Re: NANFA-L-- Sunfish not feeding

EELReprah at aol.com
Sun, 23 Oct 2005 09:29:08 EDT

In a message dated 10/19/05 10:09:03 PM, Snailcollector14 at cs.com writes:

<< I have what I believe to be an off-color green sunfish or hybrid. It is
about
5" long. Recently, it has stopped eating the dried tubifex I had been feeding
it. It will eat worms, but they are scarce now that cold weather has arrived.
I got some frozen silversides to feed it, but it refuses these as well. Any
ideas why it does this? The nitrate is fine. >>

I have had healthy sunfish that would eat anything but freeze dried or frozen
foods. Try some good trout pellets or good tropical flakes. It sometimes
takes them a while to learn n to eat them.

Lee Harper
Media, PA
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