Rope Fish are frustrating to feed...

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dbcb314

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Its seems I have two options with them:

1- feed the "correct" amount of food and have then never eat

2- over feed like mad so they have a chance to get full. this = twice as many water changes.

They are just soooooooooooooooooooo slow to recognize food is in the water and then it takes them forever to actually find a piece. What is funny/sad is when they seem to "lock on" to a piece of food... then my fat sen comes through and snatches it at the last second lol.

And it isn't like I am keeping them with cichlids either haha.

Anyone else have the problem with slow eating ropes??
 
dbcb314;2945323; said:
Its seems I have two options with them:

1- feed the "correct" amount of food and have then never eat

2- over feed like mad so they have a chance to get full. this = twice as many water changes.

They are just soooooooooooooooooooo slow to recognize food is in the water and then it takes them forever to actually find a piece. What is funny/sad is when they seem to "lock on" to a piece of food... then my fat sen comes through and snatches it at the last second lol.

And it isn't like I am keeping them with cichlids either haha.

Anyone else have the problem with slow eating ropes??
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My ropefish seems to do the same thing before as I used to have just 3. Ever since I introduced more ropefish now I got 12 of them. They started to come out more and get more food and able to compete with my bichirs.

Usually keeping 1-4 ropefish with some bichirs or other fish, they tend to hide or just being lazy. However if keep with more ropefish 5 or more then they seem to start being active and able to compete for food. Reason why, all of them don't fit inside their hiding place and are force to come out. Every feeding time, tose that are active or in the open are the first one to get the food. Those that are still hiding will come out late.
 
I have a single rope fish (I know, I'm looking for more :) ) and when it comes to shrimp, she can't seem to eat the pieces fast enough, but now that I switched to massivore which breaks up easier once it soaks in water, than shrimp does, she is able to eat faster and she's putting on a nice thickness to her lol

So I guess in my case the 'correct' amount of food works for me.
 
I dunno, my ropefish are on the ball when food drops... not as quick as my sens or polli, but certainly fast enough to get their fair share. I have three though, and the food generally drifts to where they are and its bare bottom, so its not a pain to clean.
 
to keep others from eating the foods for ropefish use a 2 liter bottle.place the food in the bottle then put the bottle in the tank letting it fill the ropes can come and go as they please while the other tankmates can't-Anne
 
My ropefish must be very smart then. It knows exactly when I put his beefheart/frozen food in and come directly torwards it. It lets me hand feed and pet it. Also it is a formittable eater next to my P. Senegalus. Although neither are that big. The Rope it about 1 1/2 feet, and the P. Senegalus is only 4". But even they do not match with buba.
 
Actually the rope is avgerge size adult -Anne
 
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