Channa Micropeltes won't eat

[Miks786]

Hey guys I have a Channa Micropeltes that won't eat anything besides beef cubes...

I know that beef cubes is not good for them and has no nutrition for him so I have stopped feeding him that but he won't take shrimp,pellets,blood worms nothing..He starves for more then a week but won't even look at that food..

What do I do? Any suggestions?

 

[Gazham]

How big is he? He a should be able to go for 2 weeks without food if he's large. If he's still growing, Micropeltes are picivores. He is better off eating fish/prawns/mussels. If he really doesn't want to eat anything else, I would ween him off the beef using feeder fish, then try and get him onto sprats/smelt. I've never known a snakehead to turn down live food

 

[Madou]

How did he end up eating beef in the first place?
A fish that size can go months without eating without being at a danger, so even though it's hard starving your fish, do it.

If he won't take what you give him, take it out of the water and try again 2 days later.

The aforementioned suggestion works too, but has the negative aspect of removing a bad habit to give him a new one. Especially when you know how much a micro eats, that's a whole lot of live fish to quarantine...

I hope you listened to our advices, but I have to ask anyway: What is the tank size, and more importantly, what else is in the tank with him?

 

[Miks786]

Ok thanks guys...He is +- 20cm...He wasn't eating before so someone told me too try beef cubes which I did and he loved it but did some reading after that and found out its not good for him so I stopped....Im sure if I put feeders into the tank he will eat but didn't want too go that route..

He is in a 3.2 meter tank with silver arowana, jardini, RTC...Will take your advice and starve him now

 

[Madou]

Don't bother, we told you countless times to not put him with tankmates, let alone intimidating tankmates, but you keep switching tanks, switching your population, starving him will only kill him.

You put a fish that either kills or gets bullied to death in with two of the most notorious bullies and one of the most voracious fish in the world.

Until you put him in a tank alone, with plants and covers, he won't get any better, or at least won't get better in the long run.

If you want him happy, and more importantly alive, take the proper actions and give this true monster its own tank.

 

[Hendre]

Channa are illegal.



Oddball HarleyK JK47

 

[JK47]

Channa are illegal.

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Are you referencing legality in South Africa or the United States?

 

[Hendre]

Are you referencing legality in South Africa or the United States?

South African list, South African law, South African member.

 

[Madou]

Are you referencing legality in South Africa or the United States?

There is a sticky about the US.