i need some help about my kelberi

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bassinmike85

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as some of you know if u read my past posts, i recently got a kels from a MFK member..the kels was previously beat up when previous owner had him..previous owner said he had him in a tank with a bigger pbass and got beat up..but anyways i had him for a few days now..i tried feeding him shrimp like the previous owner i tried frozen krill everything but the kels is just not eating..but i have a holding tank next to the pbass tank,and the holding tank has massive amounts of bluegill and the kels attacks them threw the glass..but when i put anything in the tank he dont attack it..could the kels b scared bcuz of the big mono i got? they get along they dont fight/flare at eatchother..hes looking way better since i got him but hes just not eating..any idea's? if i cant get him to eat i'm going to pass him on to someone who can house him with simillier size pbass..any replies will help..
 
bassinmike85;4382617; said:
as some of you know if u read my past posts, i recently got a kels from a MFK member..the kels was previously beat up when previous owner had him..previous owner said he had him in a tank with a bigger pbass and got beat up..but anyways i had him for a few days now..i tried feeding him shrimp like the previous owner i tried frozen krill everything but the kels is just not eating..but i have a holding tank next to the pbass tank,and the holding tank has massive amounts of bluegill and the kels attacks them threw the glass..but when i put anything in the tank he dont attack it..could the kels b scared bcuz of the big mono i got? they get along they dont fight/flare at eatchother..hes looking way better since i got him but hes just not eating..any idea's? if i cant get him to eat i'm going to pass him on to someone who can house him with simillier size pbass..any replies will help..
From my experiance kelberi are alot more timad than other variety of pea's ..if he is a little beat up his confidence is definatly down you will have to get some smaller live for now .Kelberi are notoriously hard to breack from live good luck.
 
@hulon thx for ur input..my mono is broken in finally..i feed him pellets frozen krill shrimp etc..and 3 bluegill a week as a treat..the kelbri far as i know from the previous owner was on shrimp..once i move the bigger mono into the 180g i'll keep the kels by himself for a while until he starts eating again..hopefully that will work..
 
bassinmike85;4382664; said:
@hulon thx for ur input..my mono is broken in finally..i feed him pellets frozen krill shrimp etc..and 3 bluegill a week as a treat..the kelbri far as i know from the previous owner was on shrimp..once i move the bigger mono into the 180g i'll keep the kels by himself for a while until he starts eating again..hopefully that will work..
That will help sounds like his confidance is broke down right now i would definatly feed live for a while and fatten him up...
 
@hulon..thanks..i got a huge variety of diffrent sizes of bluegill..i'll try feeding him once the mono is in the 180g tank..
 
the kelberi finally ate..i killed a foldfish and stuffed it with a pellet and bam he ate it..after that i put frzen krill in the tank n bam he ate that..i'm glad n happy hes eating now..
 
bassinmike85;4383533; said:
the kelberi finally ate..i killed a foldfish and stuffed it with a pellet and bam he ate it..after that i put frzen krill in the tank n bam he ate that..i'm glad n happy hes eating now..
Great news,now did you just drop the food in or did you toss it in?....Tossing is what got my Kel to finally bite.
 
krichardson;4384910; said:
Great news,now did you just drop the food in or did you toss it in?....Tossing is what got my Kel to finally bite.


he was some wat close to the top n i just tossed it creating a small splash then bam he attacked it..i got him eating tiny live bluegills..i been feeding the bluegill hikari food sticks..
 
bassinmike85;4385233; said:
he was some wat close to the top n i just tossed it creating a small splash then bam he attacked it..i got him eating tiny live bluegills..i been feeding the bluegill hikari food sticks..
Try to keep him off of the bluegills.The other items that you just got him to eat are a step in the direction to training him off of live food....no small task with Kelberi.
 
krichardson;4385575; said:
Try to keep him off of the bluegills.The other items that you just got him to eat are a step in the direction to training him off of live food....no small task with Kelberi.

i was feeding him bluegills to fatten him up..hes going off of live food sarting tomorrow..
 
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