New dats not eating

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mscamp02

mscamp02

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I recently purchased two silver dats from Jeff and I havent been able to get them to eat. One is 6" and one is 8" and I have tried market shrimp, night crawlers and frozen blood worms but nothing is taking. The water params are great at 7.1 PH 0 everything but 10ppm NO3.

Details on tank: 125g with 2 fx5's and 1 cfs 500

So the tank has a lot of flow and I was wondering if this is bothering them because they do hide away 99% of the time behind the rock/driftwood at the bottom of the tank. I tried putting the directional nozzles directly towards the glass to reduce flow but that didnt help.
 
Still need help. I've added salt to the tank and cranked up the heat to about 82-84 to try and stimulate them but still nothing. I've also tried silver sides but those didnt do anything.

Should I just try live?
 
Yes, try live. Don't be alarmed if they still don't eat. Could take a week or two to let them adjust.
 
When I got my NTT he was less then 3 inches. Only ate live food for first 3+ months. Tried starving on to pellets or bloodworm for 4 weeks at a time. No luck. He took to freeze dried shrimp in two seconds. My only guess is the strong smell and they are a full shrimp. So more resembled live food.

Good luck. Know how frustrating can be.


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Thanks, so you went four weeks at a time without them eating? that makes me feel a little better about them not eating for 1 week. I will try to get them on live for a while just to make sure they will take something before trying to switch.
 
Yeah fatten them up on live for a few days. Then I fed the tank nothing but pellets, and they never ate anything for 4 weeks, so fattened them up on live for a couple of days. Repeat and repeat. I have read about people on here going longer with the eat or die method, but in Australia small dats are over $700 each and nearly impossible to come across so I was not risking it too much.
 
I would email Jeff & ask what he was feeding and what temperature he had them in etc. He's very responsive to questions.
 
Yeah i just finished starving my 6" datnoid 2 days ago. It took the entire month of january and now since then he LOVES massivores and also enjoys frozen worms. Im now trying that on my tiny baby datnoid about 1 cm in length including tail. I do know that he can stand starvation for 3 weeks and still have a belly so it shouldnt be too hard.

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mscamp02 said:
I recently purchased two silver dats from Jeff and I havent been able to get them to eat. One is 6" and one is 8" and I have tried market shrimp, night crawlers and frozen blood worms but nothing is taking. The water params are great at 7.1 PH 0 everything but 10ppm NO3.

Details on tank: 125g with 2 fx5's and 1 cfs 500

So the tank has a lot of flow and I was wondering if this is bothering them because they do hide away 99% of the time behind the rock/driftwood at the bottom of the tank. I tried putting the directional nozzles directly towards the glass to reduce flow but that didnt help.
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You say the water parameters are great but unless you have a brackish water setup then it's not great for silver tigers
Silver tigers are a brackish water fish.no matter what other people tell you
Just offer what the last owner fed them
And don't worry until they have not fed for over 6 weeks
You say you just got them give eat time

Don't give them feeders

If you have hiding places they will use them which is why I have a open tank

You say you have driftwood that will soften the water they won't like that being a brackish water fish

People give up way to fast with getting fish feeding

Your the boss not the fish


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mr.bigglesworth said:
Yeah i just finished starving my 6" datnoid 2 days ago. It took the entire month of january and now since then he LOVES massivores and also enjoys frozen worms. Im now trying that on my tiny baby datnoid about 1 cm in length including tail. I do know that he can stand starvation for 3 weeks and still have a belly so it shouldnt be too hard.

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See you need to be strong most tigers give in after 4-6 weeks the human normally gives in first


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