my endli will not eat frozen food any help??

[fungus amungus]

ok so my endli (george) is about 13" and about 3" across (no little fish) and has been feeding on the culls from my fish hatchery all summer now that I am at college for another fun filled year i can not get him to go back to silversides... last year he switched with no problem.... feeding him feeders is not a problem the prblem is that he eats over around 65-75 of them a week and I tried getting fish and killing them but for some reason the sadistic fish will not eat ANY that he did not kill so for now I am keeping the local fish stor in buisness with a 50+ feeder order a week any one that has any ideas let em fly! lol and I will get some pics of george up here soon

 

[Kenta]

youre going to have to wean him off live foods, it may take a long time. The key is not to give in, just starve him until he accepts frozen foods. Don't worry, a healthy fish will not starve itself to death

 

[elykyelsna]

yeah, just starve them a little, thats how i got my 18'' clown knife to start eating frozen

 

[beblondie]

As street cypher stated a healthy fish will not starve itself to death and they can go quite a while without food also.bichirs build up a layer of fat they can live off of for several weeks if needed.
One trick I have used in the past is to place the defrosted silversides in plants with their tails poking out.Iused it to get Lapoff his hunger strikes.
or used a feeding stick placethe defrosted food on the end and wiggle it to appear to be live food-Anne
P.S> feed it everyother day will cut ack on food bills and be more healthy for the fish the sad truth is we tend to overfeed our fish

 

[Jesse]

Have you tried market prawns or earthworms? They could help bridge the gap to frozen silversides.

 

[Deathcurl]

Yah...I agree that a lil forced diet may be in order. Worked great for my endi, gars and dats that were stubborn on feeders. They're all on market shrimp and squid that I cut and freeze as a staple now

 

[fungus amungus]

he is deffinately a stubburn SOB last night he was agressivly chasing a feeder and jumped putting a HUGE crack in my 1/4 inch glass top other then that I am going to starve him he is lathargic lol and fat after he eats thanx for the help... anyone have any endli this big or bigger???