Ctenopoma acutirostre feeding problem

I have a 1.5" African Climbing Perch in my planted 33 community. I've read that they won't accept flakes and pellets and I've read that they won't.

Mine won't.

He's a spitter. I give all my fish in all my tanks frozen blood worms and brine shrimp daily. But he's not yet big enough or aggressive enough to compete with the danios, female bettas, and glow light tetras for the frozen foods. He gets some, but not enough. I've been holding the frozen food in my hand in the water and he's been eating out of my hand. Which is ****ing awesome. But i can't keep it up.


I picked up some brineshrimp eggs and I'm hatching them now. Moving him is not an option right now. But I intend on setting up a 40 gallon african tank for him and some congo tetras/butterfly fish once he gets a few inches under his belt. Can anybody offer advice? Also, how long do live brineshrimp live in freshwater?

I've been hand feeding since I made this making sure he gets loaded on bloodworms. His personality has really come out and he's no longer being bullied by the smaller fish during feeding time. He's accepting hikari microwafers and he's topfed on Microwafers a couple of times.

I supplement my Angels with Chiclid Bio Gold mini pellets and I have a particular female betta who LOVES them. They're way too big for her to eat but she grabs one and swims around with it and manages to bite pieces off of it until she gets bored and lets go our finally gets the whole thing down.

This morning my Ctenopoma robbed her of her big floating pellet and swallowed it down whole.


I have no doubt he'll be hitting sinking carnivore by the end of the summer. And yes... In his own tank.