My redfin perch.. few photos...

[sammy]

Heres a few photos of my 2 redfin perch, they are only new to tank life so they are still a little weary of whats going on outside the tank, i can never seem to be there when they eat the feeder fish i feed them.... gotta try and ween them onto bloodworm and frozen foods...

any advice is always appriciated...

-Sammy

[cichlidboy]

well, at least you know they are feeding.
where did you get them from and when?
I'm assuming it's only been less than a month.
as long as they are feeding, it's fine.
it will take a while before they will go onto pellets and frozen foods.
heres what i did with my barra (who wouldn't eat anything but feeders)

started out with feeders obviously.
after a week or two i started trying to give him semi dead feeders.
he still got to them.
then i moved onto feeders with their bellies open full of pellets.
he got to them too. (i know, it sounds brutal.)
then one day the pellets fell out of one of the feeders and he checked out the pellets on the bottom of the tank for a while before recognising the smell
and vualah! he started taking pellets.
this took almost two months.

its brutal, but worth it.
just takes time.
but you can try less brutal ways, just make sure it's a gradual change.

[sammy]

right now they are both on feeders but have both started eating small cuts of fish flesh which i have a steady and cheap supply of, im going to start putting pellets into them now and hopefully that change will start them onto pellets..

10 feeder fish only lasted just over a minute.. and was awesome to watch...

both the redfin get pretty freaked out when i have to do a water change tho... hopefully after a while they will just chill out...

also do you think i should use a heater in the water to heat it slightly?

[cichlidboy]

yeah, if you can, bring it up to at least 20
that way, they have a constant and steady metabolic rate.
higher it is, more oxygen and food they need.