Please help me and my red devil

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Ram Charan

Jack Dempsey
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Jul 29, 2008
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hi...
couple of months back i have bought a juvenile red devil. He was living upto his name at first and he started harassing his tank mates just when he was 2 inches!!! Then i have shifted into another tank. He had no problem with that and used to eat nicely.Now he is 4 inches.
The problem now i face is that he STOPPED EATING:(:(. he shares his new tank with a mbuna. I tried giving him Bloodworms which he promptly rejected. I tried giving him Special cichlid pellets. This was also not successful. The mbuna eats away all of his food. First he used to pester the Mbuna but now the mbuna has created a territory of his own and the devil gets scared to go there:confused:. Just once in a while he eats Tubifex worms...and that too very little.
I am maintaining the tank well. I request you ppl to help me overcoming this problem.
Thanx in advance
 
He used to be in a 100 G tank but now he is in a 25G tank. It's been long that i've changed his tank and he got adjusted to it.
 
This is odd.
I don't know what to tell u besides keep feeding him and eventually he should eat it, as long as he doesn't have any diseases.

Good Luck
 
It's been almost a week now. He hardly ate anything. Just a couple of cubes of tubifex worms!!!
I am not that much worried about his appetite. The thing which worries me the most is that..he backs off when the Mbuna threatens him!!! And about his food i really dont want to loose him and hate to imagine him with a STUNTED GROWTH
 
Sounds like you have a mature mbuna in a small tank with a baby RD and he's getting picked on. Remove the mbuna since they don't really mix well anyway, or better yet put the RD back in the 100g tank where he was thriving. GL
 
ya...i have tried that.He just goes and sits in a cornor and hides under the filter.He just panics when he sees the net and gets too much stressed up. I have observed him for a week like this and again shifted him to the smaller tank where he started to accept tubifex worms. One more problem is that he cannot compete for food in the 100 G tank as the texas and the Tin Foil barbs snatch away all the food!!
 
My RD/Midas is not a big eater ..He will eat onece a day and sometimes every couple days. When it gets hungry,if i skip a few days hes right up there to grab some food though..[/B]
 
Oh...so it's common for RD's to go on a hunger strike??
Does it reduce their aggression and make them HUMBLE!!! Will it not effect their growth??
 
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