In my experience Kelberi have never followed the hive mind style of once ones eating pellets, they all eat them. Kelberi are incredibly stubborn for some reason and the only way Ive ever got any of them [4 in total] over 4" to eat anything dead has been very long starvations with a few live grass shrimp every week or two. As for food, hikari carni sticks are fine but I highly highly recommend Omega One Super Cichlid Color. They really help boost color and are also pretty high in protein. They arent as high as massivore, but they trade about 7% protein for a bunch of immunity and health boosting ingredients and you can pretty much get protein anywhere to mix in. Its also like 1/3rd the price of massivore who I feel is a bit greedy in their pricings.I’m not all the way home... 4/8 on the pellets...
Got a group of 5 (2 solid pellet eaters,1 still learning, 2 hold outs) and group of 3 ( 1-2 were pretty solid pellet eaters, 1 hold out) I had them eating sinking Massivore as I did not want them to compete with future arow for food... thinking that mistake, floating carni sticks seem better...
Gonna add 2 silver dollars from another tank to each group as folks have said this may be helpful? Or just stick with patience and the monkey see, monkey do approach?
Thanks for the tip, I think I have that... been feeding it around to the smaller fish...In my experience Kelberi have never followed the hive mind style of once ones eating pellets, they all eat them. Kelberi are incredibly stubborn for some reason and the only way Ive ever got any of them [4 in total] over 4" to eat anything dead has been very long starvations with a few live grass shrimp every week or two. As for food, hikari carni sticks are fine but I highly highly recommend Omega One Super Cichlid Color. They really help boost color and are also pretty high in protein. They arent as high as massivore, but they trade about 7% protein for a bunch of immunity and health boosting ingredients and you can pretty much get protein anywhere to mix in. Its also like 1/3rd the price of massivore who I feel is a bit greedy in their pricings.
They did, thanks for the heads up!Looking good, that Tem/Azul is a Orino.. did he come from Predatory fins?