Haha no after qt i introduce them to my other cichlas that eats pellets so it usually takes two to three days of starving until they take pellets. So i am not neglecting my fish. When in qt i feed them a variety of frozen food.
How to pellet train pbass
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Haha no after qt i introduce them to my other cichlas that eats pellets so it usually takes two to three days of starving until they take pellets. So i am not neglecting my fish. When in qt i feed them a variety of frozen food.
I know. Sometimes it's just really hard. I know you have better experience in this.
Ive gotten 5 wc cichla orinos on to pellets within a week of introducing them to my monos. Its just patience and dont feed anything else then pellets. They will eat eventually. Same goes with datnioids except datnioids are more stubborn.
Datnoids have to be the champions when it comes to training.....especially the NTT and the NGT.
My AT didnt eat for two months before it ate pellets with eat or die method with musselsoaked pellets. Ive got 4 IT and only one of them eats pellets.
I have 2 kels. One eats anything. Tetra crisps, Hikari sticks etc. etc. The second one ate the sticks. Once.... Repeatedly spits them out. Now one kel is bigger than the other. And sometimes picking on the smaller. So I stuff sticks in various foods for the other to eat.
I also target feed. So there is a little more to it than let em starve. That much I do know.
Interesting,every AT I've had was very quick to take up pellets.I have six indos now and all are on pellets.
This one i got took forever to take pellets. And it only eats northfin krill gold. If u chucks my mix of nf krill nf jumbo and nf carnivore it sorts krill gold out and leaves the rest.
Try to starve it and feed only pellets for some time and it will eat sooner or later. But be careful with that approach. It has to be fat and healthy. But usually within a week it eats pellets
as i said i got 5 wc large orinos ranging from 30 to 40cm to take pellets within a week after introduced to the tank.It would be nice if he could separate them and power feed the smaller kel until it catches up in size.
That is so true. Ive got one kel growing out now and awaits 10 more to be ready for pick up from a friend who breeds them.
