freshwater lionfish helpp please

[manlyfish]

ok so has anyone ever got an freshwater lionfish to take pellets? and how would i do this. if you haven't kept one you don't know how hard it is to get them to even eat a dead fish

 

[Red Tiger]

mine only ate feeder fish.

 

[fishtex]

The only thing I have been able to get mine to eat( Besides live) is fresh raw market shrimp. Just skewer or hold it with some tongs and dance it around like a fish. It took me about a month and a half of starving my large one of and on till he took it. My smaller started eating it immediately.
Patience is key and good luck!!

 

[YVRdarb]

Try fasting it for a few days and then try brushing the dead food against the mouth area, if that fails try a gentle whack. It will hopefully strike instinctively out of hunger or in the latter case out of aggression.

 

[Experiment397]

as was said they will mot switch over to pellets. you can get them over to prekilled though with a lot of patience. good luck