Feed them frozen silverside trust me they will love u for it no disease and cheaper than feeders IMO
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jep true frozensilversides are great, but sorry guys one whole month without feeding just because you want him to eat other stuff is too long dude you should have thought of that when buying a predatoryfish that is known to NEED live food when young, i trained mine from the start and yes i also starved them for 3 days per setting then i fed again for 3 days then again 3 days nothing thats acceptable starving, but a whole month that not good, feed them fast with some live food ,theyll come around there just not ready for it yet,keep the other 2 also on you non live diet but its enevedeable that they will also get the feeders but its the best you can do, theyll come around i tell you but for now feed them
Agreed, try the silversides, I weened my native yellow perch off feeders onto silversides and they love em! Other options would be earthworms/nightcrawlers, all my fish love em, its really fun to watch the baby cichla and a polypterus play tug of war with a worm. 
Other options would be cut pieces of fish fillets. Try different shape cuts, strips or cubes or such. I've found my fish usually like strips, but I havn't actually tried the cichlas on fillets yet...
Good luck!
Other options would be cut pieces of fish fillets. Try different shape cuts, strips or cubes or such. I've found my fish usually like strips, but I havn't actually tried the cichlas on fillets yet...Good luck!
my pbass were starved for that long but I also had a teacher fish with them. I saw some post on the forum that no fish is ignorant enough to starve them self to death. Try giving them a couple of silversides so atleast they don't eat live but frozen for now.
very good advice added to the thread-I failed to mention I also use frozen silversides that I thaw in warm water and throw them in with a splash in between the live food.Like I said,2 are okay with the non live diet and 1 is still not into it yet but I do have them in a tank full of plenty of "teachers"-I actually never thought of that until mentioned here.My other fish of course battle and go into frenzy for krill/pelets/silversides etc. so maybe that is the ticket to why the bass have been following suit???sounds very reasonable.Keep us updated I really hope you will get lucky soon.I hate the nasty feeders and quarantining them and medicating the batches gets very expensive just to come up with no sick feeders for my prize fish.
silverdragon;2388380; said:
i would do this...
there are 7 smaller ones right?
only 4 bigger guys?
i would personally take the risk.
dont think a bigger bass will take out a smaller bass that it cant eat.
So this is what I'm going to do...First, go get some frozen silversides and if that does not do the trick then I'll take three of the bigger ones from the smaller batch and add it into the other tank. Will keep you guys posted.
Outside of cost feeders really arent that bad if you prep them right. Ive seen lots of fish raised to enormous sizes on only live. The key is in the quarantine. I keep lots of feeders on hand, but I treat them all is if they have ich 100% of the time. I keep my feeder tank at 87 degrees and salted, and 25% water change weekly. I also let the tank sit for a week after adding a new batch to make sure all the sick ones weed themselves out and that the ich and things have time to go away. Ontop of that I keep them fat on color enhancing flake food. And just before they meet their demise I gut load the hell out of them. Another key to live food is variety. Crayfish, goldfish, rosies, live bearers, ghost shrimp, crickets, earthowrms etc. If it moves and can fit in their mouth, it will get eaten!
Pellets are the ultimate food source but I wouldnt be too hasty to get off of live, it also has benefits. Live food is 100% of their diet in the wild.
Pellets are the ultimate food source but I wouldnt be too hasty to get off of live, it also has benefits. Live food is 100% of their diet in the wild.
