Just feeding freeze-dried, frozen, live

[darthodo]

My grammode won't eat much pelleted food if any. What if I just feed him live mealworms, earthworms, freeze-dried krill and crickets, and frozen bloodworms. He eats all these quite well. I can soak the freeze-dried and frozen food in Kent Zoe, which is what I do often. Is this okay. I can starve him for 3 days and he will eat one or two pellets, then he holds out until I starve him again. He will eat the aforementioned foods every day.

 

[Spaz]

I had the same problem my friend. I started feeding Sera(Vipan) sticks for a week and they came around. Now they fight over Omega One large pellets. You don't want to get into a rut with live food.

 

[Marc280106]

My Carpinte is the same. He absolutely refuses to eat such things as pellet's. I decided to go with the fasting process, only offering 3-4 pellets once or twice a week. Going on six weeks without touching them, i quereied this and everyone said, "Just give it time, he'll eat them when he's hungry enough." but no, he would not budge. Almost 3 months he went without eating a single morsal. In this time he became extremely emaciated, so i relented. Since then he has been eating Freeze dried, fresh shrimp (which he will not touch until darkness, wierd.), night crawlers etc. with the odd bit of veg. He appears quite healthy, but i cannot seem to pack the wieght back on him. Every time he looks as though his filling out again, the very next day he looks like someone in a third world country again. Seems to me he is lacking such thing's as crude fat's and protein that a good pellet offers.

 

[chillidragon]

Since then he has been eating Freeze dried, fresh shrimp (which he will not touch until darkness, wierd.), night crawlers etc...

As a random thought, couldn't you powder up some pellets and smoosh them up with the shrimp and some gelatin, chill/cube/freeze it and see if that works? Sort of smuggling the pellets in there...