Dats to pellet food

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So I have three small dats in a 10g by themselves. Two are ngt and the other is a common one (forget which). At this point they are eating frozen bloodworms and brine shrimp. I have switched many fish over in the past but these are a little different for me. They never come out of hiding. The frozen food seems to disappear and they are still breathing so they are obviously eating eventually. I really want them on floating pellets. Is this feasible for three fish that always hide or should I just use sinking? Also do you guys use trainer fish with dats? If so what small ones seem to work!


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Haha welcome to datnoid keeping. Dats are one of the hardest fish to get on to pellets, let alone floating ones. You definitely want to get them on sinking first. You can go one of two ways. 1st way is to starve them until they cave in and eat pellets. This sometimes works sometimes doesn't. The most effective way i've found is to get them eating raw shrimp. Once they start eating it and get nice and fat, start stuffing pellets into the shrimp. Slowly starting putting less shrimp and more pellet and 8 out of 10 times, they'll start to eat just pellets.


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strollo22 said:
Haha welcome to datnoid keeping. Dats are one of the hardest fish to get on to pellets, let alone floating ones. You definitely want to get them on sinking first. You can go one of two ways. 1st way is to starve them until they cave in and eat pellets. This sometimes works sometimes doesn't. The most effective way i've found is to get them eating raw shrimp. Once they start eating it and get nice and fat, start stuffing pellets into the shrimp. Slowly starting putting less shrimp and more pellet and 8 out of 10 times, they'll start to eat just pellets.


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This is good advice. .
 
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oh this is going to be fun. The pieces of shrimp I am using right now aren't even stuffable! Nor am I sure they are even eating them yet.
 
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Charney said:
oh this is going to be fun. The pieces of shrimp I am using right now aren't even stuffable! Nor am I sure they are even eating them yet.
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Lol. I used the small small nls pellets for babies. At least I know they're eating them. Once they grow a bit you can upgrade the shrimp and pellet size


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strollo's technique is the same that I used for my dats. except I use sinking hikari gold instead of NLS. dats seem to like sinking better than floating. also FYI NGTs hate other NGTs, so I be careful about your two NGT getting into a fight with each other.
 
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Thanks guys. I have heard that about the ngt. Hoping the other dat helps spread the aggression. So far so good


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