How do you guy keep your water clean while pellet training?

[cuongly267]

Started to pellet train my 2.5” basses. I followed the sticky guide above with crushed pellets mixed with bloodworm and refreeze. They eating but my water gets dirty really fast. Also there be a lot of uneating pellet dusts dirtying the water.

As of right now not 100% sure if they actually eating the pellets or just chewing it for the bloodworms and the pellets dusts falls out their gills.

The amount of siphoned pellet dusts looks the same I fed them with.

 

[tcav88]

Quilt batting in your pre filter or filter socks I use 200 micron can tell if they’re eating by their poop color should be the same color as the pellets

 

[cuongly267]

Quilt batting in your pre filter or filter socks I use 200 micron can tell if they’re eating by their poop color should be the same color as the pellets

Thanks dude. I’ll check their poop color

 

[Chefken]

Catfish. You need a cleanup crew!!

 

[Nove Sedici]

Started to pellet train my 2.5” basses. I followed the sticky guide above with crushed pellets mixed with bloodworm and refreeze. They eating but my water gets dirty really fast. Also there be a lot of uneating pellet dusts dirtying the water.

As of right now not 100% sure if they actually eating the pellets or just chewing it for the bloodworms and the pellets dusts falls out their gills.

The amount of siphoned pellet dusts looks the same I fed them with.

Platydoras Costatus, the perfect hoover for an Aquarium ;-)

 

[cigars]

Daily siphonings/water changes. It’s messy pellet training

 

[Jexnell]

Floating pellets so you can net out left overs easy like.

 

[Matteus]

I remember this stage with mine. They would hit the food so hard that it looked like the food was smoking from the impact. They would stop suddenly just past where the food was dropped and there would be a cloud where the food previously was.

All good advice here. Maybe even a combo of all of the above. Tinfoil barbs are your friend lol. The benefit of doing daily syphoning is you will have better water which will in turn help them grow faster, which means they will be more likely to eat pellets.

Even if it seems they are not eating any of the pellets on purpose, they are getting that taste into their mouths and are associating it with a food item. It might get really frustrating for a month or so, but one day you drop a pellet in there and they won’t spit it out, and all the efforts will be worth it. Best day ever for a c.r.e.a.m. Member.

Once they get to 6-8” you will look back on the old days when they didn’t splash you every time you feed them. Lol.