Is my channa bleheri abnormal??

[viking252200]

Well, as the headline says my bleheri is a bit of a puzzle to me..

I recently bought a bleheri, and while it eats bloodworms, hikari pellets and so on, with great appetite, it refuses to eat live food!
I gave it some feeders 3 days ago and they are still happily swimming around enjoying them selfs!..well, i though it might just wanted something different than fish, so today i tried with some live freshwater shrimps..same thing they are busy cleaning my tank

While it is no big deal, i can still give it dry food, i was just wondering if you have had similar experiences? i have had other snakeheads in the past and they ate pretty much anything that was put into the tank..

Hope you guys have some input..
thanks!

 

[deangelo]

i think its pretty cool, most people have a hard time teaching predatory fish to eat prepared food, consider yourself lucky...but if you really want to feed it live food, starve it for a while with the feeders in the tank, it'll eat it...

 

[ddyerfamily]

I have no idea but if it gets hungry enough it will hunt.IMO
I have a knife that will not eat when I am watching.
I have watched night after night, you would think after awhile
they just might.......maybe......nope...

 

[channa-pl]

if yours channa will be realy hungry they will eat them

 

[stotty]

if yours channa will be realy hungry they will eat them

Thats spot on we normaly do it the other way round to get them off live food i say stick with it

 

[danny]

your off to a good start,you got your bleheri off live food with out even trying.....i bow befor you master fish keeper

 

[DownUnder]

dude... consider uRself lucky... many pple wished they had fishes like uR's... LoL...

 

[viking252200]

Okay!, i have thrown in the towel!..it just wont eat the feeders
So, now it is back to bloodworms, hikari pellets and so on....
Thanks for the help guys!