Feeding fish

[thatdudeoverthere21]

Whats a good way to introduce your fish to new foods. I have three gars. 2 longnose and 1 florida. The florida is just a baby and in a seperate tank. And he wont eat anything inless its live. With the Florida, is a spotted leaf fish and he wont eat anything inless its live also. Im trying to show them other foods, but they wont go for any of it.
The longnose eat anything and everything i put in the tank. So there fine. With the longnose, i have two big peacock bass and a hybrid rtc x tsn. They wont eat anything besides the massivore pellets.
I like feeding my fish a variety of things. My 2 longnose eat tilapia, freeze dried shrimp, massivore pellets, live red rosy minnows or flathead minnows, frozen krill, and frozen silverside fish. Thats pretty much all ive tried and none if the other fish go for it or eat think about it.
Should i do a starvation process? What are some other idea's?

 

[E.C.]

Starvation can be a good jumpstart. Most of the fish can't say no to their stomach's when they are hungry.

 

[thatdudeoverthere21]

Starvation can be a good jumpstart. Most of the fish can't say no to their stomach's when they are hungry.

Yeah, I'm sure that goes for every animal haha. But im heading towards starvation process soon. I just like seeing my fish eating atleast two different types of food.

 

[stingray keeper]

Mix the new food with the food they're used to so it acquires the same odour and smell. That helps sometimes.

 

[thatdudeoverthere21]

I can try that, might be difficult when they either eat live or pellets. But thanks for the idea.

 

[thatdudeoverthere21]

Anyone?

 

[BuffaloPolypteridae]

Depending on the sizes, what i do is squeeze the insides of a worm out and slide hikari carni sticks inside of it. The worm will still be alive and the fish will taste the hikari and get used to it. My ornate bichir, palmas beuttokoferri, and red hi fin wolf are at the point of mouthing pellets but spitting em back out because of it when they would just ignore them before. My palmas polli started munching pellets straight up 5 days after i got him due to this method, w/o starvation.

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[thatdudeoverthere21]

Huh, very interesting. Ive never heard of that method before or wouldve even thought about it.