new fish not sure about
#1 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 12:34 AM
im not new to fish keeping but this is a fish ive never took care off so im looking for advice
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#2 Guest_FirstChAoS_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 01:21 AM
#3 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 01:37 AM
But idk it's really sick from the ammonia produced by the gold fish it was with
#4 Guest_fundulus_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 08:44 AM
#5 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 11:42 AM
#6 Guest_Usil_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 01:00 PM
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#7 Guest_EricaWieser_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 03:29 PM
What are you feeding it? If you want it to stay alive and it refuses to eat fish flakes or pellets, you can try the following foods.
1. Thawed frozen blood worms (most pet stores nowadays have them for about $5 for 30 blocks)
2. Live brine shrimp or glass shrimp (pet stores, a dollar a bag)
3. Freeze dried brine, gammarus or other shrimps (pet stores, four dollars a jar)
4. Chopped up earthworms from a local bait or gardening shop
5. If all else fails, your grocery store should carry bags of unbreaded cocktail shrimp for about five to ten bucks. If you dice them up into super small pieces, the baby sunfish will probably eat them.
Sunfish are carnivorous, so you'll want to tempt it with pieces of meat and worms. It will grow large enough to eat smaller fish, so don't keep it in the same aquarium as any fish that you would be sad if it ate. As it ages we should be more certain with the species ID, which will tell you how large it will grow and what other fish it can eat.
Edited by EricaWieser, 02 January 2012 - 03:42 PM.
#8 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 02 January 2012 - 04:13 PM
#9 Guest_don212_*
Posted 04 January 2012 - 08:42 AM
i captured 2 fish that look just like that in withlacoochee river in fl. the bands make me think they are banded sunfish,Enneacanthus, obesus, mine seem to be doing fine and take flakes, pellets, dried shrimp, i also have what i believe is a bluegill which is much plainer, and too agressive for my tank, but i'm having trouble catching him ,hope your fish recovers wellAlright cool thanks for the info, I've been fishing my whole life and my grandpa knows a whole bout fish and know that their carnivores...so I've been feeding it the dried blood worms for now that i feed my tropical fish until I get to the bait shop or pet shop and he's been eating it in little amounts but it's been eating, it was in a tank of feeder gold fish so the ammonia irritated his gills and scales but I got him in a quarantine tank on my room and been keeping an eye on him and it's doing great now
#10 Guest_gerald_*
Posted 04 January 2012 - 04:43 PM
#11 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 05 January 2012 - 07:03 PM
#12 Guest_gzeiger_*
Posted 05 January 2012 - 07:11 PM
#13 Guest_crazyboutfish77_*
Posted 05 January 2012 - 07:36 PM
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