there eating 4-5 inch creek chubs. one day i threw some minnows in there and had one huge chub in the bucket and i seen him grab it and i thought no way can he eat that and sure enough he swallowed it down so now i give both my gars the biggest chubs i can get and give my peacock a smaller chub. arrow/royal/clown/goldknife/oscar/stingray, all get frozen foods. arrow will take chubs too once in awile.