I have a JD who now eats pellets like a garbage disposal. The problem is I have to feed an enormously large amount of pellets to him to sneak wafers down to the cats without him eating them. Anyone have any tips so that I can cut down on the pellet bribery?
difficulty feeding bottom feeders
- Thread starter Yoemen
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Wait to feed until after you turn the lights out and they have been out for a while. Or feed in the morning before you turn them on.
holding him in a net in the water should do the trick, as long as the net is big enough, or you could place the wafers directly on the tank floor.
no need to stress the fish by netting him. just buy a riser tube for an undergravel filter and sink the bottom feeders' food down in that straight to the bottom and feed him at the other end of the tank.
I don't mean net him in the normal way, i simply mean hold the net around him whilst pressing it against the side of the tank. i do it all the time with my betta and he doesn't get too stressed.
it still isnt good. maybe yours is used to it, but in general it isnt good practice to employ netting as a frequent tool when there are less stressing methods out there to achieve the same goal.
well, I don't think it frightens them, because they can still swim around inside the net. this practice is one I learned from my mother, and the only way i can sneak flakes down to my pleco. I also think diverting with your hand would work , too, and would probably be the best way, or putting the wafers directly on the bottom.