Im having no luck with this method my little orinos just pick out the blood worms and leave the pieces of pellet. Im using floating and sinking nls pellets and a half a cube of blood worms thawed out, mixed and refrozen. This is clearly not working, any suggestions?
Frozen bloodworm/pellet method
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try floating pellets and keep trying - they will eventually take food. no fish will starve itself with food present...
That is so not true. A fish will starve itself to death...ive seen it.
Try and thaw the blood worms out and crush up the pellets and mix em together. Then feed w/ a spoon or medicine dropper. When i was training my orino's they would eat right off the spoon once they got used to it.
Myl little WC Temensis Bass were not hitting on Blood Worms, Floating Pellets or Krill, until i cut up little pieces of these food sticks, and now they eat them like there going out of style....Good luck.
Follow ganster's recommendation and use the spoon. Put small amounts of thawed bloodworms and pellets on the spoon but don't just dump it in. They will hit the spoon looking for food. Give them a little at a time. They will spit the pellets out at first. Eventually they will recognize that whatever is on the spoon is food. Slowly decrease the bloodworms and increase the pellets. This will take some time, but it works...be patient.
soften the pellets in the thawed frozen blood worm, then feed the mixture to them. personally, i think cichlas are very competitive when it comes to food, as long as 1 starts taking the pellets, the rest will follow. my kelberi took hikari sinking pellets 2 days ago and yesterday, my orino followed and taken the pellets without spitting them out. it took 5 days to wean my kelberi off live food, after it observed the rest of my cichlas taking dead meat.
good luck
good luck
Ok ill give the medicine dropper a try.
soften the pellets in the thawed frozen blood worm, then feed the mixture to them. personally, i think cichlas are very competitive when it comes to food, as long as 1 starts taking the pellets, the rest will follow. my kelberi took hikari sinking pellets 2 days ago and yesterday, my orino followed and taken the pellets without spitting them out. it took 5 days to wean my kelberi off live food, after it observed the rest of my cichlas taking dead meat.
good luck
I was softening the pellets in the blood worms.....they just pick around them and either leave them floating or on the bottom.