Anchovy, Smelt, and Silverfish for food?

[mrrobxc]

You sound like me I like to try and not starve the fish to much but if you stop feeding it live it should come along in a few days. One thing i learned helped was feeding in the smae spot and drop it a little at a time. This will have the bigger ones splashing and bringing attention to the area eventually the runt will jsut get caught up in the frenzy and grab something you are feeding. This worked for me gettiung them onto pellets because then I would drop 1 or 2 smelt or tilapia they would eat it expecting me to drop in another piece of tilapia or smelt i would drop in massivore them expecting it to be cut fish they would jump and eat it before they realized it was a pellet. After this a few times all were pellet trained and accepted anything i fed. Some still preffered cut fish to pellet and vice versa but all would eat every feeding just one day some would gorge pellets others eat a few the next day vice versa with cut fish.

Thank you sir!

I’m doing just that at the moment. I have a feeding hole I drop the krill and frozen fish into.

Yesterday I only added floating carnivore sticks and they gulped them up and spit them out. I didn’t add anything else

I’ll do the same today. If they don’t swallow, I’ll throw in some more krill since I hate starving them. Then I’ll repeat and go longer next time around. The intermedia will eat them now. The orinos won’t. And the runt, well he only eats live. That’s going to cost him his life when his peers grow large enough to swalllw him. Wish he just “got it”.

 

[krichardson]

I asked those questions because I thought you might be able to possibly use a divider to keep the runt away from the others while you train it but that does sound possible with your tank.How about moving the little guy to another tank for now?They may not bother it now but as you have mentioned already one of them could once they get a little bigger.

 

[mrrobxc]

I may have to but catching it will be a major pain.

I gotta hurry up and get the big tank up and running so I can get it cycled and out he bigger fish in there. I’ll the keel the runt in the 280 with the Kelberi I have coming in. The kels will be four inches and I have them going into a 40 breeder until this 280 empties out.

 

[krichardson]

I may have to but catching it will be a major pain.

I gotta hurry up and get the big tank up and running so I can get it cycled and out he bigger fish in there. I’ll the keel the runt in the 280 with the Kelberi I have coming in. The kels will be four inches and I have them going into a 40 breeder until this 280 empties out.

It would be best to catch him late at night while he is "asleep".
Those kels you have coming in are really going to try your patience if they are not trained already.

 

[mrrobxc]

It would be best to catch him late at night while he is "asleep".
Those kels you have coming in are really going to try your patience if they are not trained already.

Wes said they are hitting bio gold pellets.

I have never been able to hold the patience to train kels. I’m glad these are already trained.

 

[krichardson]

Wes said they are hitting bio gold pellets.

I have never been able to hold the patience to train kels. I’m glad these are already trained.

That is great then as kels can be extremely stubborn.One of mine held out almost four months before finally giving in and eating pellets.

 

[mrrobxc]

That is great then as kels can be extremely stubborn.One of mine held out almost four months before finally giving in and eating pellets.

Yeah. Those spider kels I sold to Kyle several months back I couldn’t break and it took Kyle forever to get them onto pellets.

 

[krichardson]

Yeah. Those spider kels I sold to Kyle several months back I couldn’t break and it took Kyle forever to get them onto pellets.

That describes my trio that I got from Monster.

 

[mrrobxc]

That describes my trio that I got from Monster.

I’m surprised no one is buying the intermedia Kyledoc123 is selling. Those were the ones I had before I moved. You should get them K krichardson

 

[krichardson]

I’m surprised no one is buying the intermedia Kyledoc123 is selling. Those were the ones I had before I moved. You should get them K krichardson

I was never really impressed with inters and the xingu he has came from me.