1" dat question

she's a beginner, so I wouldn't recommend keeping a datnoid.

I best suggestion is to return it and get herself some easier-to-care-for fish like goldfish, guppies, etc.

but to answer your question, datnoids rarely accept dried food (i.e. pellets) so your friend must buy worms, shrimp, and other "meaty" food.

You can see the growth rate of 1" dats in this thread...rather slow.

http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=56839

I started feeding mine brine shrimp and blood worms, they have since moved up to frozen market shrimp.

i have 4 that i got at 1in. they initialy wouldn't eat anything but bloodworms, i eventually got them to take lakesmelt gutloaded with hikari sticks. very slow growers, i've had mine for almost 6months, still under 3in.

They aren't easy to feed stuff like pellets mine only wat bloodworm, mussle, prawn and freeze dried krill.

CrazyBoutFish;1168729; said:

U can feed all those to Baby Dats ? How bout Full Grown dats?

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Yup, you can feed pretty much any frozen foods to dats. If you can get them to eat pellet then that's great, but I wouldn't count on it...not at first anyway.

You can feed the same types of foods to adults as well. My bigger guys get market shrimp, krill, Hikari sticks, smelt, and various fillets. Some of them will eat right away, but I still have a few that like to see the food look alive, so I just use a feeding stick with them.

I saw one of my indos eating a doromin stick this morning.