a good way to tell if you are not feeding enough

alright, im a little pissed off, but thought, in my own twisted way, i could share this with you all, so that you dont have the same misfortune that i do.



i decided to change my tank to a Tetra tank. so, i have a few jelly bean tetra's, some neons, and i replaced my guppys and danios with 7 new rummy nose tetras, and a few otto cats (i know they are not tetras, but they will help with the cleaning) so, i spend a lot of time aclimating them, and they all go in, the otto cats spent 1 min sitting there, then went to work on the algea growth on my rock. the rummy's, 2 of them were fine right off the bat, but the other 5 went into a bit of shock, went colourless, for maybee an hr. my mistake, maybee should of spent more time aclimating. well, i come home a few hrs later, only to see my "alfa" jelly bean tetra, with one of the new rummy's in its mouth. :devil:

so, if this happens to you, you did one of 2 things wrong, you are

A: not feeding the fish enough over all

or


B: you forgot to feed the fish right before you put in the new, smaller tankmates. (i fall into this catagory)


and, as if that isnt bad enough, i just herd my filter stop working. :duh:

they are not chichlids, thats for shure, they are the same size as rummys, when they are both full grown, the jellys are full grown, but the rummys are still youngins, smallest ones are half the size of the jellys.

bs's???? well, when he dropped the rest of the corpse, he seemed to take a shot at one of the other rummys. i fed them, and now they are fine. oh well. i hope it wasnt post mordem, actually, i dont know what i hope. lol

k, you missed the point, the difference between "big fish eats small fish" is not what i was getting at, like sploke said, oscors are going to eat guppies, it just reaction, but passive fish, like the bs tetras, how dont touch the smaller neons in the tank, ate that fish not necisarily because it was agressive, but because it was new, and it had not had a meal that day. when putting in new fish, giving the exsisting fish some food is a good idea, it is more of a distraction than anything. itll help the aclimation process. when we put in some new fish with the oscors at work (we put in some long nose gar) the oscars went right to the bag, and started pecking at it. (keep in mind i work at a fish store, and these are all small fish were talking about) so i put in some food on the opposite side of the tank, and by the time we were ready to let the gar go, the oscors still have not gone back to the bag. so we let the gar go, and what happens, the oscors start harassing the new fish. so we put in a bit more food for the oscors, and they totally forgot about the gar, and every single one of them have been fine. BUT, fedding pelets to the oscors, would not of stoped them from eating something like guppies. its more so when the fish are similar in size that this tequnique helps with keeping harassment down.