Hotel Kitchen

I have extended the food range in the hotel's kitchen to cater for the Leopard Cories (Corydoras julii). I now also use TetraPrima at feeding time, which is a slow sinking granular food. The Danios love to grab the granules as they sink down, but as the granules are still dry, they are quickly spat out. Once the granules have been sitting on the bottom for a while, they become soft enough to eat. As the Cories make their rounds they find the granules which they appear to suck up as they hover above them. Occasionally the Danios will find the soft granules before the Cories do, leaving them going hungry for the evening. I am hoping to get some live food at some point, but that will be later when the hotel has a few more guests.

Fussy Guests

Over the last few days I have been feeding the Danio's TetraMin flakes and they are quite fussy about which flakes they like to eat. It appears that the general consensus amongst the Danios are the red flakes are not for them. Each time they eat a red flake, it is quickly spat out and they are off to find a better tasting morsel. Guess the red flakes will become food for the bottom feeders when I get them.

I tried to take some photos of them, but because they move so fast, it is impossible to get a decent shot. So I have resorted to getting some images from the web.

Zebra Danio

Leopard Danio

I have done a little experiment with trying to film the Danios, turned out a bit better (it looks grainy because Blogger saved it under a different resolution after the upload) than any photos I took, but will have to improve my directing skills as none of the fish seem to do what I want them to.