thansk everyone! my origional plan was to get him full of tadpoles so he would be healthy then starve him until he ate the pelletts. while i was still feeding the tadpoles he would look at the pellets then realize they werent wor,s then spit it out. then after a few mins he just ate them. kinda a fast transition. he started with the ones tht look like worms(cichlid sticks) then onto reg, pellets the next day.