how to train paroons to eat from surface

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hey guys ... my paroons doesn't eat from surface they eat only sinking food like meat and fish fillet and some other food who sink from fish store

now i saw in youtube alot of paroons whom eat from surface is there anyway to train them or something i want them to eat floating food like pillets !!
 
Stop feeding sinking food and start feeding floating flood. Eventually they will start to find it and eat it
 
If it's only been the first few days it's not long enough. Depending on how big they are, they can go a week without eating. make sure you're using the same food, just in a floating version. If it doesn't smell the same to them, they won't try it.
 
ofc it doesn't smell the same the pillets doesn't smell like meat or fish fillet

they are 22-24" in 150g i know the tank is small i'm looking for update soon
 
Jreeper said:
i have tried that the first days i get them !! they don't get to the surface no matter what even if thats mean there starving
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Have not you had a whole ordeal for the first couple of weeks when they would not eat anything? I don't quite understand the logic.

As suggested, don't offer anything but the floating pellets for several weeks or a couple of months until they cave. The pellets should be of good quality and made for predatory tropical catfish. Right now you have them trained to eat flesh, both dead and live (they ate two tankmates). They have no drive to switch to pellets or anything else.

If they get visibly thinner, give them their usual and then go again for a few weeks to a month.
 
i do in thats days i have traied flouting food with them they don't eat it and they still don't eat it
 
Just to keep it simple, I'd try offering only pellets and only feeding once a week. If they went three weeks without feeding I'd offer one meal of fish stuffed with pellets. Repeat this process until they take pellets. They should take to pellets within a few months and if they didn't they would still be eating enough that they shouldn't lose much mass.
 
houie925 said:
Just to keep it simple, I'd try offering only pellets and only feeding once a week. If they went three weeks without feeding I'd offer one meal of fish stuffed with pellets. Repeat this process until they take pellets. They should take to pellets within a few months and if they didn't they would still be eating enough that they shouldn't lose much mass.
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i will try that :) thx
 
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