it took two months of starvation, persistence and teacher fish to break my gatf. I would starve the fish for about two weeks at a time while introducing various non live foods. After a while he would start looking at food on top really close. When he started looking it wasn't long before he made his first swipe at a freeze dried krill. Once he made that first swipe, I knew that he saw the krill as food items and at that point he got no more live feeders.
Now that he's broken, he won't take anything BUT pellets. I had some stubborn fish after him that took feeders only, and the feeders were completely safe in the vicinity of the goliath. Eating pellets made him lazy! lol Its impossible to overstate the importance of teacher fish here. If my gatf wasn't watching other fish, I don't know if he ever would have figured it out.
