hey guys, quick question i have is how often should i feed my peacock, i got him yesterday, seems like he's still getting used to the tank. he keeps looking at me from his burrow/cave. kinda as if he's waiting for me to feed him. i'll get pics up as soon as i get the digi back. THANKS IN ADVANCE GUYS~!
quick peacock Q
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Gonodactylus
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Generally, I think it is best to start off slowly feeding every other day and then only a stomach size piece of food. For a 5 inch O.s, that would be a piece about the size of a marble. THis way you can be sure that the animal consumes the food and doesn't bury it. Also, if it is hungrey, it is more likely to interact with the feeding stick and get used to you feeding it. That leads to better interaction with the animal. Once it starts responding to your presence and comes to the front of the tank, you can up the feeding rate with more confidence that the food is going into you stomatopod and not into the substrate.
Roy
Roy
Gonodactylus
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Both. There is some caching of food, but often if it is a large piece, it will rot before it is consumed.
Molt skins are usually buried and later eating.
Roy
Molt skins are usually buried and later eating.
Roy
I just leave snails and hermits in my tanks.
My G. Viridis seems to eat a snail every 2 or 3 days, with me offering a small piece of shrimp/silverside about 3 times a week, always in smaller pieces. Of course, I have a positively huge bed of worms to eat leftovers...
The G, Platysoma eats sparingly, but i just saw that he is holed up tight, so he might be molting... He munches hermits, has eaten one snail (with 3 or 4 more in there). He also ate silverside, though he initially pushed it away. I pushed it back, with a 'that's what there is for dinner' attitude, and the reluctant brat ate about half of it.
My G. Teratensis is a voracious eater. She has decimated something like 10 snails, a fiddler crab and several servings of silverside since i bought her a week ago today. makes me wonder if the LFS guys fed her much at all. She is pretty big, and a girl's gotta eat and all...
-Ron
My G. Viridis seems to eat a snail every 2 or 3 days, with me offering a small piece of shrimp/silverside about 3 times a week, always in smaller pieces. Of course, I have a positively huge bed of worms to eat leftovers...
The G, Platysoma eats sparingly, but i just saw that he is holed up tight, so he might be molting... He munches hermits, has eaten one snail (with 3 or 4 more in there). He also ate silverside, though he initially pushed it away. I pushed it back, with a 'that's what there is for dinner' attitude, and the reluctant brat ate about half of it.
My G. Teratensis is a voracious eater. She has decimated something like 10 snails, a fiddler crab and several servings of silverside since i bought her a week ago today. makes me wonder if the LFS guys fed her much at all. She is pretty big, and a girl's gotta eat and all...
-Ron
