Chinese Perch and live food

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As some of you already know, rallysman and I recently purchased a Chinese Perch. He/She is about 17 inches long. The only thing it has been fed is live food. I don't think it's healthy for it to eat feeders all the time but it ignores anything that isn't live. I've tried starving it by only putting in non live foods and I've tried soaking the food in garlic. No go. Any other ideas? I'd really like to give it a variety. :confused:
 
Have you guys tried commercial shrimps? Like the ones you buy at your grocery store...I give those to all my fish and they really like them. I just chop them up a bit. Never know might like it...
 
Weird?? His way to fussy for me!! I guess his a newbie in the tank?
 
I started feeding my chuatsi every other day. For several feedings in a row, it was given gut-loaded shiners. The shiners are dropped in one at a time and always in the same part of the tank. The perch quickly got used to this regimen and waited by the top of the tank for a shiner at that one spot. I dropped in a thawed raw market shrimp at that spot and the perch nailed it and swallowed it. Now, I feed it an alternating diet with gut-loaded shiners one day and market shrimp the next. If it misses the shrimp, it'll ignore it. But, the perch has never spit out a shrimp once it nailed it.
 
It will take time, but it isn't impossible. The advice Oddball posted is exactly what you need to follow.
 
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