Didn't want to make a new thread but I had some massive success today with my flower because I had some worms go bad and haven't had the new ones come in yet so I've just been feeding my 6" wc male mantilla in the same tank split hikari massivore for the past 3 days with no worms.
Well the flower has been interested for the past few weeks and would chomp and spit out but today she is smashing them and destroying the little guy whenever he tries to take one.
Its been a long rough year with this flower from a sump breaking, over stressing due to moves (redid the hardwood and had to shuffle rays around as I went), not eating anything at all for a month straight at two separate times to now taking pellets. She has only grown about an inch or so this past year due to how tough it was to keep her eating and just finally shed her first stinger. She has been the hardest fish to keep by far, even day 1 pups that I bred were easier to keep, or malnourished wc pups.
Either way I'm absolutely thrilled and look forward to seeing her pack on the weight over the next few months. She is currently at 11 or so inches nose to base of tail.
