This has been a challenging week for my little fellas. I tried to wein them off the frozen blood worms and brine shrimp this week. Not so good with the results. I cut back to feeding them once a day to see if they would begin to eat the smaller gold fish. No such luck. Instead they took one of their own as a sacrifice. I was happy because they did eat a real live fish, but why did TuPac have to be the first one to go? LOL They had also taken a huge chunk out of the 2nd to the smallest fish (Pac being the smallest) but it didn't seem to effect him. He had no top fin and there was enough meet missing from there you could see little teeth marks. I am amazed at how fast these guys heal! You can tell a new patch of "skin" has grown back, and he has never had any change in his swimming pattern to make you think he was even hurting. I am curious to see if his top fin will grow back.
Other than the one I lost, all the others are doing great and growing so much. I hope that in a couple weeks they are eating real fish. They gulp down the blood worms and for a couple hours after that, they look as if they are pregnant. Still the first thing that I look at when I get home after work and when I wake up. Never seems to be a dull moment in that tank, unless you were trying to get them to celebrate the new year! They didn't want to come out of hiding last night to give any kisses for anything. Now the true piranha attitude is coming through!
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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