hi guys, i just rescued
"lucifer"
a full grown red devil from a local petco, he was sitting in a 10 gallong tank hiding behind a rock, and of course noone gave a sh** about him, or that he couldnt swim more then 5 inches in any direction. Someone had brought him in complaining he killed everything in his 30 gallon tank, (wonder why) so i adopted him and now hes in my 50 gallon (by himself), soon to be 125 hopefully. Hes been with me for about 4 days now, hes very active now that he has relaxed a bit, allready started rearaging his tank and attacking me through the glass
im becoming concered tho, he has some very strang feeding patterns, ive tried both small and large pellets, he wont touch the large pellets, puts the small 1's in his mouth and then spits them out. I figured I couldnt go wrong with feeder fish so bought a few of them and gave him 1...this is where it gets weird..he seriously will swim right up to it, and even TOUCH it when his face! and then just turn around and swim away...2 seconds later, charges it, then just looks at it and swims away, he repeats this for a undetermined ammount of time, but i have never seen him eat it! Sometimes he even puts the fish in his mouth and then just repeatadly spits him back out. ill come back hours later and it will be shredded at the bottom of the tank, but wont look like he did much eating, rather then just mutilating. Im confused, and im gettin worried he isnt eating enough, been 4 or so days now. Ive tried pellets, and live fish..Ive yet to try worms or flakes, its tough because i have no idea what he was eating in his previous home, ive never owned such a finicky fish! Any ideas??
EDIT: just dropped a blood worm cube in there, wont eat those either, just staring at them


EDIT: just dropped a blood worm cube in there, wont eat those either, just staring at them