First Cold water fish

[Chipper]

I got my first cold water fish a week or so ago, i got 2 wild caught sun fish. i belive there pumpkinseed - L. gibbosus. there both now eating frozen mysis and night crawlers. does anyone have any special info on them?

 

[Gill Blue]

earthworms, as far as I know are good. mysis shrimp shouldn't make up more than 20% of the thiaminase bearing foods in their diet.
my sunnies do great on a varied diet of cichlid pellets (NLS, hikari), kelp pellets from omega one, mysis shrimp, freeze dried crickets, krill, daphnia, brine shrimp, and snails.
they only get krill, ms, or bs twice a week. crickets once or twice a week (I'll probably start buying live ones now that they're bigger), and the rest is pellets. snails are in the tank and have learned to hide during the day, so they don't get as many of them as they used to.

 

[juzbmez]

pellet train them if you want to feed pellets ..... panfishes will take pellets eventually. But personally I've always feed live or frozen food.

 

[Chipper]

yeah they will only eat earth worms and mysis right now im trying to get them on frozen krill now then ill go to freeze dried then pellets