HannahJ
Aquarium Advice Activist
My black ghost knife is driving me crazy! I'd been keeping him on a stable diet of frozen bloodworms, freeze-dried bloodworms, and sinking carnivore and bottom feeder wafers, all of which he consumed readily. Then I decided he might like to try some new foods.
How about some frozen glassworms? Might make a nice change from bloodworms.
"Nope," he says.
Well, maybe some frozen beef heart? Some growth might be good, he is about to move into a 58 gallon tank.
"Nuh-uh."
Well, maybe frozen tubifex worms will do the trick.
"No thanks."
Frozen daphnia? Frozen brine shrimp? Dried baby shrimp? Dried plankton? Dried crickets?
"No, no, no, no, and no."
This morning was the last straw. I'd decided to try the glassworms again, since it seemed like he had at least nibbled on them before, and I even bypassed feeding him night before last to get him suitably hungry. And yet, this morning when I woke up, there were uneaten worms all over the tank and I had to vacuum the tank first thing, so that the ammonia wouldn't go through the roof. Let me tell you, a tank full of worms is hard to clean up.
So anyways, now I have a freezer and a cabinet full of foods my black ghost knife doesn't want to eat, and he has resisted every attempt to bring variety into his diet. I'm almost afraid to follow through with my plan to eventually start breeding feeder white clouds and ghost shrimp, because I'm sure he's going to refuse those, too, and I'm going to have a bunch of fish I don't really want on my hands. Seriously, what's a girl to do?
How about some frozen glassworms? Might make a nice change from bloodworms.
"Nope," he says.
Well, maybe some frozen beef heart? Some growth might be good, he is about to move into a 58 gallon tank.
"Nuh-uh."
Well, maybe frozen tubifex worms will do the trick.
"No thanks."
Frozen daphnia? Frozen brine shrimp? Dried baby shrimp? Dried plankton? Dried crickets?
"No, no, no, no, and no."
This morning was the last straw. I'd decided to try the glassworms again, since it seemed like he had at least nibbled on them before, and I even bypassed feeding him night before last to get him suitably hungry. And yet, this morning when I woke up, there were uneaten worms all over the tank and I had to vacuum the tank first thing, so that the ammonia wouldn't go through the roof. Let me tell you, a tank full of worms is hard to clean up.
So anyways, now I have a freezer and a cabinet full of foods my black ghost knife doesn't want to eat, and he has resisted every attempt to bring variety into his diet. I'm almost afraid to follow through with my plan to eventually start breeding feeder white clouds and ghost shrimp, because I'm sure he's going to refuse those, too, and I'm going to have a bunch of fish I don't really want on my hands. Seriously, what's a girl to do?
At least I know he's getting enough nutritional variety what with the sinking pellets he eats. And he actually does eat those! 
