NLS Pellets Weird Smell?
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After repeated attempts to get my fish to convert to NLS over the years, I have learned that VERY few fish will eat it. After mentioning this to the owner of a LFS recently, he says that is very common in his experience as well and he typically warns customers of this fact before they buy it from him. I know it's supposed to be the best stuff out there but doesn't do any good if fish wont eat it. So it doesn't go to total waste, I have been using my remaining NLS as expensive fertilizer for the plants in my yard.
I have been feeding NLS for approx. 15 years, scores of fish, including many wild caught fish. Other than a wild caught juvenile Mbu puffer, which typically don't eat any type of pellet food, I don't believe that I have ever had a fish that I have not been able to train to eat NLS pellets. I have even trained juvenile Flowerhorn imported from Thailand, that were raised on an exclusive diet of fresh blood worms, to eat NLS pellets. For most fish, in 10 days or less.
If you can't train a freshwater fish to eat pellets, use the search feature and my ID. Your LFS owner is most likely enjoying a better mark up on other products, hence the reason he would state such a ridiculous thing.
If you can't train a freshwater fish to eat pellets, use the search feature and my ID. Your LFS owner is most likely enjoying a better mark up on other products, hence the reason he would state such a ridiculous thing.
In 2mm size NLS pellet, that would probably be a good starting point. Then let your eye on growth and overall health be the judge of what is enough, or too much for the individual fish. Good luck with your new fish.
Hey
RD.
Have you kept a BGK and successfully got him to just eat pellets? All of my other fish have taken to some sort of NlS mainly pellets(some of the smaller ones eat flakes) but my BGK is really stubborn. I've gotten him to freeze dried bloodworms but won't eat pellets or flakes. I've tried the blood worm soaked pellets and still nothing. I apologize if this is off topic but seemed a decent place to ask.
Yes, I had a BGK juvenile for a time, I trained him on the 1mm NLS pellets. It was actually much easier than I expected. I think I had the fish eating the pellets within 1 week of landing in my tank. By the second or third week he would come out of his hide and start seeking them out as soon as the pellets hit the water.
I think that size of pellets is often the key in training, better to start small, with a size of pellet that is easily swallowed by the fish. If the pellet size is too large, the fish will sometimes find them hard, and difficult to manage, or unnatural in their mouth, and reject them.
I think that size of pellets is often the key in training, better to start small, with a size of pellet that is easily swallowed by the fish. If the pellet size is too large, the fish will sometimes find them hard, and difficult to manage, or unnatural in their mouth, and reject them.
My 2 African knife fish took 3 months to start eating Prima granules. It just takes time and getting it too them, maybe seeing the chalceus absolutely ravage the granules got them into it, they still don't take them off the surface so i have to pre-sink them.
Also another off topic,
RD.
, Have you kept African knives (xenomystus nigri)? Or could you recommend any diets for them? Im currently using Tetra Prima granules and bloodworm every other day
Also another off topic,
RD.
, Have you kept African knives (xenomystus nigri)? Or could you recommend any diets for them? Im currently using Tetra Prima granules and bloodworm every other day