Hepsetus odoe - A few questions

[ZackAttack]

Hy,

got 3 Hepsetus odoe last week. It seems to be 2 Males and 1 Female, but not for sure and one of the 2 bigger ones has a damaged jaw. But they look good and healthy. To the questions, they barely ate live fish, saw 1 of the three eating today. Frozen food or Dendrobena were ignored as of today.

Any tips, how i can get them on frozen food? Should i starve them? But for how long without problems?

Thanks in advance

 

[tlindsey]

Hy,

got 3 Hepsetus odoe last week. It seems to be 2 Males and 1 Female, but not for sure and one of the 2 bigger ones has a damaged jaw. But they look good and healthy. To the questions, they barely ate live fish, saw 1 of the three eating today. Frozen food or Dendrobena were ignored as of today.

Any tips, how i can get them on frozen food? Should i starve them? But for how long without problems?

Thanks in advance

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HarleyK
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[isde02]

Hy,

got 3 Hepsetus odoe last week. It seems to be 2 Males and 1 Female, but not for sure and one of the 2 bigger ones has a damaged jaw. But they look good and healthy. To the questions, they barely ate live fish, saw 1 of the three eating today. Frozen food or Dendrobena were ignored as of today.

Any tips, how i can get them on frozen food? Should i starve them? But for how long without problems?

Thanks in advance

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Hi, they do look healthy. How big are they? What frozen foods have you offered? Any tankmates in with them?

I would offer bloodworms, which I've found to be one of the easiest frozen foods to get fish to accept, and then move on to pellets. Most frozen foods don't really hold a lot of nutrition which is why I would try to get them onto pellets. Put a teacher fish in with them that accepts whatever food that you want them to eat and they will learn.

 

[moe214]

My odoe got on to freeze dried krill and shrimp within the matter of a week I'd say. Don't think they're very difficult, i would starve no longer than 3-4 weeks. Then I'd give in. Of course you should only start this once you know they're settled and feeding; imo anyway.

 

[ZackAttack]

The smallest one is about 10cm, the 2 bigger ones are 12-14cm.
I've tryed frozen shrimp, smelts, mussel and Bloodworms.

Tankmates are a big Synodontis eupterus, 3 Polypterus ornatipinnis and a Mastacembelus armatus.

 

[HarleyK]

Congrats on getting nice fish!

I'd need to see their dorsal fins to determine the sex.

Just starve them for a while. Then try frozen krill. That'll get them to eat. Once they take krill you can easily convert them to pellets! Easily!!