I enjoy feeding a variety of foods several times a day to my fish, which includes pellets, frozen, and live pods. Recently, I've gotten into feeding them with blackworms. The first few days, I was met with rejection, however the fish quickly turned around and gobble these up within several days of feeding.
Then, I noticed there was a slight change in behavior. My fish usually are peaceful and timid with each other prior to my feeding with blackworms. However, now they are flashing, displaying like peacocks, getting darker/lighter, and aggressively chasing each other. They would swim, freeze, flash/display their fins like peacocks, then do a quick chase. One even lost a patch of scales.
So, the question is, did the blackworms affect their behavior or was this just coincidental to me feeding them blackworms?
Thoughts anyone?
The fish are: 2 red tail tamarin, 2 blue spotted tamarin, 2 yellow tail tamarin, 1 black back tamarin, 1 yellow twistii tamarin, 1 melanurus tamarin, 2 bella goby, 3 harlequin filefish, 1 flame wrasse, 1 potter's leopard, 1 guinea fowl leopard, 1 ornamental leopard, & 1 radiant wrasse.
Then, I noticed there was a slight change in behavior. My fish usually are peaceful and timid with each other prior to my feeding with blackworms. However, now they are flashing, displaying like peacocks, getting darker/lighter, and aggressively chasing each other. They would swim, freeze, flash/display their fins like peacocks, then do a quick chase. One even lost a patch of scales.
So, the question is, did the blackworms affect their behavior or was this just coincidental to me feeding them blackworms?
Thoughts anyone?
The fish are: 2 red tail tamarin, 2 blue spotted tamarin, 2 yellow tail tamarin, 1 black back tamarin, 1 yellow twistii tamarin, 1 melanurus tamarin, 2 bella goby, 3 harlequin filefish, 1 flame wrasse, 1 potter's leopard, 1 guinea fowl leopard, 1 ornamental leopard, & 1 radiant wrasse.