Im having a problem getting my archers to eat, Im not sure what my lfs was feeding them but I've tried nls and crickets with no luck. Wondering what the issue could be or what you would recommend for food preferably not live its just kind of a pain having to go get live all the time.
Archers aren't eating
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How long have you had them? Sometime fish need sometime to adjust to their new settings. With archers you just need to make sure the food floats as they don't really look down for food.
Also, tank is brackish right?
Also, tank is brackish right?
give em time. They'll eat. It took my native months to eat anything regularly, but they were wild caught.
Can you call the store and find out what they were given?
Can you call the store and find out what they were given?
My experience was that archers were hard to keep for any extended period of time. i.e. they would go off their food, or never eat in the first place. For me anyway.
Try floating food. My archer loved floating krills and pellets
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i had a single archer once. he would pick up carnivour pellets from the ground by flipping on his side like a flounder
I always had luck using frozen krill/mysis off of tongs. They need to see the movement to want to hit it though. Good luck.