**My PB Only Eat Live Food**

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Tyang

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Hey Fellow Monsterfishkeepers,

My PB are only eating the feeders (Rosy Red). I tried everything; Having a teacher fish, dropping a pellet/frozen krill after i drop a feeder, and they still don't eat it. As soon as i drop a feeder they hit it so fast i don't even see it. But when i drop something else they look at it like they're not even hungry. Instead of my teacher fish teaching the PB, it's more like the PB's is teaching the teacher not to eat the pellet and to go for the feeder.

SO I TRY TO STARVE THEM???????? LMK if you have ANY KIND OF IDEA i'm open to anything as of right now. Just not the idea of GIVING THEM AWAY =P

Thanks
Tyang
 
Try throwing the food at the surface of the water. Start with frozen foods like krill. When it starts snatching food from the surface, start substituting pellets.
 
How long have you had them? How long have you tried to train them?

What is your main reason for crossing over?

And is there another source of feeders you could get locally such as cichlids?
 
peacock bass, especially when they are tiny, will strike on anything that moves.. so i thaw bloodworms and brine shrimp and drop it in the tank just in front of the filter or power head outlet so it moves across the tank like it's alive.

they will grab it every time.. they MAY spit it out, but eventually they will bite it and eat it. if your guys are bigger than that, go ahead and try the same thing with frozen krill or cut up market shrimp.
 
Tyang;2319555; said:
market shrimp? as the local grocery stores?
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Yep just cut it up into bite size pieces and its gotta be raw, not pre-cooked. They may look at it funny for awhile but keep trying. Once they eat it, they love it. Be sure and take out any uneaten bits as soon as you can.
 
I've heard P.bass are good at sulking like Oscars, but P.bass dont eat anything like Oscar. I keep both, Oscar eats anything literally.

I got a juvie P.bass that mostly takes pellets, I have never actually given him any live food, and I dont want to in case they depend on them (sulk for them). ITs really a matter of individuals sometime, I had my P. bass when it was quite young, so I had him on pellets, normal flakes, granular food etc, odd bit and pieces of frozen food, but never anything live.

About starving them: doubt it will work, but you can try. How big r the bass?
 
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