African tiger fish stunted growth issue

[ekkhoo]

I've been trying to pellet train them on hikari food stick with 2 tin foil barb, and now its been 3 weeks! They are not eating any yet!

The 2 barb normally shoal together, 2 gatf will normally together and my 1 vatf sometimes with gatf sometimes with barb sometimes alone.

Im really worry about stunted growth and affect their life span...

Now im trying New Life Spectrum fish food which smell nicer to me.. but result still the same.

Went back to my lfs and saw the same batch of tiger fish as mine have grown so much, this really worry me alot.


Thanks for all your time in advance!!

 

[Chicxulub]

You're fine. You're well within the range of the normal starvation period. They're only now getting to the point that they'll consider pellets.

You're still months away from permanent damage via stunting. If they start looking too thin, throw some earthworms in and let them eat their fill then starve again.

Fwiw, some never break. You'll need to make that call.

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[Chicxulub]

Also, I advised you against mixing ATF. I'd wager they're fighting and stressing each other. You'd probably do well to add a few more dithers.

What size is their tank? How much current?

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[sashimimaster]

What temperature are you keeping them at? Higher temp with strong current will help to break them.

I wouldn't be comfortable with more than one GATF. I just don't think they do well with their own variety.

 

[ekkhoo]

Thanks for all the contribution !! Finally at weeks 5 my vittatus start to eat hahaha.

One thing that I noted was, after my vittatus eat, he get a little aggressive chasing after other 2 goliath but not the barb and gold fish @@.

Yea, at warmer temperature they seems to be more active xD.

Current is definitely enough as I can feel the force from one end to the other. Ofc there are some place for slack. Favourite spot for my atfs at night is somewhere near the wavemaker. During the day, they were all around the aquarium.

Tank size 7x2x2 feet. I know it's too small, will get a significant larger tank at the end of this year~