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I just picked up a small shoal of harlies for my 10g on Saturday nite. I have not seen them eat since I brought them home. I've seen them take a brief sniff at food and that's about it.

I have fed flakes, cichlid pellets, sinking shrimp pellets, algae wafers, bloodworms, krill, all to no avail

My tank is cycled, good water params, mid 70's temp 8.0 pH.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have even changed the flow rate on my filter for more or less current.

Thanks!

An update is in order here, perhaps?
A lot of times it just takes some time for fish to get accustomed to the tank before they are ready to eat. Some are just shy eaters, although harlies are not usually classified as such.
Heck, I've had fish that I never saw eat, but stayed plump and otherwise happy, so I figured that they must have been eating something!
Live food is always a great way to coax reluctant feeders to take a nibble. Almost all LFSs offer live bloodworms, which is, by the way, not sufficient as a staple, but acceptable for short periods of time. Sometimes they sell live brine shrimp as well.


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I think scott acidentally posted this twice alaska. if you look a little farther down the list of topics you should see it again with some replys. i believe he last posted that it looked like they were now attempting to eat.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

yea, I had posted this in the Cyprinid... Whoops, a little duplication never hurt anyone.

For the record, they are feeding very nicely now. I am wondering, this "aggressive feeding" has come about quite recently, maybe as a result of turning up the temp as I treat a little Ich in the tank. Perhaps I had been keeping them a little too cool. I usually keep the tank in the low-mid 70's F. It's now in the low 80's F while I treat for Ich.

Well, that's certainly possible. Although I would tend to doubt it. Mid seventies is perfectly fine for harlies, although they will do fine in the low 80s as well. Remember that increasing the temperature will speed up their metabolism a little, which may also account for more aggressive feeding.

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