This sounds pretty reasonable. How much should I be feeding my tank of pellets? I'm still not adjusted to how much I should be feeding them. I've got 2 blood parrots a arowana 2 pbass a pleco and the jd being the biggest at 6-7 inches.
Jack dempsey not eating
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Feed the other fish pellets that they will eat. This will train the JD to eat the same pellets.
It depends on the size of a fish. For the 6-7" JD, a total feeding roughly the size of a dime (or smaller) once a day will suffice.
Yes, that is the feeding just for the JD...once he starts to eat the pellets. If the belly of all your other fish are visibly rounded (blood parrots will be more difficult to tell), then it's time to stop feeding for the day.
wonder where I have heard that statement (hungry fish is a happy fish) before. but that aside, large cichlids can go an easy 2 to 3 weeks with out feeding if they not imprinted to the food. Very rarely does it take that long. 5 to 8 days the norm. JD are shy fish to begin with, keep the same routine when you feed, do not fuss at the tank, drop the pellets in, and walk away. if not eaten in 10 to 20 minutes pull them and be done with it till next feeding time.
As a whole we as fish keepers over feed big time. fish do not need to eat as much as we plow them with. they not snapping the water when you feed, they over fed. use that info next time you feed and feed no more.
A hungry fish a happy healthy fish.
A hungry fish a happy healthy fish.
Jd still isn't eating. Only thing I put in the tank are pellets. I use sinking and floating pellets...... Any ideas?
