couple of runts) They are about 2 - 3 cms at the moment and the two goldens are about 5cms. When i was doing a water change yesterday one had died and as carefully looking around at the others i noticed they had stringy poo.(Hex??) I can get Metro from the vets but are these guys too small?? And is liquid or tablets better to use?? Food or in water?? They are in 25 litres, PH 7.0, ammonia nil, nitrites nil. I have treated our main tank for hex recently with success, there was no cross contamination, the liquid added to the water really stressed them and some neons died so i made up medicated food. which works ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 7, 2007 Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Sorry don't know, how the meds will go with them being babies. How is their tank set up & what you feeding them. if the diet is strictly algae based, spirulina & the like. Do you also have a nice piece of wood for them to chew on? Prevention is better than cure. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brishe Posted April 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2007 Sorry don't know, how the meds will go with them being babies. How is their tank set up & what you feeding them. if the diet is strictly algae based, spirulina & the like. Do you also have a nice piece of wood for them to chew on? Prevention is better than cure. Frenchy We had trouble with high nitrite at the beginning, that may have been the cause as the tank took ages to cycle. The temp is 27c, aqua clear power filter, drift wood, they have a peice of zucchini every day as well as some algae wafers i normally alternate between them, the zucchini is prefered though. they all seem well though but a few of them are trailing whitish stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 i remember reading an account of a lady using it in her discus tank that had several hundred baby bristlenose and they were fine. perhaps planetcatfish would be able to advise you if it was ok or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke* Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Metro in food is much more effective. Goodluck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanjury Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ive used metro in a tank with bristlenoses and I think they were egg's at the time.. they're all sweet.. And I used one 400mg tab per 40litres of water, I also used it in the food but had to do the water cuz some of the fish were off their food.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brishe Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 Metro in food is much more effective. Goodluck Have you got any good recipes for adding metro to? and do you use the liquid or tablets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 i add my metro to the fishes favourite food normally. tetra bits absorb it well and most fish readily accept them, i also have some in a beefheart recipie but if your BN are still eating why not use algae wafers? when i made mine up i got the mg/gram of food dosage, measured out the food and metro accordingly, dissolved the metro into a tincy bit of water then soaked the food in it and popped it in the freezer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brishe Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 i add my metro to the fishes favourite food normally. tetra bits absorb it well and most fish readily accept them, i also have some in a beefheart recipie but if your BN are still eating why not use algae wafers? when i made mine up i got the mg/gram of food dosage, measured out the food and metro accordingly, dissolved the metro into a tincy bit of water then soaked the food in it and popped it in the freezer So are tablets better?? I have got some liquid at the moment and have treated our main tank by making up some food and adding the liquid then freezing it and feeding it directly to the fish but the food dissolves so fast i wonder how much metro they are actually getting. maybe if i added the algae wafers to the liquid and let it absorb it might work too like you said. thanks, hex seems to be the bain of my life at the moment , lol !!!! and the fishes. The water perimetres have all been really good in both tanks so im not sure why i am so unlucky to keep getting it i know it can be sress related i hate to think my fishes are stressed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Posted April 9, 2007 Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I have seen a similar thing to what Sharn describes above. Except the mix was rooled into a scone consistancy, then made into aspirin sized balls and flattened slightly so that they looked like multi coloured pills. He just used flake food as the binder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brishe Posted April 9, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2007 I have seen a similar thing to what Sharn describes above. Except the mix was rooled into a scone consistancy, then made into aspirin sized balls and flattened slightly so that they looked like multi coloured pills. He just used flake food as the binder. That is a great help thanks, Its hard to know with 19 babies who is eating it though and getting any meds if any as they all come to eat at different times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharn Posted April 10, 2007 Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 if you have metro liquid that will be way easier to put into food than dissolving up tablets! (as long as you know the % it is of course) sadly, short of seperating every single BN out you may have to take the chance that you will save some and you may not save others, its up to you whether you want to set up some little contraption (several breeding traps?) to keep single ones in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brishe Posted April 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 10, 2007 if you have metro liquid that will be way easier to put into food than dissolving up tablets! (as long as you know the % it is of course) sadly, short of seperating every single BN out you may have to take the chance that you will save some and you may not save others, its up to you whether you want to set up some little contraption (several breeding traps?) to keep single ones in. I know, i have been giving them medicated food and they seem ok, alot of them had stopped showing signs of it before i started treatment but i think i will continue with it and do my daily ware changes aswel. sorry one last question, in a group of bristlenoses, is it common to have some that are tiny and some that are large? out of a group of 18 there are three that look like they havnt grown at all but the others are about three times the size. they were all the same size when i brought them. or could it be that they are just infected with hex? they are eating etc and are really active i would of thought if it was hex that they would of died by now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caryl Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 They will grow at different rates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herefishiefishie Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Same as Caryl on growth rates, they can differ. Frenchy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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