14cm Mono peacock bass not eating
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Great . You got them eating.
You might try feeding them night crawlers for about a week. Then dangle one from your fingers. If the Arow. eats it, dangle another one. . If they don't take it feed them the worms on the bottom for a few days. Then try to feed them from your fingers again.
You might try putting pellets or food sticks in the crawlers. Once you get them eating from your hand they should start to take other foods from your fingers, good luck.
You might try feeding them night crawlers for about a week. Then dangle one from your fingers. If the Arow. eats it, dangle another one. . If they don't take it feed them the worms on the bottom for a few days. Then try to feed them from your fingers again. You might try putting pellets or food sticks in the crawlers. Once you get them eating from your hand they should start to take other foods from your fingers, good luck.
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Great . You got them eating.
You might try putting pellets or food sticks in the crawlers. Once you get them eating from your hand they should start to take other foods from your fingers, good luck.
X2 well said guys
Thanks for the advice guys , it's quite funny to see them eat the earthworms , they will dangle around them , not striking at first , then will go for them one at a time , and gulf them down like spaghetti hehehe , they are very sceptical about the worms and seems scared when wolf them down hehe , very amusing to watch
Thank you , I have read it...
I wish I could carch mine , they are in my 375g and it's very hard to catch them...
On feeding the earthworms , they tend to slurp it up , but then loose them again as if they don't know what to with it? they tend to circle the worms at the bottom , then try to pick them up several times but doesn't seem to interested to do so...
my 1 still eats sticks very good , I am at the point of just leaving them because they don't want to eat anything else , will they eventually die if I even stop feeding worms and they don't get food to eat?
Yes they can starve them selfs to death. If it comes to it, I personally would force feed my bass.
"Converting Cichla off Live Food" Read this. It really works. " Don't let them starve". Try cutting the worms up. Then rinse them off. and let them take it from your hand. You can do it with feeders to.
"Converting Cichla off Live Food" Read this it really works Try cutting the worms up, then rinse them off in a small net to get the slime off of them.
