Yeah lo, RTC can hand feed - mine will grab market prawns direct from my hand. Also eats blood worms - refuses to eat pellets.

ya the RTC onli want to eat smelly stuffs.
Always have to wait till he comes to the surface only got chance to feed it.
Because last time still have some talapias in the pond which always grab the stuffs before the RTC grabs it..
nowdays a bit busy, dont have time to really feed it to it's mouth.. looks like it has to starve a bit.

5ft W x 12 ft length X 3 Ft Depth.

Ok thats big. Haha

In time u can teach d rtc to eat pellets. Their sense of smell is astounding, so good quality pellets preferred la if u wanna teach it to eat them.

My RTC currently eat pellets too, but not all d time la. I enjoy more seeing them eating feeder fishes.

I just fed them some boiled chicken meat today. Looks like he is full for a few days. Lol, the thing with pellet, they float n all the top feeders glup them up very fast. The RTC is no where to be seen when I am feeding pellets... Same for my alligator gar..

Because last time when I am less busy, I am always feeding them meat those left overs from my meal or from boiling soap.(Of course without the sauce and oil)
Think they are now meat eaters. The RTC really seem very blind. Throw food in front also cannot see, but their sense of smell is great. Always come with i feed smelly meat stuffs.

Yea same with mine. Eyesight poor. Wait, ur gar eats pellets ?

Ya my 1 x 6-8inch Alligator Gar and 2 x 5 Inch spotter Gars are eating pellets. They didnt like pellets at first but now, they do take the round pellets. Of course they prefer meat and live food. The spotted gar do have some problem eating pellets because they have small mouth. hard to aim small round pellets correctly. But the alligator gar, i just throw a bunch of pellet, he open his mouth n bite left one time, right one time, then left n then right.. just keep eating like that. haha

Yea the RTC eyesight really bad.. put food near him, he cant even see it... so speechless. I actually thought my pond UV light that kills algae made him a bit blind when he somehow end up in the filter tank.. Good to hear that he is actually quite blind and not caused by me.. lol

Wow ur lucky ur gars are eating pellets. I have to go buy LFS everytime to buy FF. Its like my 2nd home edi lol.

hi guys, would like to know. i have a pond of koi fish. can i introduce soon hock / patin into it?

thanks

can no problem one...make sure your koi bigger than the soon hock

hi, but since soon hock so slow, if i feed pallets sure the koi all eat finish

what can i do about it? any ideas how ppl do it?

thanks bro!

Maybe u can try feeding the soon hock small feeder fishes. If pellets, the koi will certainly finish them first.

I had soon hock 2 pieces in a pond with many super eaters. The soon hock ends up shrink in size by 2cm after a while. N now don't even see them anywhere already... My pond got places to hide, so it's very very hard to feed them.. Sigh.
N they don't move much n if u have a pond with places to hide, they will be in there hiding... So, in my case, I won't even bother keeping them again.

Thats because they are naturally ambush predators, they just wait. Like antzz suggested, try feeder fishes. My suggestion would be feed the koi's with pellets first, then put in the feeders. Higher chance for the feeders to survive till ur goby gets a chance to eat them.

Finally genie emerges from nowhere with brilliant shits shots.

Jangan marah genie.. just kidding

Wah snake in an aquarium XD

Nice BRO! BRO!

Aww, I noticed my Alligator Gar is missing from my pond.. And I saw a monitor lizard roaming around near my pond... Sigh I have reason to believe my Gar may be in heaven already...