For Randell; Petrochromis Macrognathus "Zambia"

[geoff_tropheus]

last resort...

Medicated peas and nori force feed thru syringe

[Mzungu]

Sounds pretty harsh...

[madugo]

Some times one day, some times for a few days. If I see white poo and less activity I hit my fishes ASAP.

they eat pretty aggrassive as far as i can tell...nipping alege on the rocks too...
anyway i will do 5 days of metros and see how it goes...

[madugo]

I have metro in powder from. 5 grams treats 165g. I have 500g. Let me know if you need it. I will bring it to the apartment for you.

If you use the pill just put 8 in there.

i should have enough for only 5 days of ...and that is it...
if they do ok after 5 days...i guess i will be ok for a while...if not...i may have to get some from u man...
how much u paid for your 500g...where u got them from...
i guess i will need to buy some more and store it for the future...

[myjohnson]

Ken's got it the cheapest I seen. $36 for 500g but after shipping it's 40 something.

[madugo]

do they only sell 500g?
i dont think i can use that much...lol...

[myjohnson]

I'm sure some people on here will want to split that with you.

Cheapest way to go man.

[tbui1178]

Update?

[myjohnson]

Last day of treatment was yesterday.

Did a 50% WC today.

No signs of blout. No white poo.

Still got one or two not eating. I don't think it's blout for these two. I think they are just stupid.

Fish are being fed a number of different foods to get them to eat.

Petros love freeze dried kill I have to admit!

10 of the 12 are super aggressive at feeding time and follow me back and forth as I walk across the tank,

The last two are just hanging out. Hope they start to eat but if they don't I'll just charge it to the game.

[cichlid1409]

aggression?

[myjohnson]

Very low actually. No more then you see with tropheus.

I do believe aggression will pick up once the order of the colony is fully in place and breeding starts.

As of now, aggressive is very spread out.

[mgarrido]

Glad to hear that they are better, you are da man!

[myjohnson]

Thanks Miggy.

Even if I lose the last two not eating, I still think it was worth getting these.

[cichlid1409]

losing 1 or 2 is almost expected...it sounds to me like they have been rejected.... i would take them out and put them somewhere else if you have room.

[myjohnson]

They are not rejected I don't think.

They don't get picked on. They just don't eat anything.

Might just keep them in a egg crate cage and try to feed them some krill in there.

The other fishes are just too aggressively going after the food for them to even try and take it down.