This guy is about 6-7 inches.... eating market shrimp straight from my hand, but no reaction to pellets, cant trick it either. If i fill the shrimp with pellets it will swallow the whole thing, eat the shrimp than spit out the pellet. I have been starving him, no luck. I wanted to ask how other NTT owners have trained there dats to eat pellets. thanks guys/gals.
Any luck in converting NTT datnoids to pellets?
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Just starve it, be patient. Ive starve my 4" dats for 1 month to get them to take pellets,
Massivore to be exact
Massivore to be exact
Ade;5118827; said:
2 weeks. doesnt even notice the pellets. rushes to the top of the tank to look at my fingers for shrimp but when he sees pellets he runs big. When i have shrimp in my hand he literally jumps out of the water to grab the food from my fingers
Some are super fussy and just won't break, unless u starve to the point of waifer thin, even then it's not guaranteed, but most will crack in 6 weeks (can tale that long for a fat 6 inch plus tiger)
Currently I have 6 NTT. All I did was marinate pellets with prawn juices (squeeze defrosted prawns so all juice runs into pot with pellets) then add bloodworms. Mix and fridge for 30 minutes.then dump .
Just keep doing this daily.
2 NTT onto dry pellets in 2 weeks.
The other 4 are about 3-4 inch.after 3 weeks, 2 are on marinated pellets. The other 2 just picking at bloodworm. I reckon 4 more weeks of above method should do it.
Sometimes I worry abit cause they don't eat, so I just Chuck a small bit of chopped
prawn watch them eat then back to marinate. Just remember a healthy tiger can go 4-6 weeks with no food ... No probs....
Eat ONLY pellets or die method, is ok to do if tiger is 4 Inch or bigger and already quite fat.
Currently I have 6 NTT. All I did was marinate pellets with prawn juices (squeeze defrosted prawns so all juice runs into pot with pellets) then add bloodworms. Mix and fridge for 30 minutes.then dump .
Just keep doing this daily.
2 NTT onto dry pellets in 2 weeks.
The other 4 are about 3-4 inch.after 3 weeks, 2 are on marinated pellets. The other 2 just picking at bloodworm. I reckon 4 more weeks of above method should do it.
Sometimes I worry abit cause they don't eat, so I just Chuck a small bit of chopped
prawn watch them eat then back to marinate. Just remember a healthy tiger can go 4-6 weeks with no food ... No probs....
Eat ONLY pellets or die method, is ok to do if tiger is 4 Inch or bigger and already quite fat.
Forgot to say, after squeezing prawn juice, chuck prawns away.
Tigers are weird fish.... I had a 14 inch Indo that I got at 5 inch. He only
Ate prawns and lance fish. I often gave up trying to convert him after 5-6 weeks..... Then when I decided to try and starve again, it too k 2 weeks eat or die, then he started hammering massivore like e had been eating pellets all his life.... Explain that!
Tigers are weird fish.... I had a 14 inch Indo that I got at 5 inch. He only
Ate prawns and lance fish. I often gave up trying to convert him after 5-6 weeks..... Then when I decided to try and starve again, it too k 2 weeks eat or die, then he started hammering massivore like e had been eating pellets all his life.... Explain that!
Arowana718;5124680; said:
Ade's method is slowly working, it took pellets soaked with shrimp juice. Eats only half though, but at least it does it half and is starting to know its food. Work in progress, will continue. Give his pellets soak method a try. I'm only seeing positive effects as of now, will update. THANKS ADE!