Rope fish not eating after a week

I got three rope fish about a week ago, all roughly 8" long. They've gone into a 120 gallon and currently have it to themselves. It's a nice aquarium, heavily planted. I seeded the filter and it looks to be cycled. Chiller holds the tank at about 76*F. They hide mostly, even with the lights out. I've offered pellets, frozen squid and frozen bloodworms, but they haven't shown an interest in anything so far. Is there anything else I can do to try to get them eating?

 

Were they wild caught? Maybe try something live like blackworms.

 

Id try live food. They could still be acclimating to new surroundings as well.

 

Many years ago back in the dark ages when I had one mine used to love freeze dried tubifex worms that came in a cube in a small cardboard can. I would hold the cube against the glass for a short time and it would stick. He would come right over and start eating. Alison

 

I'm not sure what their origin is, I picked them up at the LFS. So I should try to get them eating live food before getting them onto frozen food? I have a guppy tank I could pull from, or I could give them some ghost shrimp.

 

I would definitely not feed them guppies. If they're not eating frozen foods, live foods would be the next thing to try. Brine shrimp, blackworms, daphnia, etc. would be a good start. You could try ghost shrimp.

 

I would try live ghost shrimp. I believe all ropefish are wc, I don't think they have been cb yet.

 

I'll get some shrimp for 'em. What's wrong with feeding guppies?

 

Ropes aren't really fish eaters.

 

And feeder fish often carry diseases.

 

I've had my own guppy tank going for a good while now. No disease there.

 

Of course they would wait until after I make a post about it to finally start eating... I came in to work this morning to find the bloodworms I gave them missing, so I figured one of them must have finally come around. I feed them with a glass bottle to contain the mess of uneaten food, so I put a bloodworm cube and a squid cube in there, and after about an hour one of them wandered over, wriggled through the mouth of the bottle and chowed down.

Hopefully the others will get the hint soon and start eating frozen food. I'll try mixing pellets in with it in the hopes that they will eat some of those and recognize it as food too, then I can get the unattractive fanta bottle out of my lovely planted tank.