Getting Lima Shovelnose off live food

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EclecticFish

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Anyone with any ideas? I have a Lima. Had her since she was 3 inches and eating blood worms and brine shrimp. Now she is a foot, been a bit over a year.
Since she started taking fish (most of her life with me) she will not eat when I am watching or when the lights are on. She only eats live. Tried krill, earthworms, silver sides.

I don't care if I ever see her eat, but I would like something healthier than feeders. Is it ever likely she will switch? How did you switch yours if you did?

I have the same question for a Needlenose gar too. Only live fish. Tried same as with the Lima.

TIA
 
I hate this but starving them seems to work for me. I have (and i know this is hard to believe) but i have 2 Vampire tetra's (payara) three datnoids a stergeon catfish and a green arrowana eating frozen krill, 2 peacock bass eating pellets. I just can't get my redtailed baracuda to eat any thing but fish.
 
My lima would eat raw meat, fish or shimp if I dropped them in the tank right above it. As they sank one of the long wiskers would reach out to taste it and then it would pouce. It learned to eat prepared sinking food in under a week.
 
She won't even eat with the lights on. She shares the tank with others so leaving food around and hoping it will go away is not helpful. The others will eat it too and I can only tell by her gut if she has eaten a lot. Oh well.
 
I had a similar problem with a tsn only eating feeders... Eventually I got her to take in sinking carnivorous pellets... But ya i had to "starve" her for a few days before she finally accepted. Try some sort of sinking pellet at first, they don't dirty up the water as bad as raw meats... if you can get her on that then move to the food you'd prefer... oh and my tsn wont eat with the lights totally on but it seems to be fine if not prefer dim lights...
 
i put a power head in the tank and other fish
i feed them flakes that would move in the current
i would only feed him krill and stuff like once a week and after some time he learned to eat the flakes
 
Tried shrimp, tried krill, tried earthworms, tried clams, tried scallops, tried silver sides. She may have eaten a silver side last night....hard to say.
 
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