Get bluegill to eat sinking pellets

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Take a worm and put it in a small container. Add a tiny bit if water. Cut the worms up with scissors. Soak pellets in the watery worm blood. Feed.

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IME sunfish in general are very greedy feeders. They natural fight with each other for food and hate seeing others eating what they could have had. Monkey see monkey do is really all you should need. I have had sunfish spit pellets out at first, most of the time they just don't recognize hard pellets as edible. Soaking just a little to soften them up might be all you need. But as they get hungrier and see the other two eating, they will more than likely start competing to get at the food.
 
I agree with Shennanigans,I have had tanks full of them chase each other around and squabble over the food that I offer them and yeah,once you stop it with the worms and the holdouts get hungry enough they will take the pellets...I have one sunfish left and it eats floating as well as sinking pellets,it hits the floaters so hard it almost jumps up out of the water.
 
Size is the only factor I can think of. Try the next size down pellet until the swallow with ease. I have never seen the smallest fingerling green sunnies spit out 1.5MM pellet.
 
I have a small bluegill in a 29gal by itself. It took 2 weeks of starvation before it took Hikari Carnivore. Now, it pounces on the Carnivore, but spit all other pellets out.....I'm ok with that.
 
screaminleeman said:
Size is the only factor I can think of. Try the next size down pellet until the swallow with ease. I have never seen the smallest fingerling green sunnies spit out 1.5MM pellet.
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Mine does, unless they're soaked in worm juice like suggested a few posts above.
 
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