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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

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

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

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

David

Neat!

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

Emma Turner wrote:I have about 20 Vaillantella in there

Some folks have all the luck

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

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.

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.

Thanks all!

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