feeding stick
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cincyreefer
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I don't think you really need to use a feeding stick. I would just put the food in a spot with gentle current so it sinks to the bottom and the sharks can get it.
armageddon
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The feeding stick i made for feeding my eel is just a long skinny plastic rod sharpened a bit at one end.
Andrew
Andrew
trigger reid
Member
you might wanna be careful with the wire in case is cuts the fish when your feeding them so put some plastic tubing at the ends of the wire so i doesnt harm the fish
cincyreefer
Active Member
Try ghost shrimp if it doesn't eat real soon.... That should hopefully stimulate its appetite so it starts eating frozen foods.
squidd
Active Member
I haven't had much luck with "feeding" sticks...I've used the clear acrylic ones you can get at the LFS and the long tongs...
It seems to me that "waving" a chunk of food in front of a fish causes more stress than eliciting a feeding responce...
And I have tried the subtle approaches and "lifelike" manouvers...
When I did get a fish to "strike" more often than not they would hit/feel the stick and drop the food.
To get your shark to eat (as well as the above responses) you may want to try "leading" the shark to food...
Thaw a cube of "ground" squid and suck it up a turkey baster...then squirt a small amount in front of the shark...he should move forward a bit and eat it...
Eventually you can "lead" him around the tank with squirts of food...as he starts to associate the 'smell" of food with eating you will eventually be able to elicit a feeding/hunting response just by "swishing' food in the water column.
At that point he will hunt down and find most anything you put in the tank...
It seems to me that "waving" a chunk of food in front of a fish causes more stress than eliciting a feeding responce...
And I have tried the subtle approaches and "lifelike" manouvers...
When I did get a fish to "strike" more often than not they would hit/feel the stick and drop the food.
To get your shark to eat (as well as the above responses) you may want to try "leading" the shark to food...
Thaw a cube of "ground" squid and suck it up a turkey baster...then squirt a small amount in front of the shark...he should move forward a bit and eat it...
Eventually you can "lead" him around the tank with squirts of food...as he starts to associate the 'smell" of food with eating you will eventually be able to elicit a feeding/hunting response just by "swishing' food in the water column.
At that point he will hunt down and find most anything you put in the tank...