Cant get Juru to eat?!

[jayclarke]

Hi, I bought a 5" Juruense on friday.
It had a fat belly so must have been feeding fine.
Its not eaten in 4-5 days now and is looking a bit thin.
Ive tried it with frozen bloodworm, prawns, muscles, earthworms, white bait and massivore. Its just not interested.

It looks healthy and water parameters are fine. Any ideas??? dont want to lose him!

 

[cc247]

find out what it was on before you got it and try that... otherwise the 3 tigs i have gotten all took around a week to get settled in and start eating... may just need some time to settle in... goodluck

 

[jayclarke]

find out what it was on before you got it and try that... otherwise the 3 tigs i have gotten all took around a week to get settled in and start eating... may just need some time to settle in... goodluck

Thanks ill give them a call, hope he settles in soon. Seems good apart from not eating

 

[catsish33]

Im in the same boat as you, I got a 5 1/2'' Juruenese catfish about a month ago and put it in my 85gl. It didn't eat right away took a few days,
I feed it guppies and earthworms, but he seems to be blind or somthing the guppies would be gone in the morning and the earth worms would have to land right next to him or he wont eat it. he doesent seem to
ever smell the food or search for it. but he ate my 2 1'' peacock bass in the night woke up and looked in the tank and my bass were gone and my Juruenese looked prego. Soo 4 days ago i put him in my 240gl and has not eaten since. I offered all kinds of food nothing yet!! and acting weird, he is just swimming in place vertical along the back side of the tank. any advice ?

 

[catsish33]

bump!!

 

[pbass510]

Catfish seem to do that for some reason they take a while sometimes to adjust and eat that if its more then 2 weeks you might be worried

 

[taksan]

Live food at first

 

[Industrial]

Chances are it will only eat feeders for a while. Juruense cats are naturally piscavores, along with most other pimelodes. IME, Juruense cats are much harder to wean onto other foods than tigrinus, RTC or TSN cats, but it can be done. Fish that are specialized piscavores usually need to be fed what they will eat and then if you want them to take other foods, you just have to slowly work your way down to what you want to feed them. For example, if it has only been eating feeders, feeding it krill or frozen fish will be much more successful than pellets. A lot of times, as these kinds of fish get bigger they will only try to eat large foods too. Spending a few minutes picking bloodworms out of the water column is a waste of time for the fish when it would normally eat a fish large enough to last it a couple of days.

 

[jayclarke]

Chances are it will only eat feeders for a while. Juruense cats are naturally piscavores, along with most other pimelodes. IME, Juruense cats are much harder to wean onto other foods than tigrinus, RTC or TSN cats, but it can be done. Fish that are specialized piscavores usually need to be fed what they will eat and then if you want them to take other foods, you just have to slowly work your way down to what you want to feed them. For example, if it has only been eating feeders, feeding it krill or frozen fish will be much more successful than pellets. A lot of times, as these kinds of fish get bigger they will only try to eat large foods too. Spending a few minutes picking bloodworms out of the water column is a waste of time for the fish when it would normally eat a fish large enough to last it a couple of days.

thanks for the info

Im in the same boat as you, I got a 5 1/2'' Juruenese catfish about a month ago and put it in my 85gl. It didn't eat right away took a few days,
I feed it guppies and earthworms, but he seems to be blind or somthing the guppies would be gone in the morning and the earth worms would have to land right next to him or he wont eat it. he doesent seem to
ever smell the food or search for it. but he ate my 2 1'' peacock bass in the night woke up and looked in the tank and my bass were gone and my Juruenese looked prego. Soo 4 days ago i put him in my 240gl and has not eaten since. I offered all kinds of food nothing yet!! and acting weird, he is just swimming in place vertical along the back side of the tank. any advice ?

Mine swam like that for a day or 2 then I done a water change an he sits on the bottom now.

Just called the shop were I bought him, they said they've been feeding on earthworms Ive tried mine already hes just not intersested

 

[catsish33]

well 5th day in 240gl still swimming vertical and not eating, even at night he is still in the same spot . Should i move him back in the 85gl where he was eating ? or will the change make him not eat for another 5 days or so ? need some advice please!!