Helping telescope eyes eat

[Mikey V]

So i just added a beee-utiful "panda" moor to my two lionheads and until he learns where to expect the food to come from, I'm having trouble making sure he gets his fair share of food. The lionheads are a bit larger than he is, have better eyesight, and they know where to expect me to drop the food into the tank. Also, because the new moor is still shy around me, it makes it even more difficult for him to get to the food before the fatty lionheads eat it all.

I've had some luck with distracting the lionheads, but I'm wondering if anybody has any better methods.:youtellme:

[suphi]

You can get a floating plastic basket from Walmart and feed him in there until he is used to the new environment while making sure that he gets enough to eat in the mean time.

Try frozen blood worms if you want to handfeed these guys. I haven't had any fish that could resist the taste of blood worms, they all come right up to my hand no matter how shy they are.

[SeaWitch]

It is a bit of a pain, but when my fantail was hogging all the food and my demekin was hardly getting any, I used a divider at feeding times. This way, my demekin got to eat at her own pace and got enough food.

[foreverblue127]

Will he swim to the top or does he stay away? My moor comes up to the top and I literally sprinkle food into his mouth. Only after I put food into the opposite corner of the tank for my lionhead. The divider sounds like a good idea.

[Amy S]

While all I have in my tanks are telescopes (OK, maybe ONE ryukin) I often have at least one very young fish that needs to eat more/ more often. I take a long stick (dowl) and break it so that there is a split or I put a straw over it in which there is a slit. Into this slit I put pieces of eathworm. I start with small pieces and work up to large ones that take them 10 minutes to finish.The fish learn within a day or two to grab it when it is in front of them. This way I can feed young fish large pieces of high protein food several times a day.
Wouldnt work for a large operation, for just one or two tanks-it's great.

[Ranchufan16]

or you could just put food in different parts of the tank....that might help too