Help: Leopard Bush Fish

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daleteekz

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What do you feed yours?
I have had one for 6+ months now. I have mainly been feeding on sinking carnivore pellets. which he normally eats lots of. Recently i moved around the tank a bit and also have taken out 3 gold severums(roughly same size as him), a ghost knife, 2 tandanus, 3 pictus and 2 mystus catfish.
Mainly since ive taken out the 3 sevs, I dont see him feeding anymore. He doesnt even go for the carnivore pellets at the moment.

Should I be worried and should I try some live feeders, such as mollies, guppies or tetras?
 
Yep, one of those guys. I didnt get to see it, but my roommate told me he ate today. So thats a good sign.

Is there a risk using neon tetras as feeders? I would have assumed they wouldn't have disease as they are being sold as normal aquarium fish?
 
daleteekz said:
Yep, one of those guys. I didnt get to see it, but my roommate told me he ate today. So thats a good sign.

Is there a risk using neon tetras as feeders? I would have assumed they wouldn't have disease as they are being sold as normal aquarium fish?
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Oh man you're pretty lucky to get it to eat pellets mine won't have anything to do with them. Mine mainly eats frozen bloodworms. But I will also feed him chopped night crawlers, ghost shrimp, an feeders fish. If the neons are the main source food you're feeding them I'd keep them quarantined for a while before you use them.
How big is your? Those carnivore pellets must have made him grow pretty fast. Mine seemed to be stuck at about 4" for about 4 months.


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Its hard to get a clear measurement of him. I would say between 12-15cm. He looks to be just under an inch wide.
I guess crisis averted. He is back eating carnivore pellets and frozen krill.

I am not sure how old he is. He was a trade in at my LFS. A customer took him back because he was eating all of the neon tetras. His loss, my gain.
 
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