Re: Food problems

[Frode Johansen <frode.johansen@bio.uio.no>]

Hi Yvan

I've tried both to not give them food for two days, and also to add BBS 
together with other food. No results.
They are alone in the tank. Maybe adding some other fish is a good idea.

- Frode -

At 09:36 13.03.01 -0800, you wrote:
>hi frode,
>i was wondering, are your tastefull fish alone in a tank? Because i would
>say that competition on food would make them eat whatever you give them. If
>you add other apisto in the same tank that already eat worms or whatever
>else it would i think encourage those juvenile to do the same.
>If you want to keep them alone, what about kind of forcing them to eat by
>starving them  a day or two? I don't know what you all think but at some
>point animal have survival reflexes and won't let themself starved to death.
>Another solution might be to progressively change the food by adding with
>the BBS very small amount of another food sothat they get use to the smell,
>the taste of it and seing it.
>Here are my  2 cents.
>Hope you'll find a solution
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