What kind of fish is this?

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I’m having the hardest time getting my peacock bass off of feeders. So instead of feeding them goldfish, I get chubs from the bait store. Rosies are imo to small as well as guppies. I’ve tried feeding theM what my other fish eat (shrimp, tilapia ect, even crickets, worms and crayfish they won’t touch). They will chew but always spit out silver slides I buy frozen. They haven’t eaten all n about a week. So I went out to get some chubs and the store won’t have any for a while. Went to another place and he only has what he called pike chubs which I never heard of. Does anyone know exactly what this fish is? And does anyone know if bait store fish like chubs are safer? Thanks

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Mfkjr75 said:
I’m having the hardest time getting my peacock bass off of feeders. So instead of feeding them goldfish, I get chubs from the bait store. Rosies are imo to small as well as guppies. I’ve tried feeding theM what my other fish eat (shrimp, tilapia ect, even crickets, worms and crayfish they won’t touch). They will chew but always spit out silver slides I buy frozen. They haven’t eaten all n about a week. So I went out to get some chubs and the store won’t have any for a while. Went to another place and he only has what he called pike chubs which I never heard of. Does anyone know exactly what this fish is? And does anyone know if bait store fish like chubs are safer? Thanks

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Looks like a Hogsucker.
 
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I would say it looks like a washed out Chinese algae eater but the mouth is wrong.
 
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Pellet train seems almost impossible for these two. I can get the female to eat frozen fish, and sometimes shrimp and tilapia (which I’m ok with) but the male is extremely stubborn and won’t even eat shrimp or tilapia, nor frozen silver slides. I am eventually planning on giving the female (Xingu) away but the male is a mono peacock and they are one of my favorites. I eventually want to find another mono peacock bass but a female to have them breed. In my other tank I have four Orinoco peacock bass. I am absolutely making sure to have these little guys trained to eat prepared foods and hopefully pellets as well.
 
Patience, patience, patience. If it's already taking in the food and spitting it out your half way there. I had one holdout for over 8 months once.
I picked up 2 wild caught bass to go with the 2 pellet trained ones I already had, all of them were about 5". Both the new ones sucked in a pellet within a couple days, one if them broke in about a week. The other wouldn't even touch anything but live for 8 months.
It's hard to starve then I know, especially when they're an expensive fish. I would go 4-5 weeks at a time before breaking down and feeding him live, the drag was I had to feed them all live as I only had one tank running.
It got so bad I eventually had to set up tank four him as the others were now more than double his size.
After 8 months it finally took a piece of cut fish and a week later it took pellets.

It's hard but they can go a long time without food and rarely with starve themselves to death.
Have patience and it'll pay off.
 
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