Large adult Pirate Perch, in my short experience, will not eat prepared foods in captivity. I haven't tried live foods.
John
>
> From: Peter Unmack <peter.lists at>
> Date: 2005/08/24 Wed PM 02:32:47 EDT
> To: nanfa-l <nanfa-l-in-nanfa.org>
> Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Collecting
>
> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Bill Flowers wrote:
>
> > Something else i have noticed is that the younger fish that i brought
> > back are adapting better and already eating foods that I am giving
> > them.
>
> I've noticed this with Campostoma a little bit, often if we bring back big
> fish they just never eat, but smaller year old fish do just fine. Had
> some Cyprinella whipplei once that were like that too, the great big ones
> just never ate, but medium sized ones were fine. Have other folks
> observed this-in-all?
>
> Cheers
> Peter Unmack
> Canadian River, Oklahoma
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