I have a large Rafael I just rescued. He has been on regular Sinking pellets and loves Shrimp Pellets. Here is my issue his tankmates are Oscars and think anything that moves is food and is ment for them? So I am putting the pellets in just as I shut off the lights at night but I'm still affraid the oscars are getting 90% of it? Does anyone have any other ideas I could try? I don't want him to starve he is beautiful at this point and seems very healthy? (I'd say he's 8" or so, they are in a 125)
HELP need advise on feeding???
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Here's what I do I have cories and my cichlids eat most of the food too. When I feed I put floating pellets or flake in first then while they are distracted throw in the sinking pellets. Works for me
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Good plan above. I feed mine at night and he eats floating pellets off the top. He's the first one to them everytime and eats very aggressively till he looks like a golf ball.
depending on how many fish you have. my pacu,royal knife and arowana use to steal food from my gar. what i did was take my net and push other fish away from him.
my aro and big tsn seem to rush to the food faster than my other cats and piek can find it. so i spread pellets across the entire tank. While this may not be possible for you as i have a rather large footprint. another option like stated above is simply scare the oscars off. and an even better option, put the food somewhere the oscars cant get liek in a cave, used to do that when growing out a rtc with oscars over the top.
this is an ez one lol just spot feed take a piece of pvc or a gravel vac tub sink it into the water next to the cat and drop the food into the tube the other fish can not get to it and it falls out the bottem so the little guy can grab it. i prefer a piece of pvc because the other fish cant see the food going throu it and wont learn to just sit at the bottom lol
Good idea!!!! Will have to remember that one, but my raphael steals food from my other fish lol.
Just reach in and put it in front of his mouth! He'll get used to your hand fast when he realizes you have food! ha
Thanks everyone for your advise. So far he's mostly been hiding but has started swimming around allot more this morning. I've used my siphon tube first even though I'd love to get to the point I can hand feed him. How long would you say it takes for them to realy settle in? Also, I want to get a couple more cats, or maybe a alge eater? I would like something that is active during the day and is good for helping keep the tank clean again it needs to be something that the oscars won't mistake as lunch
. I like cory's but I just don't think any of them get large enough to be safe? The synos are neat but I find they rarely forage during the day. The pleco's are kewl but I think they add to the Bio load way more then they clean. I am just trying to think of a good forager, what would you folks say?
. I like cory's but I just don't think any of them get large enough to be safe? The synos are neat but I find they rarely forage during the day. The pleco's are kewl but I think they add to the Bio load way more then they clean. I am just trying to think of a good forager, what would you folks say?
Loaches or Boris's if u want something that will clean the bottom. I personally like blue botias because they get a red tail as the get bigger. Color contrast is just beautiful