indo datnoid dry food

[Alexandboi]

Gey them eating frozen bloodworms. Get a syringe. Soak some pellets in frozen krill/bloodworm juice or any wet food. Wait until pellets are soft. Put wet pellets through syringe and push it out. They'll be "worm" shape. Feed that to the datnoid. Do it for a few days. Then gradually make the pellet a little more dry and less worm shape. It should eventually take the dry pellets without any preparation.

I've never had a datnoid that I couldn't break onto taking pellets. Have converted plenty of 1 inch dats. Easier from an earlier age. Just depends how determined you are.

 

[cockroach]

I would not try. Dats are particularly difficult eaters, and are all wild caught.

You are lucky that they accept raw food. I only feed mine with live food.

Shrimp - river shrimp - is good for dats, but should not be fed exclusively. It is high in thiaminase. Alternate with other river fish, especially tilapia, which is low in thiaminase.

You have got three small dats, understand that this is a commitment. They are not easy fish.

Post some pictures!

Building on this. I tried for months to convert my dat away from non-living foods like live fish and shrimp. Never even looked at anything I threw in.
The best I could do was gut load its feeder fish with high quality foods.

For some of my other large fish when I had them. There were a few that only ate ala carte fish fillets and raw shrimp. To help them, I simple dissolved small amounts of fish vitamins in water and used an injection to inject the vitamins into the shrimp meat and fed it. Some people suggested soaking the food first in the vitamin water but some picky fish didn't like it.

 

[rarl90]

Hi i am going through the same process at the moment, Training datnoid to feed pallets.
I am grinding shrimps and hikari chichlid gold pallets together, make it small pieces and put in in the freezer and feed time to time.
that way. he will get the taste of pallets.

 

[HarleyK]

FWIW: My Indo ate Massivore.

 

[Midwater]

FWIW: My Indo ate Massivore.

"ate" and not "eat"

What happened to them?

 

[HarleyK]

"ate" and not "eat"

What happened to them?

Sold

 

[JsTO97]

Sold

My 3 dats eat Hikari sinking pellets. You’ll have to “starve them” for a few days, but start with soaking them in shrimp Juice. If they bite it and then don’t eat, just wait and do again the next day. If they are Hungary, they will strike at it. And once you train them, don’t give them any shrimp for at least 4 weeks. This will get them to forget shrimp and assume pellets are the only food source. After that, treat them no more than once week with shrimp, and even less live food. ( maybe once a month).

 

[SeaHorseRanch]

Over 10 years ago I trained my NTT datnoid to take massivore pellets. Wrapped it in some pieces of prawn and spot fed him in the same spot for a couple of weeks. He would come up to the surface to grab food and it tricked him to eat some pellets. He spit it out a couple of times, but learned to accept the pellets.