boring fish

[hurricane_redbone]

I have a juruense... it pretty much doesnt move... its startin to piss me off... it doesnt really eat... it used to eat a gold fish every couple nights... but no movement during the day and no dead food.
I dunno if i can be assed to feed live foods all the time...
would I be better off with a tigrinus? are they more active? do they eat dead food?

 

[StiffMeister]

Hi bro,

It used to eat dead fish in my tank, no problem. Strange how it doesnt eat in your tank as i was an eating machine in mine.
A tig is kinda the same, a friend had one. I did notice that fasciatums became more active when they passed the 40cm range. Maybe that will happen with the jur.

Does it swim when the lights are off?

 

[hurricane_redbone]

yea it cruises occasionally... some nights it will like turn around swim a circle n sit back in it place... very rarely itll go nuts tryin to eat all the snakeheads but realize they dont fit...

but no movement at all duing lights on...

 

[killerfish]

add a power head mabye they both like alot of current in there water

 

[fish tamer]

yea see what u sayin i have a sun catfish does the same that your cat does. but mine cat says in a cave. cant wait till it out grows it

 

[Bgonz]

Try keeping it in a tank by itself. I have a tank with a rtc, rtsxtsn,marble and a vulture cat and it sucks also, NO ACTION I just seperated a few of them and already they are much more active. In the past and present my favorite and most active fish are/were kept alone.



Just an idea......



bob

 

[hurricane_redbone]

Hmm thats an interesting theory... but i doubt itll work. cuz when i just got it there was nothing in my 310 gal except the catfish and a sturgeon... with a bunch of goldfish... even then he wudnt move...
there are already 2 powerheads in the tank and theres plenty of water flow...