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First time on Planet Catfish. Well I went to my LFS and saw a gold nugget for sale. I see them before and realy never thought of gitting but when I saw its belly concave I felt sorry for it. I bought it knowing it could die on me the first day. Well the reason for writing is that it is eating zucchini and cucumber and want to know if there is anything else I could feed it fatten it up. Oh ya I got frozen prawns but it dosen't go for them. I hope I can get it better shape. Thanks for your help.

The best thing to do is to continue to provide cucumber and zuchinni all the time so it can eat its leisure while you're trying to fatten it up; this is how I feed my bristlenose fry. You can't make it eat any faster, but you can make sure there's food at all times for it to eat when it wants to. Beware, however, as you don't want the food to start decomposing and fouling up the tank, so you don't want to leave in any particular piece of vegetable too long.

Since it has started eating already, you are already well on your way. It's when they don't start eating that you have to worry.

Thanks, I'll keep food in there at all times. Some more good news after I posted this I saw it start eating the prawn. So far so good.

hi there ,
also give around 32degrees and a well fed airstone...so the digestion will also work...high temp. are important for baryancistrus. i keep my LDA33 in up to 33°C!

also soft wood is necessary!

good luck
farid

Hi crf50hugo,
Good catch and welcome to Planet Catfish