Worried about my new p-bass...

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nero6370

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I have yet to see him eat... I picked him up along with what I now believe to be a loisellei, both 1 1/2 to 2 ". The lois is a eating machine and picks on the p-bass every now and then at which point the bass hides out. Sometimes he will stay in the same spot for hours. I have tried hikari gold baby pellets; neither one ate those. So I switched to frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp which the lois attacks, but the bass won't move for anything. I have even put food close to him so it will drift past him; still nothing. :nilly: I have had the two for exactly 1 week today. My thoughts are to get a divider so the bass can relax and acclimate better without the lois bugging him. Perhaps a different food?? Let me know of any good suggestions. Thanks, Tom

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I would say it is stressed out from getting picked on.P-bass of that size dont have alot of fight in them.I would try putting a bunch of feeder guppies in there to give him a heed.Might get his prey drive going.
 
YOU NEED to feed some LIVE food :( Guppies are fine if your scared of other things.. LIVE food is a Cichla DO :) If you haven't fed any live you really haven't tried to feed your Cichla :( Train him onto non live later :)

Cichla are Piscavores = A Piscivore is a carnivorous animal which lives on eating fish :) Though over a period of time with patience can be converted to non live.. My personal preference is both :) But for the first while it was live food.. As is for most people.. Try some guppies or if you are like me you'll get some rosy reds or some feeders from your lfs that would have the healthiest ones.. TRUST and try it.. :)
 
I would get a divider if possible. For food try some rosey reds for now as that's probably what he was eating and it's his natural instinct to eat them. You should be able to get him to eat them, then fatten him up a little and try switching to prepared.

My cichla didn't eat prepared right away either but to keep them from starving I fed them rosey reds a couple times to fatten them up. And then switched them later.
 
give them a little more time to adapt to the new surroundings. not all to unusual for fish to take a week or more to adjust. also in my experience with pbass they generally do better if you start them out on live (as most stores around me feed them only live) and I try to mix in some flakes or sinkin granuals from time to time as well.. and now mine loves frozen the best....but will even eat flakes....
 
Well the divider seems to be working; plus I dumped a bunch of guppies in the tank. The pbass came alive as soon as the 1st guppy hit the water; he ate about 4 or 5 in as many seconds. :headbang2 :headbang2
 
Glad to hear that the Pbass is doing good now!
 
They eat fish... as you've discovered.

And you have a managuense, not a loiselli
 
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