Did you do any research before you got them? Young cichla are really hard to get to take 'dead' food. Can you get ghost shrimp? Look around for someone with an overpopulated guppy tank. Baby convicts work well too. What is the temp of you tank?
what to feed baby cichla
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ceeej31;1706090; said:no live feedersweird. then just keep trying blood worms until they take them
It's not weird. It's just that the UK has a law prohibiting the sale of live animals for use as food for other animals. PETA has a deathgrip on the UK, apparently.
bill88;1706083; said:
of course you can
lol your local lfs is bull****ting you around, these fish need guppies, guppies and guppies, thats the only thing that helps, keep on goning with the guppies until they are about 15 cm then you can also give bigger fish and finally theyll eat anything, but if you dont get the guppies theyll die , for sure , so go to the lfs and buy some guppies like 50 of them,feed like 35 of em in a daily schedule and the 15 set them aside and breed them theyll breed like hell, still you; have to buy guppies once a week but in a few weeks like 8 or 9 weeks youl have lots and lots of guppies
oh and dude do some rescearch before you buy a fish, if you dont want to feed them live, do not torture them give them to someone who does take proper care of them
It`s not a case of people not wanting to buy live food in the uk, it`s against the law to feed any live animal to anything.....
And over here a guppy is about £1.80 which is about $4 ish so buying 50 isn`t that easy for some people.
And alot of people go to their lfs and are told absolute crap by the people that work there, people like me and alot of other people on this site will always look the fish up on the net first but some don`t.
I mean if the fish shop says it`s ok to feed the fish bloodworm for instanse then the person will take it as gospel and buy it not knowing that the fish probably hasn`t eaten for a week for that very reason.
It`s when something like this happens that people start thinking mmm maybe i shouldn`t just go with what the worker says and do a little research myself.
I`m not *****ing i just think that if someone says that you should do the homework on the fish before you buy it then they should do their homework as to the laws govening a country instead of just saying that the law can`t be true because that`s what the fish needs......
BILL88
Some people on here have found that kneeling infront of the tank and flicking food in will get the fish eating as the bass think it`s live and moving because of that. Also as itsalmosteasy says you can go to almost any fish shop a get a brineshrimp hatchery that just sits in the corner of your tank and the brine shrimp grow real fast so you`ll always have some live food. http://www.onlineaquariumstore.com/acatalog/Sera_Artemia_Breeding_Kit.html
That one is real cheap and i don`t think it even needs to go into your tank either. Good luck with the fish mate...
And over here a guppy is about £1.80 which is about $4 ish so buying 50 isn`t that easy for some people.
And alot of people go to their lfs and are told absolute crap by the people that work there, people like me and alot of other people on this site will always look the fish up on the net first but some don`t.
I mean if the fish shop says it`s ok to feed the fish bloodworm for instanse then the person will take it as gospel and buy it not knowing that the fish probably hasn`t eaten for a week for that very reason.
It`s when something like this happens that people start thinking mmm maybe i shouldn`t just go with what the worker says and do a little research myself.
I`m not *****ing i just think that if someone says that you should do the homework on the fish before you buy it then they should do their homework as to the laws govening a country instead of just saying that the law can`t be true because that`s what the fish needs......
BILL88
Some people on here have found that kneeling infront of the tank and flicking food in will get the fish eating as the bass think it`s live and moving because of that. Also as itsalmosteasy says you can go to almost any fish shop a get a brineshrimp hatchery that just sits in the corner of your tank and the brine shrimp grow real fast so you`ll always have some live food. http://www.onlineaquariumstore.com/acatalog/Sera_Artemia_Breeding_Kit.html
That one is real cheap and i don`t think it even needs to go into your tank either. Good luck with the fish mate...
I'm surprised they don't take bloodworms..lol..that stuff is like candy. I started mine on bloodworms at a little over an inch. now at over 2 inches all take trout chow 500 floating pellets.
haha i did research actually and i almost kept pbass before but had no problems feeding them. i put sum platies in the tank as dithers and they chase them all the time. will keep trying blood worm and i'll go to the lfs and buy river shrimp for them 2mrw. 50 guppies would cost quite alot as quintas14 stated over here. brineshrimp is quite a good idea... thanks!
i've NEVER had trouble getting a peacock bass to eat.. not when mine were babies, and most certainly not now. and i've NEVER fed live food.
i fed them frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp and chopped up frozen krill when they were tiny. And frozen whole krill, chopped market shrimp, chopped chicken hearts, and chopped chicken breast when they were medium sized.. and now that they can eat most everything whole except the beef heart and chicken breasts they eat what they can whole and i don't chop anything any more, i just cut it into hunks.
i fed them frozen bloodworms, frozen brine shrimp and chopped up frozen krill when they were tiny. And frozen whole krill, chopped market shrimp, chopped chicken hearts, and chopped chicken breast when they were medium sized.. and now that they can eat most everything whole except the beef heart and chicken breasts they eat what they can whole and i don't chop anything any more, i just cut it into hunks.
