Best way to get pikes to start eating pellets

[motoro ray]

I just recently got of pair of Lents from Jeff Rapps and want to know the best way to get them to start feeding.

 

[motoro ray]

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[mbeatrice]

i got my pike eating pellets by just feedin him pellets and nothing els.. sooner or later they will eat if hungry....

 

[Bderick67]

Don't feed anything but pellets, they either eat or die.

 

[HiImSean]

at first mine didnt eat for 2 weeks so i started to feed bloodworms, my bellycrawlers would take a whole cube. they eventually took pellets after feeding pellets to takemates and feeding bloodworms once a week

 

[BigPic]

Lents are tough, I just persisted with pellets, feeding frozen Krill and night crawlers just to keep em healthy. Try one of the earthworm pellets or shrimp pellets, they seem to work well with other tough to convert fish for me. My lents first took the Xtreme 9mm pellets, I think it's pretty good stuff.

Ray

 

[jgentry]

Most pike convert to pellets pretty quickly. Lents are tough so don't worry if they don't eat for a few days. Mine took almost a week but once one of them start eating pellets the other will join in quickly.

Oddly mine also started taking Xtreme 9mm pellets first as well.

 

[motoro ray]

Two weeks and still not eating anything.

 

[boredinthepeg]

Why not add a suitable fish that's already eating pellets, quite often the seeming competition acts as a trigger.

 

[BigPic]

Feed them up on what ever you need to, worms, shrimp, what ever, then try them again, I wouldn't keep them from eating for more than a week at a time. It can cause permanent damage IMHO.

Ray