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Comanswoodwork

Comanswoodwork

Jack Dempsey
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I've got a 6-7 inch temensis that is the laziest eater I've ever seen. I want to train it on pellets but it takes so long to eat feeders I'm not sure how I'm gonna do it. I starved it for 2 weeks and it wouldn't touch the pellets the Kelsey were eating. I just put him in a tank alone to get it to eat. It's staying in there til it's on pellets. Any ideas?
 
Comanswoodwork said:
I've got a 6-7 inch temensis that is the laziest eater I've ever seen. I want to train it on pellets but it takes so long to eat feeders I'm not sure how I'm gonna do it. I starved it for 2 weeks and it wouldn't touch the pellets the Kelsey were eating. I just put him in a tank alone to get it to eat. It's staying in there til it's on pellets. Any ideas?
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i suggest u try converting it to bloodworms or fresh shrimp first as he is a hard nut to crack (these have a strong smell), thats pretty werid as temensis are known for their superb hungry. let us know how it goes
 
Comanswoodwork said:
I really don't know how it's alive.
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Most fish can live for months and months and months without eating. They live off of their fat reserve, and will be grossly emaciated before succumbing to starvation.

I think its not eating because be may be sick. Hex?
 
How do you diagnose that? It ate 5 guppies and 2 goldfish last night in the 10 gallon I put it in for now. Just doesn't attack food like the other Cichla I've got.
 
Comanswoodwork said:
How do you diagnose that? It ate 5 guppies and 2 goldfish last night in the 10 gallon I put it in for now. Just doesn't attack food like the other Cichla I've got.
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Wasn't diagnosing, just meandering a guess. It just sounded like it wasn't eating at all.

I think your best bet is to put it back in with the other fish and let the natural food competitiveness instinct takes over. If it's healthy, I wouldn't worry about it starving itself to death. It will eat when it gets hungry enough, and it will learn to eat pellets by watching the other fish doing it. This is how I had trained my 4 natives onto pellets.
 
A temensis will eat and eat and eat and once you think it is full it should eat some more. I would put him in with your other pbass and let nature take its course. I have had some peacocks that would not eat pellets after months of trying to break them onto them and then I threw them in with other pellet trained bass and next thing you know within a week they are eating them. They learn from the other bass.

A temensis is a bottomless pit when it comes to feeding them, I currently have three of them along with my other bass and trust me, they are eating me out of house and home! This is a pic of my one temensis chowing down on a 1 pound whole bluefish! The picture is also from close to a year ago so they have grown considerably since then! Largest one is easily 30" now.

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Put with other bass and if he does not eat, well, to bad for him. Agree let nature take its course of strongest survive!
 
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