Silver Dollar Feeding Time

Feeding time!

5 Silver dollars (3 Red Hook, 2 regular) gnaw away at veggie disks.

You can hear the hard disks snapping as they bite them. The disks are very messy, filling the water with floaty bits.

Other fish: 6 Columbian Tetras, 2 Bleher's Rainbows (male/female), 3 catfish, 1 loach, and one reclusive baryancistrus.

55 Gallon tank.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• aquatic
• aquarium
• fish
• silver
• dollar
• silver dollar
• columbian tetra
• tetra
• Syndontis
• catfish
• tank
• feeding
• veggie disk
• bleher's rainbow
• algae
• pet
• red hook
• baryancistrus
• loach
• aquaria
• Metynnis
• Argenteus
• rubripinnis
• hypsauchen
• redhooked
• red hooked

[BDawgNGP]

Would 6 Buenos Aires tetras get along with a silver dollar?

[Suraky]

@BDawgNGP Yes, I actually have had 5 Buenos Aires tetras with with the same silver dollars seen in the video for about 4 months now. Well, almost the same silver dollars, one died and there are two new ones, 6 in total, and now in a 90 gallon tank.

[MHAKP]

@Suraky how big is this fish tank? I have a 80cm fish tank with 120litres, can live 3 bigs silver dollars there?.

[Suraky]

@MHAKP In this video they are in a 55 gallon tank, but for a couple years before I had a few (including 2 from this video) in a 35 gallon tank. The two older fish are now 7 years old. In August 2011 when I moved one didn't survive, I put them into a 90 gallon tank and added two new dollars of a different variety.

I think 120 litres is small, they need space, they can be very nervous, fast and jumpy, but they seem to be hardy fish, like mine they might do ok if you have a canister filter.

[matshroom]

r they columbian tetras in there too? :)

[Suraky]

@matshroom Yes

[nigelangel7388]

My Silver Dollars just love Tetra Variety Wafers! When they see me get the pack out from the cupboard under the tank they start racing around the tank. As the wafers go into the tank they get one each and spin it round, eating from the edge, until they get to the middle, and it's gone! Nice video BTW.

[harleyrrab]

Hi nice tank suraky

[Yourmom10947]

@kidsnapeb13

Alege or however u spell it wafers

U can get them at any fish shop

[kidsnapeb13]

umm..whats the name of the food they are eating? the silver dollars?

[MrDarekx12]

whats that catfish name?

[Otaku1811]

@Suraky Beautiful fish. You sure they don't eat java ferns? I have four 8 year old silver dollars and I had put java ferns in their tank and they ate them all in a day lol now I just keep plastic plants and feed them some lettuce and algae wafers among flakes and other treats.