Paddle Fish : Polyodon spathula

[Moontanman]

its taking some brine shrimps...

I hope you won't mind a suggestion, try to find a frozen product called cyclopseze. Is very nutritious much more so than brine shrimp and will really help get the fish acclimated. If you intend to keep this fish long term i would try to get it to eat a fine pellet. there is a good quality tiny pellet meant for tropical tetras. I think it's make by hikari. this would be my food of choice if I didn't have access to lots of live daphnia.

 

[catfishlover106]

thats cool! you should get a feeding video of it...=]

 

[ewurm]

You don't back away from a challenge Li.

 

[Veacane]

Are you gonna culture your own plankton for them or you gonna have them eat pellets?

 

[Moontanman]

The pellets I was referring to are Hikari micro pellets.

 

[new2natives]

i think i am getting one next week (if the LFS gets them in, they ordered 5) so any tips you get would be appreciated!

 

[Onion01]

i think i am getting one next week (if the LFS gets them in, they ordered 5) so any tips you get would be appreciated!

big, round tub

 

[kendog1]

thats what is so awesome about this site, ive never even seen a paddle fish before, pretty kewl looking for sure, how big do they get?? do they fit into the monster category?

 

[R1_Ridah]

I was at a LFS (Rainbow Pets in Arleta) and they fed it brine shrimp and they went crazy over it. I shot a video with my camera phone and will upload it when I get a chance..

Really active swimming around and eating till their bellys were nice and full. I wanted to buy them all but have no place to put it =-(
Very cool looking fish. First time I've seen one in person.

 

[benzjamin13]

I was at a LFS (Rainbow Pets in Arleta) and they fed it brine shrimp and they went crazy over it. I shot a video with my camera phone and will upload it when I get a chance..

Really active swimming around and eating till their bellys were nice and full. I wanted to buy them all but have no place to put it =-(
Very cool looking fish. First time I've seen one in person.

I was just there a couple of hours ago! Very cool looking fish!