How do I get my CK to eat floating pellets?
- Thread starter MistirE
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sure you can get your ck to eat non live food. it does take time and some fasting but once you get him to realize that something that isnt alive still is food you'll be fine. i started with freeze dried krill which seemed to have a potent enough sent to atract his attention and like mentioned before i waved it a little to gain some more interest. after he tried it a few times he began taking just about anything (exept oscar food
)even flake food!
)even flake food!
My 12" ck wont eat anything on the surface, he wont even look at the surface. he only eats shrimp and beefheart. he wont even eat shrip pellets. I have a 5" and he will only eat sticks from the surface and basically hides at the top all day. i think it depends on the fish
Understand that starving a fish like this takes more than a few days. Ive starved some large predatory fish for a month to get them to eat, and they didnt even show sign of slimming down, so they can have alot in them. I never was able to train my CK toeat floating food. Make sure you feed it at night with the lights off coz thats when its most comfortable to feed. Anyway be careful when starving a fish coz its not nice. I only did it coz they wouldnt eat anything at all when I first got em (two barramundi) so I had no choice but to keep throwing food at them until they took it. It also helps to have a quarantine tank where you can keep the fish by itself so no other fish interfere with its feeding, but thats not really worth it if you just want to get it to eat some leftover food is it?
Mine did not eat at the surface until they got 12-14inch. When they finally did that is where they looked for food. They also loved the bulk fish pellets sold by the pound mixed with H. gold.
This is what I did, I use the floating Wardley Cichilid Floating pellets and notice my snails was always at the top eating them, so I would just squeeze the pellet under water in the tank to get the air out and it will sink. Smart huh...
good luck it took me forever to feed mine floating food and to be honest here i am fourmonths later and he still rejects it sometimes and it sits and gets soggy and sinks and then it breaks apart when he tries to eat it so i have to constantly clean his tank cause of that...you can try using frozen blood worms i know that still expensive but the scent and what not migh bring his attention to the top of the water and after he gets use to taken that switch back and forth between the bloodworms and the stick food and then if you want keep all on the stick once he starts taking that...i reccommend a varied diet and to not keep him solely on pelleted foods...good luck again.
