Have 3 7-8 inch ITs, trying desperately to pellet train but failing badly. They are comm with other fish that take to the pellets with no problems. I have starved them for about a month and still they wont take the pellets. Any other suggestions?
How do you pellet train a tiger?
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Which types of pellets are you giving them? My dat takes massivore on the drop. Occasionally she will surface for the cichlid gold but since I've started the tank on massivore that's defiantly the second choice.
If your gonna stuff shrimp, I recommend carnistick pellet. Slips in the center of shrimp like a condom
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I hand feed my dat with blood worms (using other hand to chase off other fish), and after a few weeks when it was really used to hand feeding I just changed from blood worms to massivore. The dat was a bit apprehensive at first, but allways takes pellets now
Wow, a month! I can understand why you are getting desperate to do something to get them to eat.. I somehow got pretty lucky with my datnoid, and it began taking pellets relatively early without long starvation, so it's really easily now for mine to eat them with no problems without needing the pellets to appear 'live' and moving. I also dose weiss's garlic liquid solution from time to time into the tank to try and help with appetite and health. I believe it has helped.. Try garlic juice too with the pellets. Others have already suggested good ways to get them to take pellets, so yeah, try the methods and go on from there. Good luck.
For me I've been lucky. I'll usually make sure I feed them well and that they know that I am their source of food. Once they start coming up to the surface while you feed all is good . Same with the other fishes I start of with feeders move on to cut up feeders frozen feeders and I squeeze in hikari sticks into the cut up parts to let them get used to the smell of the pellets. Once you get them eating cut up feeders forawhile you're on your track.my cichlas didn't accept prawns when I first introduced it but when I threw in prawns with hikari stuck in them they gobbled it down. I suppose it will be good if you can get them to start getting use to pellets. It will take time but it works!! My fishes eat anything and everything now!!
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