Well for the first time today i went to Price Chopper a local grocery store and bought a pound of frozen raw shrimp and let them thaw out and cut them up and fed them to my clan... all but the biggest one ate the non-live food? it was the same the other day with the frozen whole krill, he wanted nothing to do with anything that didnt swim? I have benn feeding for the last couple months one by one feeder so they would hit whatever hit the water? any suggestions?
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- Thread starter g_morin
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Persevere 
Does he even put them in his mouth?? If so you are more than half way to non live feeding
Does he even put them in his mouth?? If so you are more than half way to non live feeding
Keep up the training you are pretty much there..... Maybe a week maybe a month if he is real stubborn.. But keep up what you are doing... If they take it in you are winning
Mine didn't start eating dead stuff until after 4 days. I still can't get them to eat a scallop. They hate them. I got them to eat some big night crawlers, and if you check further down in the posts here, you will see that I killed one of my P's with a jumbo shrimp.
g_morin;1425913; said:
As stated above keep on trying exactly what you are doing. He will take soon.
THe minnows die because they are kept in 68-70 Degrees and you drop them into your tropical tank that is much warmer. When I used to feed live food I would put the feeders into a 30 gallon rubbermaid and adust the water slowly brining it to 75-76 degrees. Then when i added to the 78-80 degree tank the shock was much less to them and they didn't die right away.