Gulper Help??

[Moreh2o]

My gulper eats everything but the food I give him. Hes only about 8" but he has eaten 6" Sevrum, 6" snakehead (super mad about that), 2 bichir's, 6" sliveer aro and more. But if I hold shrimp or dead comets in front of him he wont eat. If I just drop food in still nothing. Should I just start buying him like 4-6" cheap fish to eat???? Help please

 

[rdx1555]

The gulper isn't eating prepared foods because it has been eating live foods aka the other fish you have in your tank. Gulpers are best kept in a gulper only tank as they'll eat anything that can fit in their mouths which includes fish double even triple the gulpers size. So not many big fish can survive in a tank with a gulper without being a threat to the gulper itself.

Once the gulper has exhausted its supply of live foods in your tank wave some market shrimp in front of it. Eventually it will take a bite but prolly spit it out but that's at least a step in the right direction. Keep offering it food like this and it will finally eat the shrimp. Sooner or later the gulper will bum rush your hand in anticipation of food. After hand feeding it for awhile you can drop the shrimp right as the gulper is coming up to grab it so it chases it down. Then you'll soon be able to just drop the shrimp in there and the gulper will find it and pick it up. This however doesnt work so well with more than one gulper unless you drop a ton of food in there cause if one gulper is too slow the other will prolly gorge itself silly.

 

[OscarRobinson]

Welcome to the world of gulpers. My guy has an apetite for sunfish. When I got him he ate only prepared foods (market shrip, tilapia, ect). I had the bright Idea of putting him in a 120 with about 8 different kinds of sunfish that were way too big for him to eat. After he ate the third one I decided to move him to a 55. He didin't eat for two months after that. Be persistant and eventually it will eat like the above post states.