Young JD Feeding

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jkw128

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May 18, 2013
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Peterborough, UK
Hi all and thanks for any help in advanced.
I have a full grown red spotted severum and 4" EBJD in a 55 gallon, had the severum for over a year the EBJD under a month, everything is going fine and no signs of aggression.
The Severum eats the sinking pellets I give him but the EBJD is never interested by them, however he eats the flakes like no ones business.
My worry is as he's growing when are flakes not enough for him anymore?
I am getting some frozen bloodworms to mix up his food choice this weekend so will see how he likes these.
Will I be best with floating pellets as he never seems interested in the sinking ones?
I'm just worried flakes alone arent enough for a growing fish.
 
you do want to break him to pellets, at 4" just looking to get normal cichlid pellets, not super pellets. It can be a bit frustrating to break him to it. keep in mind he can go 3 weeks with out eating but he will not go that far. he will eat them, usually takes 4 to 6 days to break a fish to them. again he can go weeks with out eating and not going to hurt him.
 
oh sorry get floaters so during the piss off stage you can remove them easier if not eaten.
 
It's now been 8 days since I have fed flakes, every day I have put some floating Hikari Cichlid Good mini pellets in the tank and the EBJD has shown no interest to them.
He tried one the second day but spat it straight out, other than that's he hasn't even took notice of them.
Im not sure what to do seeing he has no interest in them, any advice would be much appreciated.
 
I have heard that EBJD's can get really stressed out from any tankmate, even if there is no aggression. I would try removing one or the other for a little while, and see what happens with the EBJD. Have you tried brine shrimp? Mine also enjoys that, as well as on the rare occasion when I feed him a guppy fry. He should be ok on high quality flake food, though.
 
jkw128 said:
It's now been 8 days since I have fed flakes, every day I have put some floating Hikari Cichlid Good mini pellets in the tank and the EBJD has shown no interest to them.
He tried one the second day but spat it straight out, other than that's he hasn't even took notice of them.
Im not sure what to do seeing he has no interest in them, any advice would be much appreciated.
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just keep doing the same, he can go 3 weeks with out eating but will not be that long, he will learn to eat them. no cichlid starving to death with food in front of them. you either break the fish or the fish break you.
 
jkw128 said:
It's now been 8 days since I have fed flakes, every day I have put some floating Hikari Cichlid Good mini pellets in the tank and the EBJD has shown no interest to them.
He tried one the second day but spat it straight out, other than that's he hasn't even took notice of them.
Im not sure what to do seeing he has no interest in them, any advice would be much appreciated.
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Just keep trying. It's a good thing he actually took the pellet but spit it out. At least he showed some interest. My male jag I used to have took 2 weeks before he finally gave in from living off of feeder fish. The only one I haven't had success with is the Marble datnoid. He actually starved himself to death. But don't give in. He'll come around.

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