What to feed Hagfish
- Thread starter MoNsTeR FiS
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OP, make sure you have a very mature, soft substrate such as sand or dirt for it to sift through to feed, it wont eat anything else until it's an adult.
You have a lamprey, not a hag fish. From it's size I would guess it is a brook lamprey which do not feed in their adult form... If it is a regular lamprey it needs a live fish to suck blood from.
What do you mean by "regular lamprey"? To my knowledge sea lampreys are the only parasitic ones and the rest are filter or substrate feeders. I could be wrong, that's just what I thought.
There are parasitic freshwater lampreys, the great lakes are full of them, there are 38 known species and all of the ones that feed as adults are parasitic feed on the body fluids of their host. The non parasitic lampreys do not feed as adults only the young which live buried in mud and resemble worms and feed via filter feeding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey
If it is a sea lamprey, it is still a juvenile. They live in freshwater in a soft substrate and feed on tiny food items until they are a few years old. At around 3 years of age, they begin the transformation to the adult stage and migrate to the sea where they feed on fish fluids. Returning to freshwater a few years later as mature adults to spawn and then die. The adults do not feed when they return.
