Recently i got a juvenile red snakehead... Its not eating..at all..!! ... the pet store gave me something called Aqua power green..it says here its a floating type pellet.. im getting concerned.. its been a couple of days now... any ideas..????
I don't have experience with snakeheads... But if ur worried then go with something live while its adjusting to new environment... Few predators can resist live feeders. I've had to do this with a couple fish along the way.
Just don't let it get used to crappy LFS feeder fish that don't have any real nutrients and are often disease ridden.
earlier i kept it in a tank but my crayfish twice got hold of it and it tried to eat it... since then i've been keeping it in a fish bowl till i get hold of my other tank...
its a biig fish bowl..its only for a day or two.. by juvenile i mean baby snakehead.. yes its been bitten but its not bad as it sounds... its not laying on the bottom or have trouble swimming... it dint eat even when it was in the fish tank
probably stressed, you shouldn't have mixed it with the cray , you asked everyone advised against it, now you know why.
Let's see this fish bowl! Snakeheads need lot's of hiding places to feel safe,especially if you've already stressed it out by sticking it with that cray fish. If it's not comfortable in it's home it wont eat.
you could try meaty foods (shopped shrimp etc) or if that also fails live feeders , but again if the setup isn't right it likely wont eat anything until you fix it.
Agree with DC. It was probably stressed from the introduction to a new tank, then the crayfish incident, now the fishbowl. Snakeheads are also stressed by frequent water changes, so keeping the bowl clean without adding another stressor will increase the challenge.
Give it a proper environment with plenty of cover. Then a bit of patience and it should start to accept meaty food.
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It is very dangerous to keep a juvenile red snakehead with a crayfish. I have seen my crayfish managed to catch a feeder snakehead (juvenile, about 2.5 inches) as it tried to swim in front, across the crayfish... and that's the end of that snakehead.
... the pet store gave me something called Aqua power green..it says here its a floating type pellet.. im getting concerned.. its been a couple of days now... any ideas..????
