Live Food Only

[benzjamin13]

There's been plenty of thread on trying to get a fish off live, but I'm curious to know how many haven't been able to get them off live.

How long have you tried?

You still trying?

What method did/are you use/using?

How many of you given up (not trying to sound negative) and are just feeding live exclusively?

 

[ShadowBass]

Only one of my fish only eats live. I have had him a few months, and I'm sure eventually he'll take to frozen. The problem right now is he's by himself because he is too big to go with my small fish and too small to go with my big fish. It always helps if you have them with other fish that are already on prepared foods.
Even the wildcaught gar my husband just brought home took to frozen cocktail shrimp the first time I tried.

I've only ever had two types of fish that would never take to anything but live food. Wildcaught pygmy sunfish, and a south american leaf fish, and neither are known for eating prepared foods.

 

[doomiedee]

I've only had to do this once with my rtc when I first got him he was 4" feeding exclusively on feeder convicts. I had it for a few months in the first week it ate a green terror two female convicts and a Texas cichlid. Then I put my ray in the pond with it and it began to eat nightcrawlers that I feed the ray then I slowly started introducing frozen bloodworms and shrimp and it gobbled everything I feed it. Even toke a snap at me a few times. Some fish are a lot easier to ween off live foods to really just how you do it. Also the the post before me said it helps to have fish that already eat frozen or pellets. The new fish will quickly realize what's food.
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[benzjamin13]

I had a Chinese Perch that I only got to eat a piece of shrimp once...and I had to jerk it around on a fishing line to entice it to eat. Never got it to eat any non-living food ever again. All it would hold out for was feeders. Went a month without eating a couple of occasions. It eventually was too weak from lack of food and got too cold to survive the winter (the day I decided to put a heater in was the day I found it dead)