The red-tailed crown fish is a carnivorous fish, so it usually uses animal feed as the main feed, and can also be fed with some artificial feed with higher protein. The more common are red worms, mealworms, water fleas and tubificidae, and can also feed fish and shrimp. Live baits are usually frozen or properly sterilized to avoid adverse health effects on fish after eating.
1. Suspend feeding: If the red tail crown fish has just been put into the fish tank, the change of the environment will stimulate it, causing it to stop feeding, and it will usually recover slowly after a week. Therefore, feeding can be suspended during this period, and after it adapts to the new environment, it can continue to feed.
2. Pay attention to changing the water: The red-tailed crownfish should live in clean and sanitary waters. If the water quality is not good, it will also affect its eating. In this case, it is necessary to change the water in time. About one third of the water should be changed every time, and the residual bait and excrement at the bottom must be discharged to avoid polluting the water body.
3. Change the feed: It is easy to cause the red tail crown fish not to eat if it is fed with one kind of feed for a long time, so it is necessary to change the feed regularly for feeding. In addition, changing the feed has another advantage, which can avoid the picky eating of fish, provide more comprehensive nutrition, and is conducive to the growth of fish.
4. Treatment of diseases: If the red-tailed crown fish feels unwell, such as illness, it will also affect the appetite. Usually this kind of situation needs to change the water first, warms up, adds the salt, if has not been effective, then carries on the medicine bath according to the condition, after usually soaks washes several times to be able to improve.
