I can not get my peacock bass to eat anything but feeders. I know how horrible feeders are and i need to get him off of eating them. So far i have starved him for a week and he still hasnt eaten anything! i have tried frozen krill. frozen blood worms, pellets, frozen silversides, frozen smelt from the grocery store and still he has refused everything. I am about to have to feed him some feeders i do not want to starve him for too long. If you have any suggestions please comment. He is about 10-11 inches.
Help i cant get my peacock bass off feeders.
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Wow that big n still on feeders gonna be rough. Any other fish in tank that will eat frozen. So it gets the idea from them or just keep trying. Also u can dangle the food in tank with a fishing wire near the surface.
Maybe put in 1-2 feeders one at a time then toss is a filet or something.
Maybe put in 1-2 feeders one at a time then toss is a filet or something.
1 week is way too little. Wait 1-2 months. He will be fine, just a little sunken belly. This worked for my datnoid. Fish can go for a very long time without food. I have not fed a fish for 4 months before he was a skeleton when I came back but 1 gigantic feeding and their back to normal.
I agree one week isn't long enough. My biggest concern is ur setup. Have u been trying all these foods just in this week? Is there other fish to clean up the leftovers? Are you removing the food shortly after he does not eat them? Other wise you could be creating really bad water for him if he is a single fish in a tank.!.!. If all of the above checks out okay, I strongly believe in the monkey see monkey do training... I've broke quite a few fish before by putting them with other fish that eat that food and eventually they just say ok sounds good.
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If starting with a well fed, healthy and happy fish, 1+ month is a good try, even 1.5-2 months can be tried. Monkey see monkey do does work but the challenge is to have another fish that preferrably eats the same food in a similar fashion to your PB. If not, even a different fish, like a bottom feeder may still be tried.
Buy some frozen tilapia filets. Slice off 1/4 inch thick slices. Thaw them out and put them in right in front of where the water is flowing. The piece will kind of move thru the water like a wriggling worm. This worked for me with wild caught bass and pike roughly the same size. Let me know if it works.
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What!!! Have you starved a bass that long and that small before?
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It's biggles nothing he says can be taken seriously
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Method I'm currently using, (Taken from an email Danny (Dangerhack) sent me.). BTW I was using Rosie Reds as feeders. "Ok hopefully when you feed him Rosies you are not dumping in a bunch at a time. If you are, start keeping the Rosies in a quarantine tank or in a 5 gallon pail with tank water an a air pump ( they will live many days like this). Feed only 1 Rosie at a time until he eats it, don't put more then 1 in at a time if he didn't eat it.
Now take a fresh live Rosie and cut it in half. Dump in 1 half of the Rosie and see if he eats it. If so keep feed cut up fresh Rosie's usually this works because it was just alive and still fresh. If he doesn't take the cut Rosie try 2 or 3 times then try a whole live one again an repeat back to cut Rosie's. once your bass is eating cut Rosie's keep feeding him like this for 3 or 4 days. Once he eats cut bait do NOT feed live again. Will mess everything up.
After 4 or 5 days try to feed him cut frozen silversides. If he takes that then your on the right track it's easier an cheaper...
Once he is on silversides for a few days try in a small cup with cut up silverside or cut Rosie's to put some pellets in the cup I prefer carnisticks... Let them sit in the juice add some warm water an let the pellets soak up the blood an juices. Throw 1 pellet at a time an see if he takes it ...should work." My Kelberi has been eating cut Rosies for about a week. Mouths pellets but spits them out. Getting closer! Good luck!!
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Now take a fresh live Rosie and cut it in half. Dump in 1 half of the Rosie and see if he eats it. If so keep feed cut up fresh Rosie's usually this works because it was just alive and still fresh. If he doesn't take the cut Rosie try 2 or 3 times then try a whole live one again an repeat back to cut Rosie's. once your bass is eating cut Rosie's keep feeding him like this for 3 or 4 days. Once he eats cut bait do NOT feed live again. Will mess everything up.
After 4 or 5 days try to feed him cut frozen silversides. If he takes that then your on the right track it's easier an cheaper...
Once he is on silversides for a few days try in a small cup with cut up silverside or cut Rosie's to put some pellets in the cup I prefer carnisticks... Let them sit in the juice add some warm water an let the pellets soak up the blood an juices. Throw 1 pellet at a time an see if he takes it ...should work." My Kelberi has been eating cut Rosies for about a week. Mouths pellets but spits them out. Getting closer! Good luck!!
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