Feeding issue:help!

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
I feel like Im on crazy pills watching them hover around the food hungrily for 15 minutes and not touch anything! :nilly:


I just want to drop a candy bar in there and yell FEAST!
 
It's not easy, but you should just miss the next feeding time. They will eat when they are hungry. Wait one cycle and then drop a little food in the next time. My guess is they will go for it, if you have found the blood worms.
 
The omega one super color flakes are the most readily accepted food I have found. Mine eat the flakes faster than the tetra color flakes, live blackworms, live bloodworms, beefheart mixture, frozen bloodworms (any type), or NLS discus pellets.
 
I don't see why that would hurt, as long as you don't leave them off long. I'd be scared to do that. I might end up taking a nap and forget to turn them back on. It's tough getting old.
 
thanks for the suggestion of hikari frozen bloodworms, they gobbled some down. So relieved, maybe they will make it after all.

I am going to order a couple more. Ive got a 10 Gal to isolate them in, but that hasnt been set up long, has alot of old gravel in it, The shipment will come in tommarow, dont want to risk any fish in it till I can clean it and get it stablized.

Thanks again for all the input.
 
Now that you got them started eating you better be ready. They are going to be hungry for a while.:D
 
cakemountain;1224076;1224076 said:
if I try and feed them flakes can I turn the filtration off so the flakes dont go everywhere?
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My tank has ~12.5x turnover per hour, and I don't bother with turning off current while feeding.
 
You have that kind of turn over in a Discus tank??? How do you keep the current down.
 
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