how to care for tiny sunfish

[Ieatyourfish]

I have 3 tiny longears less then half an inch. Question is what to feed how to care for etc.

 

[Owain4]

i would treat them like any other fish, you might wanna put a sponge over your intake on your hob or canister just incase. My fry love to eat frozen blood worms and they might also even take flake.

 

[dcorreia]

Are they big enough to eat brine shrimp? Thats what I fed my sunfish fry before they were big enough to eat worms, minnows, ect...

 

[Gill Blue]

crumbled pellets and live/frozen daphnia are what I used. my gills were that size when I got them. they won't stay that size for long.

 

[Ieatyourfish]

ive been shredding up dryed blood worms and putting tiny pieces of algae wafer, i have them in a 2.5 gallon with a bubbler (air stone) cause every other tank has something that will eat them, the largest attacks all food the others are so small i can't tell what their doing.... i'll post pics later

 

[Ieatyourfish]

some pics,

 

[Bridger]

I netted 5 1-2"ers over the weekend. Mine immediately took to eating crushed up flake foods and frozen bloodworms. The younger they are the easier it is to get them flake/pellet trained in my experience. It took a whole week to get my adults eating flakes and it will probably be another week before I can get them totally on to flake food.

 

[Ieatyourfish]

my 3 inchers are weird, one only will eat blood worms the other cichlid pellets, strange fish hopefully they'll get over them selves one day

 

[Gill Blue]

my longears will eat anything I toss in.
what kind of longears are they?

 

[Ieatyourfish]

bigger one is a LA and the others are missouri's