payara stopped eating

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Ej6hatchie

Ej6hatchie

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Hello MFK,

after having my scomb off live for about 8 months, i decided to sell off all of its tankmates in order to control my bioload. it was housed with 4 large delhezi bichirs and my scomb never really had an issue with them. usually they all hang out in the corner until i rained food from above. I noticed after selling off all the bichirs, the payara stopped eating, but water parameters became more controllable. It has been around 3 weeks and water parameter readings are good. its currently housed in a 4ft long 55 gallon with a 20 gal sump. it used to eat tilapia and cut up shrimp. in efforts to get it to eat, i already had quarantined feeders for my other fish that I threw in, and it just swims with them. it has been 2 weeks and it seems as if the payara is "schooling" with the feeder fish.

Any pointers?
 
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Yep,wait it out lol.My armatus used to do that and while I do not have a great deal of experience with scombs I have had a few armatus and they have all fasted at point or another.
Armatus don't like change....especially to be netted and moved as mine always reacted violently to it and once relocated they would not eat for a week or so.It's a shot in the dark but it could be that the change in the ammount of tankmates could have caused your scomb to stop eating.How big is the scomb by the way?
 
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the scomb is around 8 inch and swims around the tank and acts normally, not skittish at all. but it just doesnt eat and got pretty skinny. it used to eat so much it would have a round belly from stealing food from my bichirs
 
hopefully it eats something soon, id rather retrain it to eat dead food than see it starve to death honestly lol...
 
Just offer food every day or so.When it gets hungry enough it will start eeating again...as long as nothing is ailing it which does not seem to be the case.
 
How long have you had the scomb for? I kept 13 of them for about a year and they grew from about 3"-4" to about 12" and they started to die off... They seem to have a short lifespan, atleast in home aquaria. Maybe your scomb has reached its old age..? And older fish tend to eat less in general. Just a thought.
 
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^....and then there is that....them dying off at a certain size.I don't thilnk I have ever laid eyes on a scomb that was over twelve inches in length.
 
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krichardson said:
^....and then there is that....them dying off at a certain size.I don't thilnk I have ever laid eyes on a scomb that was over twelve inches in length.
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Actually, you know I'm sitting in front of my aquarium (the same one in which I had my scombs in) and staring at my 12" armie and my 13" red tail and "the biggest scomb I had in here was not as big as either of these guys." Time has made me exaggerate their size lol. They were most likely around 10".
 
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sunnysjourney said:
Actually, you know I'm sitting in front of my aquarium (the same one in which I had my scombs in) and staring at my 12" armie and my 13" red tail and "the biggest scomb I had in here was not as big as either of these guys." Time has made me exaggerate their size lol. They were most likely around 10".
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How does the army treat the tat?
 
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