And, since RES are primarily considered bottom feeding sunfish, at what point will they demonstrate this behaviour and eat the feed off the floor of the tank?
The RES I had in my tank this summer would eat bloodwroms off the bottom of the tank but not pellets. Eating bloodworms off the bottom of the tank noticibly slowed down once the water temps dropped below 55 degrees.
Identical to my observations as well. Not sure why, but blooworms will get scavenged, but never pellets. For a decade I had bluegill in a tank, and the pellets that sank to the bottoom would sit forever--even if the fish were starving. I don't understand this, but have observed. Odd.
Holding a redear sunfish is like running with scissors.
