My fish try to train me. Not.

[FINWIN]

Ever since I introduced freeze dried blackworms my fish are worse than junkies in a meth lab. Fighting, pushing, liplocking and bouncing off each other. Yesterday Chip (Sev) and Bobo (Choc) swam around with tufts of worms hanging from their lips. Boss (BP) snatched his off the glass inhaling them while my O Brick gulped mouthfuls of cubes whole before returning to his 'lagoon.' So today I gave them variety (pellets, mealworms). They picked at the mealworms and patiently waited at the top. Pellets they ignored. Didn't bother with the mealworms much either. Guess what they wanted? BLACKWORMS. And they continute to wait and will wait some more. Most notable exception is Boss, who never met a meal he didn't like. So while the others hovered at the top hoping for blackworms, Boss grubbed the bottom for every pellet and mealworm he could find. He picks them off the plants and grabs them off the sand. He cleans the substrate better than most catfish. Talk about licking the platter clean!

So the bottom line is, eat what I give, or wait. I have no problems getting the other parrots (Kong, Patch, Tango) to eat pellets. They shlup the blackworms but don't seem as addicted to them as the others. The stuff is worse than Crack. I have the type with the spirulina added but the supplier needs to get larger bags. 10 grams ain't gonna cut it (10-15 cubes). Aquatic Foods says supply is outstripping demand right now, when larger bags are available they'll let everyone know.

My fish are stubborn. So am I. ?

Anyone else have rotten fish that want you to cave to their demands? My crew would eat the equivalent of steak 24/7 if I were stupid enough to give it.

 

[squint]

I bought 2 kg of Repashy powder and my fish wouldn't touch it. I wasn't going to throw it away so I bought 1 kg of their old food (Mazuri gel) and made a batch of 95% Mazuri and 5% Repashy. They ate it. Each batch of food lasted 2-3 weeks and with each subsequent batch I increased Repashy by 5% and decreased Mazuri by 5%. After about a year had them eating 100% Repashy. After they finished it all I switched back to Mazuri and they took to it right away. I guess Mazuri just tastes better.

 

[esoxlucius]

I think our fish have us all pretty much well trained up. We feed them, water change them, medicate them when necessary, scape their tanks just nice, basically they have us catering for their every whim.

We're all slaves to the scaly beggars.

But would we have it any other way?