Malawis n rope fish

Jun 29, 2004
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Hi there all,

I've recently setup a 360 liter tank housing 14 Malawis anf they're all doin pretty well. two of my fish are starting thier breeding rituals so hopefully they'll populate my tank a little more....guess i'll have to get a bigger tank sumtime soon....my wife is gonna kill me !!!!

more to the point about a week ago i added a rope fish to my tank and the malawis seem to be beahving themselves in the sense that they havent attempted to have my rope for lunch. The fact is the rope i too beeg for my malawis' anyway.

The concern i have is that my rope fish does'nt seem to be eating.
This is due to the malawi's consuming anything i put into the tank before the rope even gets a whiff of it. I've attempted feeding frozen bloodworm yet still no luck...again the malawis are eating it all before the rope fish even gets the smell of the bloodworm.

Any suggestion as to how to get my rope to eat .... i really do like him and dont particulalry want him starving to death

your help is much appreciated
 

wayne

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This is a tough one, but I'd try target feeding fairly large tablets into whever it's hiding. You can try putting in whole slabs of bloodworms, but you'll always have problems keeping fod from hungry mbuna and be at risk of bunging them up.