tips to get my angel to eat guppies?

dereks

dereks

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Im trying to get my angelfish to eat guppies, he's in there with a leaf fish thats spoiled on them. I'm tired of adding two different kinds of food, I'd like to be able to throw a dozen guppies in there and forget about them for a few days. The angel doesn't want to eat them, anything I can do to make him more aggressive?

30 gal
1 angel - young
1 leaf fish
 
I don't think you should be feeding your angel guppies. I have heard of angels eating guppy fry and sometimes a large angel going after a small male guppy, but I can't imagine a young angel eating a full grown guppy. You should not be feeding an exclusive diet of feeder fish - they lack many of the necessary nutrients from pellets and flake food. Besides, angelfish need some vegetable matter in their diet, they can't eat live food alone. Where are you getting the feeder fish? If they are from your LFS (As opposed to guppies you have raised at home) there is a very, very good chance you will be introducing disease and parasites into your tank from them.
 
When I put a few guppies in there they breed very easily so there are tiny guppies in there for him also (easily small enough for the angel) I shouldn't have to buy very many and the store I do buy from is VERY good about caring for them, (specialize in fish, not just a pet store on the corner with tanks in the back) I've checked their water before. How about if I threw some frozen food in there twice a month for the nutrition he needs?
 
dereks said:
How about if I threw some frozen food in there twice a month for the nutrition he needs?
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You need to give him a variety of food daily, not just throw in some frozen food twice a month. I feed mine cichlid pellets, flake, frozen and freeze dried blood worms, shrimp pellets, a couple of other pellet type foods (that sink slowly) and they also eat algae wafers that I drop in for my cories, along with pecking at anything that lands on the bottom of the tank.

Not tried mine on live food yet, so I can't help with that, but it might just take a while for your angel to recognize the guppies as food.
 
The angel and leaf fish were in the aquarium together at the fish store, I've had them in my tank together for a few months. The leaf fish doesn't move around a lot and stays in the plants, I don't think the angel even notices him. I'm real picky about my fish's behavior, if one shows the slightest bit of aggression I pull him, they've been ok for a few months now.
 
kamikaze_fish said:
That sounds good. I'd love to have a leaf fish but am concerned with how aggressive they can be.
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He ignores fish that are too small for him to eat. Very inactive, nobody knows he's there until I point him out and he has even disappeared for a few days.
 
maybe your angelfish is a vegetarian? lol
 
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