Cambelli not eating?

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always4lora

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I've had a Campbelli (4-5 inch)for about 3-4 months now and i've not seen it eat yet, it seems to charge at food when it hits the water and then just follows it until it hits the bottom and then leaves it. I feed a mixture of sinking cichlid pellets, NLS pellets (the 10-11mm ones) , massivore and occasional carnivore. I feed prawns every month as a treat for the poly's in the tank but havent noticed it eat these either.

Am i ok in presuming that it is eating what i put in the tank as it's still alive? or should i be worrying?
 
It was fed on live shrimp and lance fish , cant get live shrimp here and lance fish is very expensive to use as partof the diet.
 
my ngt was a finicky bastard too. to get it on pellets i went from live bloodworms to live bloodworms mixed with market shrimp, to just shrimp, to pellets mixed with shrimp, to just pellets. i think its very difficult to get them off live to straight pellets but if u give them a transition from these foods it may work better.
have you tried other foods like tilapia, mussel, beefheart or smelt? just be careful if the stomach is badly sunken in because i would be worried then.
 
always4lora;4350178; said:
It was fed on live shrimp and lance fish , cant get live shrimp here and lance fish is very expensive to use as partof the diet.
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I used to buy lance fish from Ruto, £8 /kg but they stopped selling it!!!!!

Best to post a pic, so we can see if it's thin or not...
Do u ever feed at night when lights out?
Maybe soak the pellets in bloodworm or defrosted prawn juice : overnight in fridge. I've had 5 ngt at different times in the past.... All were Converted eventually.
 
Here's the Dat , still not seen it eay pellets, every month i treat the tank to earth worms and it eats them. i have now started to try breeding earth worms .




 
He's not looking waifer thin yet, just a little thin.
Atleast it's eating once a month.

I would recommend feeding worms as
Much as possible. Get some fat and energy reserve on it.
Then back to your usual pellet staple feeding.
OR Whitebait: u can buy in bulk, cheaper than lance fish , more readily available.

Longest one of my NGT went with not eating was 8 weeks before conversion. 4 weeks is usually breaking point, by week 6 they r usually converted to pellets. So once he has fattened up on worms, try up to 6 weeks just pellets.

Good luck.
 
mine was really picky when I got him but he always ate hikari carnivore sticks. Now he attacks raw market shrimp and has a fat belly everyday! maybe something about the prawn he doesn't like? have you tried shrimp?
 
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