Idiot needs help.

[ewurm]

This was the way I got all my Pbass to non live...

Start to feed them by throwing one feeder at at time....let the bass see you in front of the tank and hold your hand right above the water surface with the feeder....when you have their attention..drop the feeder.....if they hit it immediately-great! if not, wait untill they dispatch that feeder...eat it. then repeat with every feeder....this is a little time consuming but will condition them to hit whatever drops to the water.....after a week of using this process the bass will come to the surface awaiting you to drop the food and will hit the feeders with tenacity!!!
-----------------once you've accomplished this...have some freeze dried krill at hand....after approx 2 feeders drop a krill in the tank....it will be hit! but dont be discouraged if they spit it out....keep up the process...feeder....krill....feeder....then cut back to dropping krill only....they will take it. eventually they will nail the krill just as they did with feeders...then you can continue the cycle by trying other foods to see what they may prefer better........and every so often give em some feeders to keep them on their toes!! This is a fool-proof method of breaking them of live food and it works.

This is exactly the way I got my bass to take dried krill and then pellets.

 

[USMCtanker]

try earth worms or blood worms, or u can not feed them for a cpl of days and then try and feed them krill. thats what i did

 

[fishrmann2]

This is exactly the way I got my bass to take dried krill and then pellets.

Yep, learned that trick from DieselMack!

 

[ewurm]

I saw this thread "Idiot needs help" and I thought it was mine!

 

[fishrmann2]

I hear ya! I felt the same way..... not about you of corse

 

[rocsorcs]

Thanks for all of the info, guys. I have got them eating frozen bloodworms. I am going to go to the store and get some krill soon.

What kind of pellets do I need to get ?

 

[rocsorcs]

I got them to eat some thawed out shrimp !

 

[rocsorcs]

I don't know if anybody is even still looking at this thread, but I got them to eat some krill, and I got some carnivorous food sticks from Tetra, and I have been trying them for the past couple of days, and I think it might be working.

 

[bpunisher18]

Whew I thought someone was calling me out in this thread (wipes sweat from brow)

 

[dmarinko]

they eat them