i2canoe
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What a great website. Great to have found this dedicated community.
Last month I started a tank for two Chinese Fire Bellies.
As a kid I used to often try to keep CFBs along with tropical fish. Pets were (and often today) sold without education. Like selling baby turtles with those little plastic turtle bowls.
Imagine housing FBN with tropical fish.
Water too warm, poor diet, no land to climb out on . . . and bad water, in those days I had absolutely NO IDEA about water changes.
No wonder the poor little things used to ultimately escape the tank and perish of dehydration in some corner on the floor.
After a couple of initial mistakes in substrate, first using a gravel small enough to be swallowed, changing to pebbles that trapped food and provided poor rooting for plants, to finally a beautiful fine gravel. Now my FBNs are happy, frisky and always hungry.
They are eating well, really enjoy frozen blood worms. For company there are four guppies in the tank, I figure when they drop their fry the FBNs will have live treats.
Last month I started a tank for two Chinese Fire Bellies.
As a kid I used to often try to keep CFBs along with tropical fish. Pets were (and often today) sold without education. Like selling baby turtles with those little plastic turtle bowls.
Imagine housing FBN with tropical fish.
Water too warm, poor diet, no land to climb out on . . . and bad water, in those days I had absolutely NO IDEA about water changes.
No wonder the poor little things used to ultimately escape the tank and perish of dehydration in some corner on the floor.
After a couple of initial mistakes in substrate, first using a gravel small enough to be swallowed, changing to pebbles that trapped food and provided poor rooting for plants, to finally a beautiful fine gravel. Now my FBNs are happy, frisky and always hungry.
They are eating well, really enjoy frozen blood worms. For company there are four guppies in the tank, I figure when they drop their fry the FBNs will have live treats.
