Ageneiosus vittatus

[MoNsTeR FiS]

Got 5 of these back in early Sept. Very active cats, spending most of the time swimming mid water. Although recently they have spent more time resting on the bottom of the tank. I think they took awhile to settle in to their new environment.

My question is, has anyone gotten them to eat pellets or something other than live or frozen foods? The only thing I have gotten these to eat is frozen blood worms & minnows.

 

[suckerfish]

I had a group of tiny blue ageniosus and I would mix in tiny pellets with black worms. Eventually no more live or frozen. GL

 

[kno4te]

Very cool striped duck bill catfish. Had some a while ago and was able to take some cut up tilapia. Had to mix with bloodworms as mentioned and starve a bit. It worked.

 

[thebiggerthebetter]

I concur.

I once put one of these fish with great many other fish (but it was an A. marmoratus) in 1500 gal pond, which I fed with 15-20 different kinds of foods - pellet, frozen, freeze-dried, etc. Just an enormous diversity of foods. None live though. I thought surely it is picking out something out of all this bounty. Nope. It rather died than to find something to eat out of all this.

My conclusion - just like guys above say - they need special effort and coercion.

 

[MoNsTeR FiS]

Thanks for the comments. I started mixing a small amount of pellets in with the blood worms last night. we will see how it goes.

 

[CLauf]

Echoing what was said earlier, I've had good luck getting mine to take tilapia, in addition to whitefish, and catfish from a feeding stick very easily, and after 6 months without starvation it has begun to take chunks from the water column. Mine has refused pellets and worms, and interestingly enough has turned up its (bottle)nose at all incertebrates I've tried including shrimp and clam.

 

[amazonfishman]

Never tried to convert mine to pellets but had good luck feeding frozen bloodworms and frozen shrimp with Ageneiosus Marmoratus 8-9", Ageneiosus Magoi 6", and Ageneiosus Vittatus 2" FWIW.