Datnioides Undecimradiatus...

[Carg R]

After a couple of months of "starving" this guy it finally decided to follow it's smaller cousins and eat the floating-freeze-dried-shrimp.

I think it started when I began enticing it by holding the live-feeders (in bags) in front of the tank, and this guy went crazy! Then I'd dump some feeders and some shrimp in the tank.

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[davo]

Congrats. Interesting way to get them to start.

 

[benzjamin13]

Nice!

 

[eyft23]

cool video. i did the same thing with my dats. now they're just eating like pigs. they eat anything and everything.

 

[Tongue33]

HHHmm.. NIce!

 

[twk1]

Dat's nice! cool video!

 

[sudi817]

Nice

 

[wonword]

awesome dats!

 

[arkmann]

Did you really starve them for 2 months???

Great video by the way. Great audio too!

 

[Carg R]

Did you really starve them for 2 months???

Great video by the way. Great audio too!

The little ones (mircolepis) were already eating (blood worms, small shrimp etc) but I picked up the large one (undecimradiatus) was raised on only live feeders and according to the prior owner never touched anything else.

It may have eaten something when my back was turned but it only had access to live feeders 3-4 times from March to July...so I figure 2 months of starving is about right.