Jack dempsey not eating anything but live worms

[Allin121]

My 5" jack dempsey cichlid is not eating anything but live worms he doesn't eat pellets, feeder fish or feeder shrimp pls help

 

[tlindsey]

My 5" jack dempsey cichlid is not eating anything but live worms he doesn't eat pellets, feeder fish or feeder shrimp pls help

Welcome to MFK ☺

You can wean JD off live and just offer pellets until it starts to eat them.

 

[tlindsey]

Welcome to MFK ☺

You can wean JD off live and just offer pellets until it starts to eat them.

Don't offer anything live again until it starts eating the pellets don't worry JD won't starve itself.

 

[Allin121]

Don't offer anything live again until it starts eating the pellets don't worry JD won't starve itself.

THanks wil do

 

[Rocksor]

At that size it could be 3 weeks of not eating before it starts to look skinny. Are there any other fish in with it? Generally with fish stuck on live food, I like to get them to eat frozen food first. Then later on, I soak the floating pellets in the frozen juice. Eventually I odn't have to soak the pellets anymore.

 

[Allin121]

There is 1 senegal bichir with him and 1 feeder danio

 

[me@193]

this is off topic but i had a 6' inch jack dempsey in a community fish tank and 1'5 inch mollies were getting throu the divider and he wasn't hurting them.

 

[Cichlids-r-beasts]

this is off topic but i had a 6' inch jack dempsey in a community fish tank and 1'5 inch mollies were getting throu the divider and he wasn't hurting them.

He maybe ignores them. My buttikoferi lives with a couple of guppies, Tetras and danios and doesn't bother them.