Hello! new to these forums and (relatively) new to keeping ropefish, ive had 2 for a few months now and they seem to be doing well, skittish but there active and have a good appetite for what they want to eat and have since day 1, which brings me to my questions, for the time ive had these two ive been feeding frozen bloodworms and freeze-dried mealworms, which after doing more research and reading the pinned post here seem to be WAY to fatty (25%) so im trying to get them off of them.
which is a shame as the mealworms seem to be there favorite thing if one of them goes missing for a week or so and im starting to worry hes found a hole to jump out of and is died up on my floor ive gotten into the habit of just placing 2-3 in the water and not 30 seconds later hes out and eating.
the issue is ive tried hikari carnivore pellets which i did not have high hopes for them taking too and they havent, ive gotten as far as the two will bite at them and immediately spit the pellet out. i don't know if this is a good sign that there biting at them or a bad one that there biting and still rejecting them.
as i mentioned above they do eat frozen bloodworms, but arn't nearly as crazy for them. i also know that with say, reptiles, a varied diet is important so i've just the other day tried introducing frozen brine shrimp but ive had no feeding response at all to those, even when i added them after the two ropes are in the middle of happily hunting down the beloved mealworms.
So i guess TL: DR- ive got two ropes eating the equivalent of a big-mac twice a week, and have had no success in convincing them to try something healthier, are their any tried and true tips that might help? do i just need to give it more time?
which is a shame as the mealworms seem to be there favorite thing if one of them goes missing for a week or so and im starting to worry hes found a hole to jump out of and is died up on my floor ive gotten into the habit of just placing 2-3 in the water and not 30 seconds later hes out and eating.
the issue is ive tried hikari carnivore pellets which i did not have high hopes for them taking too and they havent, ive gotten as far as the two will bite at them and immediately spit the pellet out. i don't know if this is a good sign that there biting at them or a bad one that there biting and still rejecting them.
as i mentioned above they do eat frozen bloodworms, but arn't nearly as crazy for them. i also know that with say, reptiles, a varied diet is important so i've just the other day tried introducing frozen brine shrimp but ive had no feeding response at all to those, even when i added them after the two ropes are in the middle of happily hunting down the beloved mealworms.
So i guess TL: DR- ive got two ropes eating the equivalent of a big-mac twice a week, and have had no success in convincing them to try something healthier, are their any tried and true tips that might help? do i just need to give it more time?