Ornate and pellets??

[hoosier]

Anyone have their ornate trained to eat pellets? How picky are they when it comes to food?

 

[Oddball]

All of my polys will take sinking earthworm sticks, sinking staple sticks, dense culture sinking crumbles, and commercial sinking catfish pellets. There was no training involved. I just started dropping them in and 7 different species went for them.

 

[grmanrocks]

i got my ornate onto sinking carni pellets..,hes 8 inches liong and gets 14 a night in addition to his shrimp and bloodworms

 

[hoosier]

how long did it take for it to accept the sinking pellets?

 

[StiffMeister]

my ornates accept any pellet i drop in, be it carnivorous or algae wafers. no practice involved, the first time i dropped them for my plecos the ornates went straight at them.

 

[grmanrocks]

it only took a few days to get mine on pelets, he was on an almost pure bloodowrm diet as a baby and i wanted to liven things up a bit..........but scicne i have started feeding him hikari pellets he has shown a increased groth rate...

 

[elykyelsna]

mine will only eat frozen bloodworms or live fish

 

[JCA]

yeah no training involved. both my ornate and senegal take everything i put in the tank including pellets.

 

[baracuda]

I have mine on hikari pellets sinking or floating. Their not too picky so far my ornate has taken everything. Took them right away so good luck with urs.

 

[RoseFishWatcher]

The bigger of my two bichirs eats shrimp pellets. He's the only fish in the tank who gets them, he grabs them so fast. I dropped two in yesterday for my plecos, but the bichir got BOTH before anyone else had a nibble. My littler bichir will eat them, but is too slow to beat the other one