Leopard Ctenopoma refuses to eat pellets anymore...

[L3CTR0N]

A few months back, my leopard ctenopoma had gotten ich. I separated him and treated for it. However, since he had recovered, he has lost the appetite for pellets. Before that, he ate pellets as if he had a bottomless pit for a stomach. He now only eats bloodworm. Any advice to get him on pellets again?

 

[kno4te]

Soak the pellets in the bloodworm liquid. Hope it works. Otherwise give it a break of a few days in between feeding.

 

[krichardson]

^Yep,try the bloodworm soak or let it fast for a week or so to let it build up a hunger.

 

[L3CTR0N]

All right then. Thank you guys so much!

 

[krichardson]

All right then. Thank you guys so much!

Glad to be able to help, do you have any photos of the cteno?

 

[L3CTR0N]

Yep. Here you go.

 

[krichardson]

You've got two of them,looks like nice sizes too!

 

[L3CTR0N]

Yep. There is a third one too. A small bugger, about 2 inches long.

 

[krichardson]

Yep. There is a third one too. A small bugger, about 2 inches long.

A few shops around here have some two inchers. I wouldn't mind one but that is just too small for me to work with.

 

[Deadliestviper7]

Throw in live foods like crickets, ghost shrimp, triops etc, when fish are recovering from illness they don't always want prepared foods, he should get back on pellets after a while