Help feeding my Gold Dojo Loach

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pzuzu

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Hello,

I just got a Gold Dojo Loach two days ago and have yet to see him eat anything. I had read online that they are meat-eaters only, so I got some frozen bloodworms. However, when I dropped them in the tank, all my other fish went ravenous for them and wiped them all out in seconds! Really made me angry cuz I'm supposed to be underfeeding them to get their bellies a little smaller from two weeks of roommates feeding them without my consent (thought it was fun to watch the fish eat). Anyway, how can I get the food to reach the bottom before the other fish attack it? Usually, once the food reaches the gravel, none of the fish touch it, except for a few of the live-bearers. Help! Loach must be starving! Also, I do have live plants with the unavoidable pond snails... will my loach eat these guys as a last resort? At least then I'll know he's eating something!

Thanks!
Fernando
 
I do not know how big the blood worms are but I have sunk food to the bottom with a straw before. McDonalds straws are great because they are larger then most and I attached a few together to reach the bottom. I would stick the straw in the water and drop the food in the straw at the top and shake it up and down a few times untill the food drops out of the straw at the bottom.
 
My dojo (not the golden variety) eats sinking pellets/wafers, flakes, whatever. He doesn't really care, anything in his path gets eaten.
 
Ah... I just tried dropping a little algae wafer for plecos right next to where he was resting and he turned and ate the heck out of it. So he will eat anything...that's definately good to know. I could have sworn I read they were purely carnivorous. I'll still try to get him some bloodworms with a straw. That's a freaking brilliant idea!

Thanks all for the help!

Fernando
 
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