MY RTC NEEDS FOOD!!!!!!!

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ruben7520

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:nilly:Ok! so ive been feeding my RTC (Davy Jones) jumbo shrimp for the past 4 months and we started when he was almost a foot long and feeding him only six per night. Now he is up to 10-12 jumbo shrimp per night and he will gobble three at a time sometimes four... Now he's not finding the shrimp too interesting.... HE ATE ONE OF MY JURAPARI'S at feeding time!!!!! And he's starting to play HIDE AND GO EAT with them. So far my two Wild Discus and the other Jurapari have proven to be elusive but its only a matter of time. My discus wont fit in his mouth as they are pretty big themselves.

He is about 1ft 1/2 long now and probably 5 to 6 inches tall...what should i feed him that will look tasty and not mess up his stomache. he has loved the shrimp but now its up to you guys to let me know what would be good......(impending doom song)
 
Mine like along with frozen shrimp,,scallops ,silversides and just resently discovered earthworms or nightcrawlers. Try catching some sun fish at a local lake fillet them and see if they will eat them. Also kens fish sinking 9.5 mm pellets are sucked up too. They will get bored of the same thing over a long time period, so try to find and have on hand three or four diff. items .
Really isn't much a rtc will not eat..
 
Also what do you have him in and have you planned the future?
 
I would remove all the other tank mates (that are small enough to be eaten, btw the discus soon will be!!!! very soon) unless it is going to go into vast aquarium replicating a section of its natural habitat so it will be far less inclined to eat its tank mates. It would be a shame to loose all those eartheaters and discus.

Feed it an assortment of things, all fish need variety see if he will take massivore and other pellets then feed him a mixture of the pellets and frozen foods like mussles and prawns, cockles, whitebate etc, although not too much of the whitebait it is very very oily fish and too much will foul your water.
GL with the catfish, they are an amazing beast!! PICS???
 
over 12" your rtc should only eat twice a week
 
but then you might wind up missing more fish. it will happen eventually but it will be better for your rtc to not eat daily.
 
rtc can eat more than twice a week at even a large size, but you have to reduce meal size. If you are keeping them in a small tank aka less than 1000gals you should definitely only be feeding about twice in a five day period. Do not overfeed as they will vomit in the water. Loss of appetite in RTC usually means that there is high ammonia, nitrites, or nitrates in your water. In a tank that size with a large feeding schedule you should be changing water pretty much everytime you feed that guy. Meaning once his belly is back down to it's normal non bloated size you change the water. Change the water while he's full and you risk making him vomit in your just cleaned tank requiring you to clean it again. Keep your nitrates in check. Try at the very least to keep them under 50ppm. Plan that pond as large as possible. I could have just went with a 1000 gal tank to save some space, but I realized that my fish would need as much room as possible, hence the 4000 I'm building.
 
Oh, and btw discuss fold relatively easily in a rtc's mouth. They are brutes and called tankbusters for a reason. Even if they can't eat them they think they can, and will try.
 
necrocanis;3079153; said:
Oh, and btw discuss fold relatively easily in a rtc's mouth. They are brutes and called tankbusters for a reason. Even if they can't eat them they think they can, and will try.
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