How to Train NTT's for Pellets

[CuTTy]

ok so with my Cichla i dropped 1 feeder in the tank at a time until they tarted hitting them practically the second it hit the water then i would just substitute a rosy red with shrimp or pellets and then gradually kept doing it until it was just pellets and shrimp. BUUT my dats arent that aggressive when eating. anything and everything i drop in the tank goes unnoticed. even feeders they swim around for 5-10 minutes pretty much until the DATS even take notice... they dont seem the mind being starved either.

 

[Ade]

Tigers are a tough fish to convert to pellets. A healthy tiger can go 4-8 weeks with no food.
Cichla will eat anything in comparison.
You can either starve them
More many weeks , if you have the will power.
Or marinate the pellets on prawnjuices or bloodworm juices.

 

[yh_loh]

You need to be patience when come to converting DAT to pallets or Shrimp. All my small size DATs have converted to take Shrimp with pallets. I have try several times to feed them with shrimp and pallets but they tend to be ignore them. However when I add some small fishes like tiger bards they tend to follow them to eat what the tiger bards eat. Also you need to starve them a few days before start new food like shrimp or pallets. However if your fish is too young, you just feed what they want until sometime when they grown a bit older like maybe around 3" inch.
Hope you get them on shrimp or pallets soon.
Thanks.

 

[rayfong]

Patience, when I got my small NTT's they were on feeders. Then I got tired of going out and buying them so I started feeding mysis shrimp. They didn't eat initially but caught on as they were housed in a tank with other fish. Once they were on frozen is when I started feeding pellets. All of my dats are not on pellets which makes feeding really easy.