Perhaps the trick is to start them out young, I don't know, but I'm happy to report my new 3" baby NTT is eating pellets after less than 2 days in his new home (8' Aro tank). At the LFS he had eaten blood worms only.
I had first dropped some pellets (Hikari Sinking Carnivore) behind the sponge filter he likes to hide behind when I open the tank lid.
I didn't see him eat the pellets but 30 min. later I checked and they were gone (and the Flagtail doesn't go back there). I didn't get that on video but the next day (yesterday) I put out more HSC around the filter and it wasn't too long before he started munching away.
Except for hiding when I open the lids -- which he's getting better about every day; any other time he's usually cruising around the tank, 'hunting' detritus worms, which I've seen him feeding on sometimes since put in the tank -- he's otherwise been very stable, no coloring down or blackening whatsoever.
Of course there's always things like possibility of disease/parasites, SDS or in his case SADS (Sudden Arowana Death Syndrome: my Aro is mostly tolerating him but doesn't seem to overly like him much (he likes swimming around her, cheeky b*stard as you can see in another video I just made), and sometimes she gets kinda pissed off and tries to give him a good whack when she wants some space.
Overall I feel pretty lucky with this little guy so far, not bad for a $15 find -- though pity the muddled up tail markings
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I had first dropped some pellets (Hikari Sinking Carnivore) behind the sponge filter he likes to hide behind when I open the tank lid.
I didn't see him eat the pellets but 30 min. later I checked and they were gone (and the Flagtail doesn't go back there). I didn't get that on video but the next day (yesterday) I put out more HSC around the filter and it wasn't too long before he started munching away.
Except for hiding when I open the lids -- which he's getting better about every day; any other time he's usually cruising around the tank, 'hunting' detritus worms, which I've seen him feeding on sometimes since put in the tank -- he's otherwise been very stable, no coloring down or blackening whatsoever.
Of course there's always things like possibility of disease/parasites, SDS or in his case SADS (Sudden Arowana Death Syndrome: my Aro is mostly tolerating him but doesn't seem to overly like him much (he likes swimming around her, cheeky b*stard as you can see in another video I just made), and sometimes she gets kinda pissed off and tries to give him a good whack when she wants some space.
Overall I feel pretty lucky with this little guy so far, not bad for a $15 find -- though pity the muddled up tail markings
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