Sorry you missed the meeting! The RMCA had a great turnout for Ricks' presentation. The video recording of the presentation should be available for viewing in the next week or so. ~ Glenn
Tropheus Hack: Pond. Tub style is best. Filtration should have a carb to inject air and move as much gallonage as you can. ua-cam.com/video/9cEguuBDhKU/v-deo.html Brightest most extreme lighting you can use. Vigorous current is crucial for the healthiness of a Tropheus Two inches of mud (Years worth of coffee grounds, duckweed, plus top soil) on the bottom. Add in couple bottles of minerals. (Actually I just used multi vitamins but we wont tell anyone.) Cover with 4 inches of sand. Go to a pond grab a scoop of critters. Seed the substrate with blackworms. Add in some yeast for the daphnia. Add in some cherry shrimp. Plant with Vallisneria. Water lettuce. Add in a patch of rocks on one side. Chicken bones, Rib bones are great to feed the shrimp, dead fish. Vegetables about to go bad. The blackworms and the shrimp will made short work of the material. After 4 months add in some feeder guppies. The blackworms will completely engulf a leftover lamb rib. Shrimp, do they ever stop eating... More food=more shrimp Planaria, Daphnia, Hydra, snails, blackworms, cherry shrimp, guppies Two weeks before you add the tropheus do not add anymore meat to the tank for the shrimp, just flake food. This will allow the populations to stabilize more. In my 125 I have a population of 10 Tropheus Moori Fire Cracker. Five Lelupi. Five Gold head head compressiceps , 5. J. Marlieri, a population of feeder guppies from as low as 7 to as many as 30. So this never jibed with me about this ultra sterile environment for Tropheus. Lake Tanganyika all these types of things are present plus jellyfish. 400 gallon pond is completely self sustaining.
Looking good, guys!!!
Always Impressive. Thanks for featuring Tropheus. Show your Illangi colony soon!!!
Great footage😍. Thank you
Beautiful!
Great video!!!!
Your right Rick slow steps wild fish need their time to transition in to captivity and eat pellet
woa, so Beautiful. i have one question: My i ask what is the size of your tank? i'm from Việt Nam. Thank Sir
My Dad and I missed the Rocky Mountain meeting. Can you post that video for us to watch?
Sorry you missed the meeting! The RMCA had a great turnout for Ricks' presentation. The video recording of the presentation should be available for viewing in the next week or so. ~ Glenn
@@FloridaExoticFishSales Cant wait. Thank you!
Tropheus Hack:
Pond. Tub style is best.
Filtration should have a carb to inject air and move as much gallonage as you can. ua-cam.com/video/9cEguuBDhKU/v-deo.html
Brightest most extreme lighting you can use.
Vigorous current is crucial for the healthiness of a Tropheus
Two inches of mud (Years worth of coffee grounds, duckweed, plus top soil) on the bottom.
Add in couple bottles of minerals. (Actually I just used multi vitamins but we wont tell anyone.)
Cover with 4 inches of sand.
Go to a pond grab a scoop of critters.
Seed the substrate with blackworms.
Add in some yeast for the daphnia.
Add in some cherry shrimp.
Plant with Vallisneria. Water lettuce. Add in a patch of rocks on one side.
Chicken bones, Rib bones are great to feed the shrimp, dead fish. Vegetables about to go bad. The blackworms and the shrimp will made short work of the material.
After 4 months add in some feeder guppies. The blackworms will completely engulf a leftover lamb rib. Shrimp, do they ever stop eating... More food=more shrimp
Planaria, Daphnia, Hydra, snails, blackworms, cherry shrimp, guppies
Two weeks before you add the tropheus do not add anymore meat to the tank for the shrimp, just flake food.
This will allow the populations to stabilize more.
In my 125 I have a population of 10 Tropheus Moori Fire Cracker. Five Lelupi. Five Gold head head compressiceps , 5. J. Marlieri, a population of feeder guppies from as low as 7 to as many as 30.
So this never jibed with me about this ultra sterile environment for Tropheus. Lake Tanganyika all these types of things are present plus jellyfish.
400 gallon pond is completely self sustaining.