I have a couple of real picky cichlids, an odo and a dovii. Both are about 6 inches. The only prepared food the hait will eat is HBH soft and moist spirulina and HBH soft and moist krill pellets. The dovii only eats Tetra cichlid floating sticks and Ken's Basic Growth Flake with color. I give them many frozen foods and live eartjworms on occaision. I'd like to get them eating a pellet like NLS, Omega One, Hikari, or Formula One/Two. How do I get them to eat these foods they don't normally touch? Should I just starve them for a long time until they will eat anything I throw in there?
Getting picky cichlids to try new stuff...
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im going through a bit of that myself with my dovii (11 in.) got him at tca auction and he doesnt want to eat anything but homemade beefheart. turns his nose up at everything else. i did put in some feeders(hrp fry) and he will hunt. let me know what you do as id like him to eat pellets mainly.
dont feed them for a few days.try them with some cichlid gold.just put a couple bits in so there is not enough to go round.the fish that get the cichlid gold should keep it in their mouths because they are hungry and they dont want the other fish to get the food.
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Starve em bro.........
I hate doing it, but the purge is good for their systems as well! My Jag does that to me...
The Picky lil ******! Now I got him on Bio-Gold and Frozen!
I hate doing it, but the purge is good for their systems as well! My Jag does that to me...
The Picky lil ******! Now I got him on Bio-Gold and Frozen!
i don't recommend literally starving any fish or animal whatsoever. so, keeping that in mind for fish "starving" could go weeks and so on. Days to 1 week would be considered a "fasting" and this is actually good for fish. there is a few threads on here that discuss this.
some fish just prefer certain foods. thats y there is several different categories of fish, based on what they consume on regular basis.
some fish just prefer certain foods. thats y there is several different categories of fish, based on what they consume on regular basis.
Also realize it's a figure of speech, in the wild they go a hell of a lot longer without food then they do for us, but yes...Fasting is a better term for what I was getting at....
Darth knows what I meant......
Darth knows what I meant......
You use the same foods I do for converting fish. What I suggest is you mix the pellet of your choice with the pellets they eat, hopefully they take both in. Or you could try soaking the hard pellets for awhile, one reason I think the softer pellets are prefered is because...well...they're soft.