My GATF is finally on pellets!

[sunnysjourney]

I've had the Goliath since February and at first I was just concentrating on getting him fat on cut catfish and tilapia. And after he got very comfortable in the tank I started starving him. It took about 50 ish days and he started accepting pellets today! And having my bambusa as a teacher fish definitely helped. Both of them are around 7" now. Here is a video of the gatf and the bambusa eating some hikari sticks and massivores:

 

[Red Aimara]

Great to hear that.

My ATFs (except the FATF) are starting to feed on fish slices too.

 

[ECW]

Good job! Showed him whose boss ah!

 

[sunnysjourney]

Great to hear that.
My ATFs (except the FATF) are starting to feed on fish slices too.

Thank you! And thats good, and your bambusa is on pellets right?

Good job! Showed him whose boss ah!

Heh, yeah man. The dude was stubborn but I didn't give in haha.

 

[dat_tiger]

Thank you! And thats good, and your bambusa is on pellets right?



Heh, yeah man. The dude was stubborn but I didn't give in haha.

So it went 50 days without eating anything?

 

[Red Aimara]

The Bambusa is actually still in live feeders but it does occasionally take some fish slices.

 

[sunnysjourney]

So it went 50 days without eating anything?

Around 50 days. Although he might have eaten some pellets in the middle but I didn't see him eat anything. This pic is from the 23rd of May and that was the last time I fed him cut fish. He ate a lot of salmon and catfish:

And this pic is from two days ago, you can see that hes lost a lot of weight:

 

[sunnysjourney]

The Bambusa is actually still in live feeders but it does occasionally take some fish slices.

Ah I see. Lucky mine was on cut fish / pellets when I got him lol.

 

[Red Aimara]

Seriously good looking GAFT there.

 

[greenerinks]

Congrats man, looks like mine unfortunately doesn't eat anything but live.. And they are big now.. When I starve them, just ends up biting other fish in aggrrssion which causes too much damage at their size..