feeding

[pufferking]

anyone have any tricks for getting fish nthat will only take live, take frozen?

[piranha45]

Just plain starving them for a few weeks will work with most fish.

[buddah101]

yup, that sounds cruel but it works wonderfully! Alot of people have alot of good tricks. Let's hope they all chime in.

[beblondie]

I have 2 one sounds silly but it worked for meget a fake plant and place the food in it tail poking out this works best by the filter return the current makes it move slightly
the second a feeding stick-Anne

[pufferking]

when ever i get a new puffer starving it usually works but i just got another palembang puffer and i have starved him for a good while. i have offered him krill everyday but he seems hooked on fish. krill are much better for him. i have gotten him to take a few but it was only 1 day then he wouldnt eat them i threw fish in and he ate them.

[piranha45]

when ever i get a new puffer starving it usually works but i just got another palembang puffer and i have starved him for a good while. i have offered him krill everyday but he seems hooked on fish. krill are much better for him. i have gotten him to take a few but it was only 1 day then he wouldnt eat them i threw fish in and he ate them.
quit feeding him fish. You blew whatever progress you were making with him, when you gave him those last fish

[sleepyflight]

Pikes are the only thing that have made me nervous as far as how long those little tirds will go without food. The sticks worked good to transition them after about 3 weeks of not eating...long time. Other than that most stuff has started taking pellet or whatever after a week max. I agree, you just have to grin and bear it and make them take what they get.

[pufferking]

i had to feed him the fish he went way to long without eating and started to get skinny

[rayman45]

my sh wont touch anything but LIVE FISH

wont go near dead fish

[piranha45]

he would if you starved him for a month or two.

[rayman45]

he would if you starved him for a month or two.

if i did
he would break threw the tank and eat something walking by the tank

about a week after 75 gold fish. he goes ****ing crazy
charging the glass
attacking the mag-float
i saw him once grabbing the peice of drift wood and chewing it

[shovelnose]

Garlic, they're not supposed to be able to resist it.

[iheartfishies]

and it smells like ass.

I have to use it to feed s/w fishies.

I smelled like a dirty guniea.

[Daddyo72]

First get them really really hungry. Take the live food and throw one in. They should hit it immediately. Do that with the next or so and then throw in a piece of freeze dried krill then maybe a feeder. Continue doing this, feeding less and less live. They will eventually take prepped foods. Worked like a charm with mine. Never failed.

[shovelnose]

and it smells like ass.

I have to use it to feed s/w fishies.

I smelled like a dirty guniea.

easy now some of us dirty gunieas might take offense to that