So I got a few Pbass a few months back (guessing farmies because only $10 each for them) For the first month or so they didn't seem to grow. I was feeding them blood worms, red wigglers and the occasional feeder. Eventually I gave in and let them fatten up on feeders till they had grown to around 5". I then was able to ween them off feeders and accept massivore. one took to it sooner and of course grew faster and is the dominant of the two. Once i got my 300g set up they were moved from the 180g they shared with my jag pair, 2 sun cats, a brown knife fish and a featherfin squeaker. After moving them the smaller of the two was refusing to eat again even with massivore. I finally got it to start eating when I ran out of massivore and decided to try hikari cichlid gold. The larger PB will eat it but the smaller one still refuses. It will take the occasional worm, but still wants nothing to do with the pellets. Or I should say it won't eat them, occasionally it will hit them but then spit it back out, so I know it recognizes it as food. It won't take frozen krill or fillet of sole either. This difference in willingness to eat has resulted in a drastic size difference between the two now. The larger PB is 9-10" long with a height somewhere around 3", the smaller is still 6.5 -7" and only about 2" in height with the head looking slightly larger than the rest of its body.
A few weeks ago I moved all the fish form my 180 except the jag pair and their fry because the jags were terrorizing the 3 catfish and brown knife. They were all getting along fine with no signs of aggression. Well when I got home today and walked into the fish room to feed the juvenile umbees I'm trying to grow out, I noticed the larger PB looked strange. Upon closer inspection I noticed it had the tail of the brown knife hanging out of its mouth. Since the knife was at least 6" and only an inch of the tail was hanging out of the PB's mouth I didn't even bother trying to save it.
Do any of you chichla experts on here have advise on how to get the stubborn one to eat so it has a chance of catching up to its sibling?
A few weeks ago I moved all the fish form my 180 except the jag pair and their fry because the jags were terrorizing the 3 catfish and brown knife. They were all getting along fine with no signs of aggression. Well when I got home today and walked into the fish room to feed the juvenile umbees I'm trying to grow out, I noticed the larger PB looked strange. Upon closer inspection I noticed it had the tail of the brown knife hanging out of its mouth. Since the knife was at least 6" and only an inch of the tail was hanging out of the PB's mouth I didn't even bother trying to save it.
Do any of you chichla experts on here have advise on how to get the stubborn one to eat so it has a chance of catching up to its sibling?
