Barramundi Food

[Seether]

Hey -

Ive been having trouble with what to feed my Barra. Its after the wet season (we fed him tadpoles as they were everywhere and fatter than fish!) and into dry season here. He wont take dead food or bait.
We've tried feeding him worms but unsucsessfully. He'll only take live food. What can i feed him? Ive recently bought some liverbearers as they breed often enoguh but still they take a month to grow and ntil my fry get to that point and breed again its too long.
What can i fed him or how can I sway him into eating something like dead prawns or pellets?

http/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barramundi

 

[england]

hope this helps
http/www.fao.org/docrep/field/003/AB881E...E02.htm#ch2.2.1

does you fish shop sell feeder shrimp, also try garden worms/maggots/crickets you can try local fishing shops for bait, also look into going to a fish mongers and buying fresh fish and prawns.....my snakeheads took a while without any other feeding and now readily take pellets,liking cichlid hilraki red pellets

 

[nmonks]

Barramundi will take pellets; unless you caught your specimen from a river, the barramundi in the ornamental fish trade all come from fish farms, and on those farms they're fed pellets. (For obvious reasons!)

Barramundi are opportunistic feeders, and should take a variety of foods. They hunt by sight, so wiggling foods enticingly will be important; I use long steel forceps for this. Properly acclimated aquarium specimens take live, frozen and pellet foods. Weaning predatory fish onto non-live foods requires patience, persistence, and a certain amount of discipline on your part; people who think their fish won't take non-live foods usually haven't tried hard enough.

There is no way on Earth you'll ever be able to produce sufficient live fish to safely feed a barramundi at home: they're huge fish, and eat massive amounts of food. So you may as well get this idea out of your head. Instead, concentrate on things like strips of white fish, squid, prawns, krill, and so on. If you have a small specimen, then insect larvae will be taken too.

Remember that they are crepuscular fish, and will be actively looking for food only when the lights are out. Ensure the tank has plenty of caves and especially floating plants, and offer food when the lights are off, at least to begin with.

Cheers, Neale