Help!!!

[boulderman1]

:help: i have a 37 gal with 1 ropefish, 1 neon blue dwarf gourami, 3 german blue rams, 1 black veil angel and 5 red-eye tetras, the tetras are sooo fast that when i feed, they eat all the food before any of the other fish can even smell it, it's awful, i don't know what to do other than get rid of them, help!!!

thanks

 

[Rbishop]

Some sinking food pellets?

 

[boulderman1]

they grab them in their mouths before they get halfway down the tank, nothing gets past them, if i place them on the bottom, they immediately go to the bottom and suck them up, even if they're too big to swallow, they just hold them in their mouths, their like little pirranahs

 

[plah831]

Maybe try this brand of sinking wafer: Bio-Blend bottom feeder wafers by MarineLand (the sme folks who make BioSpira). They're different from other wafers because they're slow-dissolving, so won't foul your water as much. Also, because they stay firm for a longer period of time, all the fish get a chance to eat some. Other wafers will soften very quickly, so the tetras (or any other greedy fish) will be able to gobble them up without giving the other fish a chance. This way, maybe the tetras would lose interest in them :huh:
http://www.marineland.com/products/mllabs/bioblend/bioblend_bottomfeed.asp
http://www.petdiscounters.com/catalog/BioBlend_Bottom_Feeder_Food-p-1157236.html

I had a good experience with this kind of food, as it allowed my upside-down catfish to get food, even though I have lots of other fish (the upside down cats are the last to come out at night).

I've had fish that were so greedy, they wouldn't even let any other fish eat. I have a male molly who will literally guard the wafers and chase anybody else away. I was going to get rid of him, but my boyfriend liked him too much ("he's feisty") so we got him another tank. He lives in permanent "time-out" but he doesn't mind. He's got lots of live plants to swim through and snails as a clean-up crew. Don't know if you like the tetras enough to use this solution.

 

[iktomiwicasa]

Feeding tube

Get a length of 3/4" pvc pipe or something similar long enough to reach the bottom. Place sinking food in the tube, and distract the little boogers with flake at the top. The sinking food will make it to the bottom without the tetras getting to it, and give the bottom fish a chance to eat.

 

[naps]

Get a length of 3/4" pvc pipe or something similar long enough to reach the bottom. Place sinking food in the tube, and distract the little boogers with flake at the top. The sinking food will make it to the bottom without the tetras getting to it, and give the bottom fish a chance to eat.

:idea:

 

[blkwdw13]

What about trying to hand feed the fish.