I got a juvenile jack dempsey last saturday. He has been extremely shy (I'd only seen him once in the open, other than that he's hiding behind the java ferns) and has yet to eat. I put 3 skirt tetras with him on sunday to act as dither fish, but they didn't work. One of the skirts was a female, and was scattering eggs. The tetras were eating them, and occasionally the jack would grab some. That's the only reason I wasn't too overly worried about him not eating, but that was on sunday/monday.
Going on 7 days, and he's yet to eat. I tried frozen mysis shrimp, frozen blood worms, and NLS cichlid pellets. The NLS pellets literally rolled on top of his head, and landed in the sand. I was thinking of trying some hikari or omega one pellets, but I'd rather have all my fish on the same food.
In the last day or two he has seemed to come out several times, but still isn't eating and is nowhere near as active as my firemouth.
He's in a 20g long growout alone with 3 tetras, temp @ 79f, with an AC50, of which I used the media from one of my filters on my 29g. He did seem to suffer a small injury when he was being netted (the small white spot you can see on that picture taken when I got him) but has since gotten smaller and is nearly gone. I'm hoping he was just recovering from the injury and will start coming out and eating, but looking to see any of you dempsey owners's opinions.
Going on 7 days, and he's yet to eat. I tried frozen mysis shrimp, frozen blood worms, and NLS cichlid pellets. The NLS pellets literally rolled on top of his head, and landed in the sand. I was thinking of trying some hikari or omega one pellets, but I'd rather have all my fish on the same food.
In the last day or two he has seemed to come out several times, but still isn't eating and is nowhere near as active as my firemouth.
He's in a 20g long growout alone with 3 tetras, temp @ 79f, with an AC50, of which I used the media from one of my filters on my 29g. He did seem to suffer a small injury when he was being netted (the small white spot you can see on that picture taken when I got him) but has since gotten smaller and is nearly gone. I'm hoping he was just recovering from the injury and will start coming out and eating, but looking to see any of you dempsey owners's opinions.
