Our banded cat shark is a couple months old now. We previously had another one. Both were gotten as eggs, the most recent shark was much more immature when purchased. The previous shark ate within 3 days and aggressively ate frozen mysis shrimp, krill, scallops - whatever we threw him almost. A job transfer required us to move 16 hours away and we were forced to sell the shark. After getting our tanks set up again we bought another egg and like I said, the shark hatched a couple months ago. It took him almost two weeks to eat and will only eat freshly killed/semi-alive ghost shrimp. He also doesn't aggressively seek them out - you pretty much have to put the first one right under his face and after that they need to be relatively close but he will find them and eat them.
We've tried so many things to get him to eat frozen. We've not fed him for a little and then tried frozen PE mysis, we even bought new mysis thinking the other might have been freezer burned or something. We've tried small pieces of krill too. He backs away from it like its rotten or an assault to his senses. We've tried alternating ghost shrimp with mysis. With garlic, without garlic. Nothing. Within two weeks the previous shark was flying around the tank snatching up any food we put in there. This one needs so much more attention and i'm worried.
I don't mind if we have to serve him ghost shrimp (though it does get expensive when he eats $2+ a night) but we're going away for our honeymoon at the end of February. During the TWO weeks we're gone, our neighbors will be feeding and checking the tanks and asking them to hand feed our shark is just too much of a burden. I'm really starting to worry that we won't have a shark when we get home. I'm willing to do ANYTHING to get him aggressively eating frozen. Any ideas???
We've tried so many things to get him to eat frozen. We've not fed him for a little and then tried frozen PE mysis, we even bought new mysis thinking the other might have been freezer burned or something. We've tried small pieces of krill too. He backs away from it like its rotten or an assault to his senses. We've tried alternating ghost shrimp with mysis. With garlic, without garlic. Nothing. Within two weeks the previous shark was flying around the tank snatching up any food we put in there. This one needs so much more attention and i'm worried.
I don't mind if we have to serve him ghost shrimp (though it does get expensive when he eats $2+ a night) but we're going away for our honeymoon at the end of February. During the TWO weeks we're gone, our neighbors will be feeding and checking the tanks and asking them to hand feed our shark is just too much of a burden. I'm really starting to worry that we won't have a shark when we get home. I'm willing to do ANYTHING to get him aggressively eating frozen. Any ideas???
