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Blackbird,
I think I have it. It’s the general CPD pdf, right? I renamed it when I downloaded it. If you PM me your email address, I will forward it on to you. It’s about 4MB.
Beautiful little tank, Alex. Thanks for sharing.
I have glosso too, and it has me concerned. I now have a 1.5 to 2″ layer all around my tank as it keeps growing back over itself. I’m going to have to deal with it sooner or later.
What’s the plant in back just to the right of the rock? I’ve been wanting a plant like that for my tank.
Looking forward to your fish pics.
Glenn,
Hope I didn’t miss this info above, but would you mind telling us what brand of shrimp pellets you use? I would like to try these out.
Very nice and informative post, by the way … thanks.
Celestialdude,
Thanks for the welcome and the tip … I’ll give frozen bloodworms a try. Before I got the BBS breeder, I went out and bought some live bloodworms occasionally. Unfortunately, only a couple of the CPDs were usually able to get one because the cardinal tetras usually beat them all to the punch. This may have been more because of a lack of interest on the CPDs’ side, because they definitely get their share of BBS. I think my CPDs were a little too small for live bloodworms … it would take one minutes to swallow the entire thing. Frozen bloodworms are easier to swallow probably.
Our experiences are very similar…
I bought 12 CPDs a couple of months ago, but I paid a lot more than you! $8 a piece.
I have them in a 50G tank with 24 cardinal tetras, 11 panda cory cats, 7 cherry shrimp, 2 amano shrimp and 1 true SAE — I had 3 SAEs, but 2 of them jumped from the tank one nite.
All of these fish get along very well and even seem to enjoy each others’ company. Cardinal tetras must be very gentle — mine are about 2″ long (maybe more), but they leave the little CPDs alone, even during feeding time.My CPDs (and tetras) are shy also, but are definitely improving after these couple of months. One simple thing I can do to get them to come out is to get down on my knees next to the tank. They do not like me standing there as a towering figure. As soon as I kneel down with my chin at gravel level, they come out and swim right up to the glass even.
My CPDs have never eaten from the surface — I wish they would, so I didn’t have to bother wetting and sinking the food at feeding times.
If I sit in my room about 8 feet from the tank and wait long enough, my CPDs will seemingly play during the day, especially after a BBS feeding. They chase each other around in a playful way. One CPD even swam up and broke the surface of the water the other day during play time. I hope the CPDs won’t jump from the tank as they get older.
I’ve heard that it is tough to get almost-starved fish healthy again, but if you are getting them to eat baby brine shrimp (BBS), I’d think that most of your scrawny ones will recover. Mine love BBS also (I feed these 3 times per week usually).
I’ve been out of town on business trips 3 of the last 4 weeks. When I get home, I want to try breeding these little things. I have a 10G tank set up and ready to go.
Regards,
Ted
