My First Hydrolicus

[always4lora]

Hi' All,

I picked up this little beauty today at Pier Aquatics, it's only a few inch#s long. I've put it in my 4x2x2 with some larger tank mates. I only got it home a few hours ago so it's spent most of it's time near the fx5 output out the way, unfortuantly makes it a bugger to get a picture of as i dont have a zoom lense

Anyone care to give an ID and any decent advise to getting them eating at this size? I've got live earthworms , frozen bloodworm and pellets. I have just brought a bunch of platy's and put them in a seperate tank so get some feeder fish for it.

 

[tigeroscar1996]

I dont know much about payara but it looks like an armatus to me. If so then nice pickup.

 

[jelly]

How small is it. Looks like a scomb to me. has it a black spot behind the gill or a vertical patch?

 

[always4lora]

How small is it. Looks like a scomb to me. has it a black spot behind the gill or a vertical patch?

Hi'

It's got a little black spot on back of both the gills, its about 3 inches

 

[channarox]

That's a Scomberoides.

 

[always4lora]

Any feeding tips at such a small size?

 

[channarox]

Yes, feeders.

 

[Otherone]

If it's a Scomb he'll probably never eat anything other than live fish. The Scomb will have a circular spot behind the gill plate and the small top fin just before the tail will be clear with a black dot. Good news is he'll never outgrow the tank.

 

[jelly]

I did get mine eating non live. Eating chunks of fish. It helps having other fish to learn from.

 

[always4lora]

i did have a platy in the tank but it didnt get eaten, the platy if quite big compared to the fish, say about 40-50 % of the size. Will keep trying iwth worms and things as their's a strong current in the tank so they should keep moving about. Eat or die i guess!