Rio araguaia kelb comes today!!

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sorry guys ive been slacking on updates. the kelb is looking thin, because im trying to get it and the orinos on pellets, but no luck :( its been a week with no food. im going to get feeders today.
 
You can't starve juvie cichla, your going to stunt them.
 
Yeah man just feed it feeders.. People make a big deal about it but what do you think they eat in the wild? All you need to do is make sure the feeders are CLEAN and healthy


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I u.understand and thats why I bought feeders today. Problem is I don't have room to qt the feeders. So what I do a preventive thing is treat my tank every so often prazi pro. I'm just gonna stuff them feeders I guess till they are roughly 8".

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rjkz28 said:
I u.understand and thats why I bought feeders today. Problem is I don't have room to qt the feeders. So what I do a preventive thing is treat my tank every so often prazi pro. I'm just gonna stuff them feeders I guess till they are roughly 8".

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Hey man I dunno how many pbass you have or have had, so I hope I don't insult you by offering a little help.

Nothing wrong with feeding feeders to these guys, these fish are designed to eat live food in the wild, where no treatment is available. Their bodies are designed to breakdown their food and extract all possible nutrients in the process. With that being said, yes, pellets do in fact have more nutritional benefits than feeders.

Start by getting them on frozen, it's a simple process but it's time consuming and takes some patience. The idea is to get your guys to fight for their food, to think if they don't eat as fast as possible they're going to starve. Do this by promoting top water feeding, instead of pouring all feeders in at once, drop them in one at a time. Make sure the first few are spread as evenly as possible between your fish, but make sure you end with some not eating as much as others. This will turn feeding into a competition for them and allow you to drop virtually anything in and have it hit (including fingers... Be careful LOL). Now that you have them eating like this start by cutting the live fish in half and feeding them one live, one cut, one live, one cut, and slowly ween yourself into only feeding cut. Once they re successfully eating cut on the top water, buy yourself some frozen krill, silversides, market shrimp, or market tilapia. Cut them up in pieces. Now repeat the cut, with frozen cycle until they're only eating frozen. Mind you by frozen, I always heat the food up in warm water first. As you can imagine the next step is switching to pellets, same process as above. Rotate until you've weened them completely off frozen.

This method is pretty fool proof, it took me about 3 weeks to get my juvies on frozen only. Unfortunately right now I haven't moved these guys to pellets, haven't purchased any and I plan on waiting until they're about 10 inches to move to pellets.



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