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Tetra. I feed TetraMin, Tetra Colour food, TetraPro (those silly "crisps for fish" -sigh - but they're good food!) and Tetra Prima granules. And freeze dried tubifex. Interspersed with live food banquets.

Yes, I've been a Tetra user since I was about 12 years old

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Don't know MkCube, but my fish love it whatever's in it ... my Lemons and Pencil Fish are usually barging each other aside for the best morsels when it hits the water

The Pandas like it too when it reaches the bottom. They especially like sucking it off the Cabomba for some reason

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

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Here's my pic, along with some notes taken from posts on the forum (with the author's permission!!) here. (sorry, it's an extream close-up)

http://www.fishindex.0catch.com/lemontetra.html

I feed my tetras TetraFin flake food and Freeze-dried bloodworms. (from Hikari, I think....)




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Yep I guess he is but he also has a very blue tail. It seems the O.S.I vivid color flakes really brings out the blue hues since both my lemon tetras and my gouramies have achieved the most color in that area.

Blue? My alpha male's tail is almost black!

When you say blue, is it a sort of deep gunmetal shade? Only one of my other males seems to be developing this sort of tail hue.

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

More of a sky-blue tail but alas my tetras seem to only display their colors when their excited so the blue tail is usually drab unless it's feeding time or water change time.

On another note my lemon tetras hardly ever school anymore and most of the time hide in the plants. Well I guess "hide" isn't the right word here, because they are not doing this because they're scared. Some usually 3 or 4 chase each other around the tank while the others merge into the brush. Is this another sign of breeding behavior or something completely different?

It's a mix. Males being macho with each other in between trying to seduce the ladies.

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

Probably your Alpha Male MkCube.

Check the following:

[1] Anal fin black band is really thick - a third of the depth of the anal fin as a whole;#

[2] Dorsal fin contains a large black tip;

[3] Adipose fin and pelvics also contain black;

[4] Body is darker than other Lemons.

This fits my Alpha Male, and he can be rather boisterous

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

WOW! Speaking of Tetra, how exactly is TetraPRO superior nutrition? The only difference I see in the ingredients is the addition of L-Carnitine,whatever that does.

the only flake food i feed is tetramin.

What brand flake food do you use?

Only freeze dried live foods.

VERY NICE! Do you feed live foods, Nitro?

Fianlly found some decent camera settings.

The best pic so far but the pic is still abit dark.

http://community.webshots.com/photo/127056383/154469066kBoLTb

What do you think??

LOL, I didn't mean your LFS, Cali. Just LFSs in general.But anyways I checked my local LFS also and they did not carry any either so I am going to have to settle for frozen daphnia and other foods. Will frozen work just as well? As long as the diet is varied?

My local LFS gets a regular supply. Daphnia, Brine Shrimp & Bloodworm. But then I'm about 5,000 miles away form you MkCube, so my LFS isn't a practical solution for you

Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002

I've asked at a few of the pet stores but none of them sell live fish food! Would I have better luck at the LFS?

Calilasseia, where do you buy your live food?

In answer to the question posed much earlier, my feeding rgime for my assorted solid coloured Lemon Tetras is:

[1] Regular live food - Daphnia, Bloodworm, Brine Shrimp, in large batches of all three mixed together for variety;

[2] Mixed flakes - TetraMin, Tetra Pro, Tetra's colour food and those granules that Tetra make (yes, I'm a Tetra food man and completely unashamed of it);

[3] Intermittent freeze dried tubifex;

[4] My Lemons also like to take occasional nibbles at the algae wafers I drop in for the Otocinclus.

Oh, Tetra colour food combined with live food works wonders. Turns insipid juveniles from the store into brassy solid coloured yellow fish in about six weeks. Try it!


Panda Catfish fan and keeper/breeder since Christmas 2002