shy tropheus?

[freespool]

did you beat them as fry?

[BassTank]

Lol

[muuunkeeyy]

Let them go hungry for 3 day's. they will come out.

haha i might have to try this. i kinda feed them alot, possibly making them hungry will make them want to come and see me.

Man...you got me stumped !! Have you tried approaching your tank with only the room light on ? If they are not hiding with just the room light...then I would think that your fish don't like your tank light . Maybe your lighting is just to bright for your fish .

with the light off for some reason, they seem to be moving around more and not as crazy. i will upload a video in the next few minutes for you guys to see and that might help.

[muuunkeeyy]

heres the video

[bigheadanthony]

I think its b/c you dont have enough of them in the tank. I've noticed that if I have a big colony, they always are more aggressive and swim at the top of the tank.

[muuunkeeyy]

i have 19 of them in there..hiding somewhere in the 75. with 3 loaches and a petro.

[bigheadanthony]

i have 19 of them in there..hiding somewhere in the 75. with 3 loaches and a petro.

oh, never mind then. It didnt look like you had that many fish. Try starving them!

[muuunkeeyy]

haha yeah they managed to hide under the holey rock >.< wont come out to play LOL

[muuunkeeyy]

guys think it might be because of the light? does tropheus take some time to get used to light?

[daddy]

aren't this the same fish u where selling a couple of weeks ago they seemed really active on the video u posted

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[muuunkeeyy]

yeah i was trying to sell them. even before they wouldnt do much but swim on the bottom if anything. i kinda want my tropheus to like come at me and want to be fed. they js sit around and chill and come out once in awhile and then eat food slowly.. but now they hide for some reason as well. i dont know..

[muuunkeeyy]

with the light off they swim around and stuff but they arent like everyone else's fish ive seen. they only once in awhile come out with the light on and they never come up to you for feeding or anything.

[muuunkeeyy]

oh man checked this morning. i fed them only once yesterday and it seems they are more active today. with the light off, they dig in the sand looking for food and swim about. lol..i guess i WAS feeding too frequently and they got used to it. and i might have to leave the light on for awhile for them to get used to the light..because they still dont swim with it on.

[myjohnson]

Get a timer for your lights.

If they eating then they not sick.

I've seen (an kept) shy colonies before. Nothing wrong with it. Means they school tighter.

[muuunkeeyy]

Get a timer for your lights.

If they eating then they not sick.

I've seen (an kept) shy colonies before. Nothing wrong with it. Means they school tighter.

i actually have one laying around. what time frame is a good time to set for the light? i was using 8:00AM-11:00PM..but thats kinda excessive isnt it?