Y. sidthimunki & V. maassi feeding time

[Emma Turner]

As promised, here is a little vid I took last night of my Yasuhikotakia sidthimunki and Vaillantella maassi feeding. Here they can be seen eating the Hikari Sinking Carnivore pellets (broken up) which we've been talking about in a recent thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_Xz7BAFY5A

It's a shame a lot of the quality is lost when uploading to YouTube, but I haven't found a better alternative.

Hope you enjoyed it,

Emma

[Mad Duff]

Great video Emma

hat is not a combination that I would have thought would work with the Vaillantella maassi been a shy feeder, do you find that they get bullied off the food by the sids?

I have Pangio's with my sids and they tend to hold their own when it comes to feeding but the Vaillantella maassi may be worth thinking about

[Emma Turner]

Thanks MD. I have been keeping an extra close eye on this tank 'just in case', but in no way are the Sids stopping the Vaillantella from feeding. I have about 20 Vaillantella in there with about 15 Sids. The Vaillantella are getting very deep bodied and chunky. I have even seen them steal pellets from the Sids mouths, so once you have acclimatised the Vaillantella to a 'captive diet' this combination works very well. I wouldn't, however, recommend mixing them until confident that the Vaillantella are feeding well and are used to the foods.

Emma

[daspricey]

Great video Emma! Really healthy, beautiful fish as usual!

David

[Mark in Vancouver]

Neat!

[Bully]

Great vid, I've just sat mesmerised for the past 5 mins

I have about 20 Vaillantella in there

Some folks have all the luck

[mickthefish]

nice vid Emma, i to thought the same as mark about the maassi being with the sids.
but as youv'e proved they are compatible.

mick

[Jim Powers]

Cool video!
I would love to see my V. maassi that much. I mostly just get to see the tail of mine. He keeps getting larger though so I know he is eating.

[NancyD]

Wow, your maassi are much faster feeders than mine but with the sids they have to be. Mine are sort of slow stalkers unless a pangio or other maassi tries to get there first, then the alpha bites dorsal fins.

I had to move the other "extrovert" who got beaten up a bit but wouldn't go hide. Mine are not nearly as shy as I expected, well 1 hides a lot of the time. The alpha even comes over to the front sometimes where I sit to tend them. Very cool fish.

[Emma Turner]

Thanks all!

[piggy4]

Argh , I cant see this film at the library they have web sense stopping all the youtube stuff .