black ghost knife- help please!

Your shop advised you badly.

If you were going to add salt, this is a seriously unregulated way of doing it. How do you know how much has gone in? You'd need to sit down with a calculator and work out how much has dissolved, how much removed in water changes, and so on.

RTR has a fine article (rapidly becoming virtually fishkeeping internet Scripture) at http://www.aaquaria.com/aquasource/salt.shtml which examines the salt question, the myths and some actual facts.
 
yes, true...i see your point. I doubt I would be able to take him back to the store if he was around for that length of time. i do love the fish i have now...escpecially my silver dollars who have grown from tiny little things to the size they are now.

why then does the store have a pile of BGK's in one tank? is it because they are young yet? also..thought i read that bgks together are alright, but not a bgk and an elephant nose....sorry...you're right..2 BGK's aren't ok...

http://boeing_dude.tripod.com/id127.htm
 
Really.. try the frozen brine shrimp...he/she would LOVE it! Ghosts generally dont eat flakes or pellets....just live or frozen foods.... I would not try live foods though...your tetras might become dinner...stick with Frozen..you dont lose much and its CHEAPER!


At the LFS, they pack them in. So, in groups, they are fine. You cant have 2,3, or 4. You would have to have 5 or more to keep more than one, so the aggression is not all on one fish, but spread out...

read some articles on the web..you can train them to eat out of your hand. Eventually, they will come out during the daylight hours more often. esp. around feeding time! It may take a while though..
 
It was the same thing with my elephant nose...the first few weeks....he was ALWAYS hiding...I thought he would die of starvation. But, he "got used" to his tank and now when I feed frozen brine shrimp (every night at 7pm with lights ON) he is the first to eat. He even out competes against the 10 inch tinfoils... He LOVES brine shrimp...

He swims out during the day as well.. MANY times..
 
Thanks for all the info.
I've had tanks for years upon years, but I'm not in anyway or even close to being an expert at it. Actually I just found this forum site so i'll be back on occasion to learn new things.

does anyone know of any kind of plants that silver dollars or the other clan WONT eat? i have no live plants in my tank because everything i put in there vanishes. go figure.
 
I dont know about other poeple, but My tinfoils even ate the plants that normally fish dont eat...like Java moss. Silver dollars are also herbavorves (plant eaters), so I think all you can do is get the one brand of plants that actually looks REAL! I forget that brand name though...
 
i don't know, but doubt if you guys agree with this, but this is my fake plant solution that works well/looks good and is cost effective ...

I do have a couple fish store purchased fake plants but i find them REALLY REALLY expensive and the quality is crap. For good coverage plants I take a trip to walmart to the decorators section where the loose artificial plants are. i buy strands of plain plant stems and bunch them together or i buy a plain leaf ivy like strand to drape down the glass on the inside. I also look and make sure there is no kind of coating on them before i buy and wash them well before i stick them in the tank. I did this FIRST before i had fish and stuck in a couple fish at a time. it works good and the plants are super cheap and compared to the fish store plants they don't compare. the fish store plants fade too quick. i think they're a joke.

some may say that these plants aren't the actual habitat plants they would see in the wild, but my purpose was to provide safe coverage for the fish and make it look good at a reasonable cost.
 
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