Pangasius Feeding

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ITHURTZ

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Apr 11, 2007
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When I first got them I have been putting tropical crisps via copper tube onto the gravel and kept the fish away so they could eat. I dont want them to rely on this and want them to hunt. Past few days I have been playing with them and see if they actually see the crisps comming down from the water. My biggest one (4") can grab the crisps floating down but the smaller one (3.25ish") doesnt get the drift yet. Eventually I would like them to eat at the surface with all the others but I dont know if thats possible?

Just about all my fish are rapid eaters and I would like to make the cats one as well. Does it just come with size that they open up and eat anything and everything or is this going to be a game of feed me or starve.
 
i imagine that in a few months they will start eating off the surfac, my bullhead used to eat only off the bottom but in the last month i had him,i d drop in a pellet and within half a minute hed be swallowing it down. like i said itll ha[[en eventually.
 
I agree, in time they should learn to eat from the surface, but they do swim a lot, and mine seems to ignore food for the first 30 seconds or so even when they hit him in the head. lol
 
how big do these guys get in captivity anyways? just curious...my cousin friend has one in a large pond and was worried that it wont grow anymore with his other catfishes...hes in the Philippines...he gots a red arowana,silver arowana,jardini,rtc,rtgg,tsn,black and red pacus...those arowanas are about 15"-18" and the catfishes are in the range of 7"-14" and that paroon shark...is about 5" and their are iridescent sharks about 3 of them...at about 7"...and the pangasius...thats the paroon shark ryt?
 
Paroon is different than pangasius. The pans with a huge amount of water should get 36"+. I hope mine atleast get past 24"
 
Mine went from 3" to 15"+ in about a year, they would eat anything ( shrimp pellets, cat food/dry, mealworms) small bloodworms worked them up into a frenzy . They grew so large I had to find another home for them....
While I had them they where one of my favorites....
 
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