Feeding Festivums

[aquariageek]

What do you feed your Festivums?


I cant get them to eat Cichild Granules, and they dont go after the blood worms. I realize that they are a shy fish and I may be scaring them when I go to feed them.

 

[Honda12]

Try some flake food, maybe they will take to that. But unless they are sick they should eat when they are hungry whether it takes a week or two.

 

[phillausten]

The Mesonauta appear to like highish temperatures. I have some wildcaught insignis that really get on well with 85+ and eat anything

 

[dovii88]

try live bloodworms and blackworms or just any frozen food in general with some type of garlic additive to have them drawn to it...

 

[Nandus]

"Just say to yourself in your head dovii's only have two predators, man, and caimans..... and that is why they are the greatest.... and remember that when you buy any other fish they just get owned"

You forgot to mention Bull Sharks.

 

[recycling goddess]

lots of time we 'think' the fish aren't eating when, in fact, they are.

i just added some new fish to a tank and they didn't seem interested in food... too stressed out after the move... so i waited two days to feed them... they ate today! (as i sat in the dark in the corner watching for them to get brave enough to come out and get some food LOL)

 

[SphericalCube]

I know this sounds like total BS, but I feed ALL my fish Wardley's Tropical Flakes from the big blue cans they sell at wal mart. . . I've tried dozens of food types and they just like the Wardley's best. . . Topfin and Tetramin are alright too. . . for some reason flakes appeal to cichlids. JMHO

 

[VOYTEK]

just found this ... festivums love vegetables = ) any flakes that have spirulina -they will ove that too ... now the tricky part is that you CAN NOT feed YOUNG festivums with relatively BIG food ... I believe it's them being not capable to digesting it - they will simply DIE if you give them food that's too big. Once again that's talking about YOUNG FISH of that specie.

Take care,