Little Surprise

[HannahBear77]

So I went to go get feeder fish for my turtle today and in lookin at the gold fish i got (I always look to see if There is a orange and white one so I could put it i with my others) so I'm sitting there and thinking to myself that that gold fish is a different color I never saw one that looked like a cichlid WAIT A MINUTE THAT IS CICHILID!! The poor little guy got mixed in with the feeder fish, so now I find myself rescuing it and don't know if I put it in with my other fish or get my 15g out again and put it in there (which I have no room for) or just feed it to my turtle

 

[Malawi MaD]

What cichlid isit?? Do you have a pic

 

[fluttermoth]

Definitely in the 15g and not with your other fish, at least until you know what kind of cichlid it is. It could be something hightly aggressive, or it might be peaceful, but you need to know first.

Any chance of a pic and we can have a go at identifying it for you

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

Feeder fish tend not to be kept in the greatest conditions, if you want to save it, adding it to a community tank would be rather risky for several weeks. Quarantine is the way forward.

Any idea what cichlid it is (can you upload a photo)? A Malawi "Yellow Lab" or a Tanganyikan "Lemon Cichlid" perhaps?

 

[HannahBear77]

I'm on my iPhone right now In Macy's Ill take a picture of it when I get home or back in the car, I'm not sure what kind it is

 

[Prime Ordeal]

I've never seen fish sold specifically as feeder fish in the UK. Do we have any?

 

[HannahBear77]

you can tell its not feeling well
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[Ace Of Spades]

I heard Orange Gold Fish are good for Turtles, full of Vitamin C!

 

[HannahBear77]

I heard Orange Gold Fish are good for Turtles, full of Vitamin C!

ya its a treat for him whenever my older decides to finally buy him real fish instead of the other stuff he usually buys, i started baby sitting him until he got room in their apartment now i inherited it

 

[N0body Of The Goat]

The vertical striping reminds me of killifish from the Aphanius genus, but I could be way off the mark and it might be a Rift Valley cichlid youngster. Might be worth posting an ID thread with photo in the Old World Cichlid section.

 

[Ace Of Spades]

Looks like some sort of Peacock Hybrid, but that's just me. Maybe someone from the African Cichlid Section may be able to identify it better.

 

[Prime Ordeal]

WAIT A MINUTE THAT IS CICHILID!! The poor little guy got mixed in with the feeder fish, so now I find myself rescuing it

So the poor little guy is the cichlid that's getting rescued and not the poor feeder fish that are going to be eaten alive. What a crazy, sick world we live in!

 

[HannahBear77]

WAIT A MINUTE THAT IS CICHILID!! The poor little guy got mixed in with the feeder fish, so now I find myself rescuing it

So the poor little guy is the cichlid that's getting rescued and not the poor feeder fish that are going to be eaten alive. What a crazy, sick world we live in!

my 15g would be full of gold fish but i really dont care for them but we kept a couple of the gold fish today for my niece and my turtle hasnt eaten in a long time, he came straight from the wild so he gets bored so i get fish every once in awhile for him

 

[three-fingers]

I've never seen fish sold specifically as feeder fish in the UK. Do we have any?

Nope, it's illegal here for ethical reasons. Ethical reasons aside - feeder fish are very, very unhealthy food to feed and very risky too.

I heard Orange Gold Fish are good for Turtles, full of Vitamin C!

Where did you hear this? Any reliable source? I have only ever heard to the contrary...

Goldfish are very high in thiaminese - an enzyme that breaks down vitamin D, so regularly feeding goldfish leads to a vitamin D deficiency - vitamin D is especially important for turtles! Especially in captivity where they receive less UVB radiation from the sun - even if you have a UV bulb feeding goldfish is a very counter-productive food when considering turtle health.

Even worse most turtles in the pet trade (i.e. sliders) are mainly herbivorous when adult, so feeding live fish makes even less sense.

Anyone wishing to be educated on the practice of using feeder fish, read this pinned topic - Feeder Fish Mini-faq: The Pros And Cons .

he came straight from the wild so he gets bored so i get fish every once in awhile for him

Is that even legal where you live? Do you have a permit for keeping wild reptiles in captivity?

Have you researched into the the ecology of your turtle species before getting it? If you think the turtle is "bored", why not return it to the wild and keep a species which doesn't get as "bored" in your tank? Feeding unatural and unhealthy food is not a good way to enrich a captive animals life...

 

[HannahBear77]

idk if its illegal or not to keep reptiles from the wild and no i dont

personally i think its dumb to take animals out of their natural habitat just leave them in the wild..we ended up rescuing because my older brother his fiance's sister found it in myrtle beach and decided to take it home put it in a fish bowl with barely any water and didnt take good care of it at all so my brother did his research on the type of turtle it was and what type of food it eats and every thing, i ended up with it because he didnt want it in his apartment when they got a snake and he became a lot of work when he got bigger for them im giving it until summer and then im gonna introduce him back into the wild because i just feel sorry for him now

personally i didnt know feeder fish were bad, my bad on my part for not doing the research, but we havent fed them to him very often we usually feed him stuff more plant related or i usually do since im the primary care taker for him now