I think I'll give that one a try. So from July til present you've been stuffing pellets into the shrimp and only now did it accept pellets only?nomad;4005301; said:just got my 12" ST to eat pellets (got him last july) .....I placed the pellets inside small pieces of shrimp, so the shrimp barely covers the pellets....it was just a matter of time until he started eating pellets by themselves. GL
no ...I did this consistently for about 3 weeks (last month) until he started taking pellets.frootloops;4005456; said:I think I'll give that one a try. So from July til present you've been stuffing pellets into the shrimp and only now did it accept pellets only?
Oh I see, I'll give that mehtod a go first before trying the starvation techniquenomad;4006309; said:no ...I did this consistently for about 3 weeks (last month) until he started taking pellets.
Before that I didn't bother trying thinking that a dat this size (10+" at the time) will never switch...comes to show
so the shrimp you buy is just from the supermarket?frootloops;4004988; said:Read this thread I made
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=314780
from the wet market so they're freshkeonigt;4007700; said:so the shrimp you buy is just from the supermarket?