Why is my african cichlids not eating my feeder fish?
It is not illegal. In the UK, the Animal Welfare Act 2006 prohibits deliberate and “unnecessary suffering” to animals, but contrary to widespread belief, it does not explicitly outlaw the feeding of live feeder fish to other fish. However, it does prohibit introducing two animals for the purpose of “fighting, wrestling or baiting”. [4] Nonetheless, the assumption is that a legal case could be made to class the use of feeder fish as a “fight” and though as-yet untried in the courts, the risk of such a prosecution has led many retailers and hobbyists simply to treat the use of feeder fish in the UK as illegal. But it is not illegal, as certain fish will only feed on live food, what about live river shrimp that is sold as live food, how about all the fishing trawlers that catch fish, that leave fish flapping around in their bottoms, are they to be prosecuted, no ! If such a case was brought to court, it would loose, as the ramifications would ripple out beyond the aquarium Industries. And
