Feeding Black Ghost Knife

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bigdogfish

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Dec 30, 2010
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I just got a black ghost knife and bought some bloodworms to feed him.

When I tried to feed him last night the bloodworms just floated on the surface of the water and the other fish ate them.

How exactly am I supposed to feed this fish?
 
thaw the bloodworms by putting the cube in a net and running it under water. turn off your lights because they are almost completely nocturnal when young. try hand feeding a little of the bloodworms right in front of his "cave" and see if he will come out. If not just place it right in front of him. Overtime he will become more accustomed to you and should have no problem handfeeding.
 
I keep an empty water bottle to feed frozen foods like Blood Worms. I put a little tank water in the bottle and place a cube of the frozen food in it. After the cube is thawed I shake the bottle a bit to break up the cube, then I pour it into different areas of my tank so all fish have the opportunity to eat. For Nocturnal fish, do as Jsethcole suggested; add the food after the lights are out. My ghost Knife also liked live Ghost Shrimp. The shrimp liked to hide in all the dark and hard to get places to avoid the hungry fish. Unfortunately for the shrimp, my Ghost Knife also liked the same hiding places.
 
My ghost knife Has no Problems Coming out during the day to feed. He especially loves blood worms, but will take flake and pellet food no worries too. He is only 5-6 inches long atm. Don't stress too much, if he is hungry he will soon learn to come out

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Mine will ONLY come out at night. So I just defrost blood worms in a little bowl of cold (not warm) water and dump it in when I turn the lights out. Use cold water because warm water takes away nutrients in the fast dethawing. Good luck! :thumbsup:
 
Mine like brine shrimp and blood worms. Never seen him eat the ghost shrimp. I have low lights so he comes out a does a vacuum of the tank. I had taken tweezers and feed him that way in the beginning.
 
I recommend gettin your BGK on pellets ASAP. IME the growth rate and overall health is just so much better. Mine loved hikari carnivore, I wasn't even trying to get him on pellets and he just started eating them.
He went from 2" to 8" in less than six months.
 
See if hand feeding works, I guess suckers/pleco's etc are hard to feed sometimes as well, but I heard people using sinking pellets. But for Ghost Knifes try to put the food in front of him and see what he does.
 
Just be patient. It will smell the food when it's hungry enough and come out to eat on it's own. Knives are quite intelligent and learns quite quickly when it comes to food.
 
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