anyone got their pb off live food?

[bOOsteN aUdI]

DONT STARVE YOUR PBASS!!!!! thats is the wrogn way to get them off live food.. there immune system will drop... you will ahve dead peaocks! peacocks on prepped foood is extremely common!!!!!!! like i said if you want peacocks off live fods ASAP>>>THEN PM ME!!!!!

 

[redtailfool]

A healthy adult fish can go for a long time without eating. In the wild they do not eat every day, but whenever they get lucky enough to spot a prey and capture it.

 

[K.O.D]

These are my Monoculus

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

those arent monos my friend... those are actually ocellaris

 

[K.O.D]

Well there you go, I was sold them as Monoculus and others have said they were Mono's, am more into the rays and Aro's so I took their word.

Thank you

 

[Steve_89]

Ive had my cichla on prepared from day one when they were under 1 inch.

You can starve them boosten Just not at juvie stage.

If you are having problems getting them on prepared at juvie stage then grow them out a bit and then start the starving method.

Another method to get them off live is to throw food into the tank as if its alive and moving. The cichla may come up and hit it from the surface. I never had success with this though.

I had my cichla on pellets for a while but then found it cheaper to just feed food like whitebait, krill, beefheart and bloodworms. It also pumps them up faster.

I got my cichla on pellets by using a red coloured pellet soaked in beefheart. This is because at the time the only thing they were eating was small pieces of beefheart. The cichla thought the red pellets was beefheart and ate them. I dont know if this will work or I was just lucky

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

nice, but i still dont agree to starving .. that is the wrong way to do it if you ask me! but no one has the same 2 ideas on how to do things

 

[arapaimag]

Ive had my cichla on prepared from day one when they were under 1 inch.

You can starve them boosten Just not at juvie stage.

If you are having problems getting them on prepared at juvie stage then grow them out a bit and then start the starving method.

Another method to get them off live is to throw food into the tank as if its alive and moving. The cichla may come up and hit it from the surface. I never had success with this though.

I had my cichla on pellets for a while but then found it cheaper to just feed food like whitebait, krill, beefheart and bloodworms. It also pumps them up faster.

I got my cichla on pellets by using a red coloured pellet soaked in beefheart. This is because at the time the only thing they were eating was small pieces of beefheart. The cichla thought the red pellets was beefheart and ate them. I dont know if this will work or I was just lucky

Thanks that's a great idea soaking the pellets. I will give it a try.

 

[Steve_89]

Thanks that's a great idea soaking the pellets. I will give it a try.

Somthing else I should have added,

I soaked them until they were soft and you could push multiple pellets together to make one big one. (If needed)

I found that if I didnt make the pellets soft they wouldnt take them.

The only downside is that it can make the water quite dirty but if you are doing weekly water changes it shouldnt be too much trouble.

 

[Hasi]

Mine have been on Hikari carnivorous pellets since i got it and has never had a feeder even before i had it as a juvie.

My mono SMASHES these pellets and the only other thing i have gotten it to eat is a bit of frozen bloodworm and brineshrimp but it DEFINITELY loves the hikari pellets.

Getting another 2 from the same guy as i love knowing they have been brought up on pellets.