My fahaka is a very picky eater. She only eats live crayfish, crabs, and frozen whole shrimp. She seems to be very visual. I changed brands on blood worms and the different shape in the cubes made it so she will not eat blood worms anymore. She only eats the tais off the whole shrimps, but i cannot get her to eat just the tail without the heads. I would just keep experimenting, try each type of food more that once. My fish is more picky than my 2 year old son, when it come to eating
Feeding Fahaka
- Thread starter knightmare1968
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Mine's about 6" now and he's been on a diet of krill, ghost shrimp, earthworms, bloodworms, plankton, snails and red claw crabs. When I first got him at ~1.5" I had a rotation of krill bits 2x/week, plankton 2x/week, bloodworms 1x/week and earthworm chunks 1x/week - 1x day off from feeding/week. I would have to find the smallest krill, cut a tiny bit of earthworm, or only give him 1/3 of the block of plankton/bloodworms until he was big enough to have more at a time. His first live treats were small snails that the LFS let me pick out of their tanks. Eventually he moved up to ghost shrimp snacks and now he loves his red claw crabs.
Don't tell him now, but pretty soon he's being backed down a couple of feeding days/week (to every other day or so) and then eventually to every third day when he reaches the 12" mark. As with many predatory fish, as he grows he'll benefit from a few bigger feedings/week with a fasting day or two in between, rather than the typical "many small meals" regime that most of the non-predatory "grazers" get. But, judging from the gorgeous specimen in your avatar, you don't need to be reminded about that part.
Don't tell him now, but pretty soon he's being backed down a couple of feeding days/week (to every other day or so) and then eventually to every third day when he reaches the 12" mark. As with many predatory fish, as he grows he'll benefit from a few bigger feedings/week with a fasting day or two in between, rather than the typical "many small meals" regime that most of the non-predatory "grazers" get. But, judging from the gorgeous specimen in your avatar, you don't need to be reminded about that part.
labiatus55;2044670; said:
I get my mystery snails from aqua bid, and small snails from other hobbists that don't like them in their tanks.
Yeah, malaysian trumpet snails are waaaay tiny i dont understand why everything is too big for him
