supplementing vitamin B1

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I have an IT that I have been trying to pellet train, using a large variety of brands, on to pellets for 3 weeks now. I tried stuffing the shrimp early on, but he would get the pellets out. At first he would take them and spit them out. Now they are totally ignored. The only things he would eat were FD krill and market prawns. My concern with those 2 foods is the thiasimine depleting the B1 in the fish over time. I have been researching with no success supplementing the B1 by soaking the krill in a liquid form. Will this remedy the problem? I would have thought he would have eaten something by now. Thanks
 
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Not sure about the supplementation but are there any other fish in the tank that your indo can learn from?


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VERY lightly stocked. All eat pellets with gusto. 240 with Pacu, Endli Poly, 2 angels and a pleco. Getting a flagtail and a distochodis later in the week. Totals less then 2 feet of fish if laid end to end currently. IT is about 6" and had him for 4 months, got him from a guy who only fed it shrimp for over a year.
 
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Soaking the shrimp could work,it certainly shouldn't hurt.In time the dat should pick up on the pellets from the others.


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If he spits the pellets out with the shrimp, try talapia fillet pellet stuffed. My indos prefered the talapia over shrimp. Just an idea. Gd luck Rodger
 
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JayC74 said:
If he spits the pellets out with the shrimp, try talapia fillet pellet stuffed. My indos prefered the talapia over shrimp. Just an idea. Gd luck Rodger
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it took my IT approx 8 weeks to accept pellets

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Danno said:
it took my IT approx 8 weeks to accept pellets

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Did you starve him that long?
 
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well i was mixing a few sinking hikari cichlid gold pellets with frozen cubes of bloodworm for ages, but it wasn't taking them, so it must have survived off just the bloodworm. i eventually mixed loads of pellets with the bloodworm and it made a thick lumpy paste, i used to just scrape this into the tank and the IT must have been that hungry it smashed into the paste and got a mouthfull of mostly pellets, and it kind of went from there really. i then started feeding sinking carnivore pellets and boy it hoovers them up like nothing ive ever seen. it has taken hikari floating food sticks today for the first time also.

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