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New to Natives: Maine Native Tank

Started by Crazyblade1209 , May 11 2015 01:40 PM

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#61 Crazyblade1209

NANFA Guest

Limington, Maine

Posted 15 May 2015 - 09:04 AM

Ok, thats what I've been doing.

#62 predatorkeeper87

NANFA Guest

pennsylvania

Posted 15 May 2015 - 09:11 AM

they'll come around, give them time. Also if I were you, I'd get some Hikari carnivore sinking pellets and some floating carni-sticks. They are a great pellet and fish seem to take to them far quicker. Just in my experience that is.

#63 Michael Wolfe

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North Georgia, Oconee River Drainage

Posted 15 May 2015 - 04:24 PM

sometimes a floating shrimp or krill will get them used to the idea that its you that throws stuff in the tank... then they will start striking anything you throw in... then you can switch to a pellet.

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#64 Crazyblade1209

NANFA Guest

Limington, Maine

Posted 16 May 2015 - 12:39 PM

I just cleaned the tank and theres some weird white floaty stuff that I got a lot of out but it seems like theres the same amount

#65 fishlvr

NANFA Guest

Savannah, GA

Posted 17 May 2015 - 07:50 PM

Not sure if it was mentioned yet but you should be very careful taking freshwater mussels. Many are endangered and don't do well in tanks either (at least to my knowledge). But otherwise welcome to the forum! You'll soon find out there are many many options for native keeping!

Steve Knight

Lower Ogeechee/Ogeechee Coastal Drainage

#66 Crazyblade1209

NANFA Guest

Limington, Maine

Posted 17 May 2015 - 08:13 PM

I made sure that the mussel wasn't endangered before I decided to keep it, although I assumed it wasn't because they are absolutely everywhere. So far it seems to do ok, still alive at least haha

#67 fishlvr

NANFA Guest

Savannah, GA

Posted 17 May 2015 - 08:58 PM

Good to hear man. Good luck with it!

Steve Knight

Lower Ogeechee/Ogeechee Coastal Drainage

#68 don212

NANFA Member

Posted 18 May 2015 - 07:32 AM

be careful, they bury themselves die and pollute your aquarium in a hurry.

#69 Crazyblade1209

NANFA Guest

Limington, Maine

Posted 18 May 2015 - 09:13 AM

Ive been checking every day just to make sure because I did hear if they die they make it nasty quickly.

#70 Crazyblade1209

NANFA Guest

Limington, Maine

Posted 21 May 2015 - 09:03 PM

UPDATE: My fish have finally started taking fish food. After around seven days of nothing to eat they decided (with the guidance of the sunfish) it was time to eat. My sunfish was attacking anything that dropped in. I also added 5 tiny feeder fish (that came from a amazing looking aquarium funny enough) and they were eaten immediately. Thank you everyone for helping me get started! Cant wait till I can try to do another tank! (probably be a while though, until I have more experience

#71 predatorkeeper87

NANFA Guest

pennsylvania

Posted 29 May 2015 - 05:38 AM

UPDATE: My fish have finally started taking fish food. After around seven days of nothing to eat they decided (with the guidance of the sunfish) it was time to eat. My sunfish was attacking anything that dropped in. I also added 5 tiny feeder fish (that came from a amazing looking aquarium funny enough) and they were eaten immediately. Thank you everyone for helping me get started! Cant wait till I can try to do another tank! (probably be a while though, until I have more experience

glad to hear it, welcome to the native fish addiction.