Help Chiloscyllium Punctatum feeding
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Should I wait on an actual question or plow in with guessing what you need? Hmmm...
OK, I'm going to assume that you would would like to know what types of foods your shark would like. The bamboo I kept was hesitant to feed when I got him home. I was able to entice him to feed by offering small long slices of squid. Once he started searching out the squid (instead of waiting for me to wave it under his nose), I started offering him other foods like silversides, ghost shrimp, cut raw shrimp, bloodworms, scuds, crabmeat, and gut-loaded gambusia.
Should I wait on an actual question or plow in with guessing what you need? Hmmm...
OK, I'm going to assume that you would would like to know what types of foods your shark would like. The bamboo I kept was hesitant to feed when I got him home. I was able to entice him to feed by offering small long slices of squid. Once he started searching out the squid (instead of waiting for me to wave it under his nose), I started offering him other foods like silversides, ghost shrimp, cut raw shrimp, bloodworms, scuds, crabmeat, and gut-loaded gambusia.
It's not 'normal' but, it is common. Did you watch him feed at the store before buying it? Mine ate at the store then, wouldn't feed for the first couple of days I had him. The sad thing is that if it hasn't fed at the lfs the chances are slim you'll get it to feed before his system starts crashing.
Well have you been feeding from a stick? I feed my bamboos from a stick every feeding and I will do so for my shaks entire live's. If you just throw the food in there he/she is probably too shy to go look for it. You have to get some aquarium tongs and stick it under the sharks nose. You should start it off with squid as mentioned earlier or clams out of the shell. If nothing else works and he/she goes more than anouther week without eating then you will have to force feed it. To do so you will have to take the shark out of the water and stick a very small piece of food into it's mouth. This won't harm the shark as long as your gentel and use a piece of soft airline tubing to push it down into it's mouth. This species of shark can live for up to 12 hours out of water so don't worrie about that part either. It's better to be force fed and stressed out a bit than die of starvation. But don't worrie about that for at least anouther week since they can go for 6 to 8 weeks without food.