Ngt Dead

[shookONES]

I have a hard time believing that, most healthy animals won't starve if there is something available.

That's not true. Plenty of fish will starve themselves to death. I've had NGT, Siniperca Chuatsi, Fire Eels, just to name a few, pass. And what's worse...a lot of times you'll starve a fish and when you eventually give in and feed live, they die from gorging themselves.

 

[predatorkeeper87]

That's not true. Plenty of fish will starve themselves to death. I've had NGT, Siniperca Chuatsi, Fire Eels, just to name a few, pass. And what's worse...a lot of times you'll starve a fish and when you eventually give in and feed live, they die from gorging themselves.

interesting. seems like a particular set of species that do this in the hobby mostly.

 

[Jhncf]

Shame but I could never starve a fish for that long, my arowana and dat only eat frozen and I've never bothered trying to pellet train them yet, I just stuff the frozen food with pellets. As for fire eels and cichla only eating live, my fire eel has eaten frozen since the day I got it and it took less than a week to convert both lots of my 2" cichla to pellets.

 

[Arowana718]

All i could say is NGT are the hardest to pellet train

 

[robroy]

All i could say is NGT are the hardest to pellet train

I lost a a small NGT years ago by starving-second one I starved for a few weeks and then gave market prawn soaked before hand in bloodworms (it would only eat bloodworm when I got it). Tried this for 1-2 days and if it didnt take the prawn I went back to starving it for a couple of weeks. Took 3-4 cycles of doing this before it took the prawn. Then I did the same with pallets- I put pellets in the prawn and again it took several cycles before it took pellets. Whole process took 4-5 months. It can work but I learnt never to starve it completely after my previous experience. I subscribe to the starving fish will die but that's due to my own experience. Made me feel really bad too