Flamboyant

[Paradox]

Neat..Ill have to come visit soon.

 

[Thales]

Anytime! You also have a pm on the BAR site.

 

[Thales]

Have you considered adding one of your Bandensis to the tank to see if the species fight? It could be interesting. Of course, you would want to monitor them closely to make sure neither gets killed or greatly injured.

No way. No how. There would be no utility that I can see in such an experiment.

 

[Thales]

Its doing just fine. Eating a lot of shore shrimp, some isopods and even a bait shrimp the other day. Gonna get some crabs this weekend. Moved to a bigger tank too.
I did find some coconut shell snake houses, and since metasepia have been known to lay eggs in coconut shells...I bought a couple, cleaned them and voila, instant house. If its female, I'll be so happy.
To that end, SHE has only gone in the coconuts a few times, so we'll see!

 

[Thales]

 

[Thales]

She didn't eat yesterday, ignoring shore shrimp in the tank. Today, I dropped some live mysis and she snapped them up right quick.

 

[Nancy]

How large are the mysis you're using? Sounds like a silly question, but they are different sizes.

Nancy

 

[Thales]

Not silly! These are freshwater mysis and I picked out the largest ones I could find - about the size of the large PE mysids.

 

[shipposhack]

That's strange that it will accept the mysids and not the larger shrimp. Do you think she is reaching senescence and is starting to get picky about eating? Maybe the flamboyants prefer smaller food as well.

 

[Thales]

Who knows, I sure hope she isn't going down so soon. Perhaps she is just used to the shore shrimp in with her. I am thinking a lot of metasepia prey and bandensis prey may be smaller than we think.