Come on... Eat it

[Wolfdog]

Ive had my Rams since Saturday and have been having trouble getting them to eat. First i tried flakes but they never went to the top to eat, or even the flakes that sunk. Then i used blood worms and my gold ram seemed to getta few bites of them.

I have a black skirt tetra that ive had forever that in in there with them in the 10gal. He pretty much gets to the food before anyone. One i dont want to put too much food in to polute the tank, and Two i dont want my Black Skirt to get too fat!

Its been three days now with out the Blue Ram eating, that i know of. He might of gotten some leftover blood worms?... Any help is great!

Wolf

 

[Dwarfs]

This is common behavior for new fish IME Let the rams settle in for another day or two, and then tempt them to eating with live or frozen foods. Turning up the temperature a little bit can also help make a fish start eating

 

[yvez9]

i've had german blue rams for a little more than a month before they died

they didn't eat flakes or pellets but they were nice and round, they didn't look skinny

they would eat the frozen foods though.

they died of some weird infection afetr a little more than a month. I loved those guys

 

[StarOrbs]

I've never had rams but most fish tend to not eat the first few days. My firemouths are an exception they eat their first day. My severum though it took a few days before he started going up top to get food.

 

[Wolfdog]

Well woke up this morning and the Blue was darting to the top then kinda sinking back to the bottom. Swimming around like hes retarted. These things suck. Their not even fun in the tank. Hel be dead by the time i get home... The gold is ok? But he seems to be doing that same breating hard that the blue was doing earlier.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Wolf

 

[fufanu360]

for some reason, i can just plop a fish in the tank (after allicamating) and it will be ready to eat im just lucky

 

[lucky62]

Well woke up this morning and the Blue was darting to the top then kinda sinking back to the bottom. Swimming around like hes retarted. These things suck. Their not even fun in the tank. Hel be dead by the time i get home... The gold is ok? But he seems to be doing that same breating hard that the blue was doing earlier.
GRRRRRRRRRRRR

Wolf

Sorry Wolfdog , maybe consider some other type of dwarf cichlid , Rams can be hard to feed at times , wild caught specimens[ maybe what you have/had ] sometimes need to be trained to eat prepared foods such as flakes , and will even turn their nose up to frozen foods .
And some will just eat live foods and live foods only

Or maybe yours were just ill to begin with .