Paratilapia Bleekeri

[cichlid savage]

Mine eats whatever i put in the tank. Pellets, Tubifex worms, Flakes

 

[YOOPER]

Is he alone in the tank? If so he might not feel any pressure to eat when he has no competition. Try some giant dannies along with the starvation, he might come around.

 

[Rass]

Thanks for the replies.

 

[USMCtanker]

u might haft to starve him a little and mix something with the worms,

 

[Rass]

I think I will try the gut-loading idea. It seems like a lot more work than just throwing them in though.

 

[riversting]

Is he alone in the tank? If so he might not feel any pressure to eat when he has no competition. Try some giant dannies along with the starvation, he might come around.

ive actually used thids strategy and it worked.

mine is also an adult polleni which i acquired just recently. He only eats superworms, atleast once in 2 days, and definitely no good since that will result to deficiences later on.
i tried fasting him for days that turned weeks and still he wouldn't touch anything, only superworms. that was when he's all alone in his tank.

i tried adding a tankmate, a tinfoil barb, known target / dither fish prowess, (in his 35 gallon tank) that would eat the pellets that i drop.
slowly for about 2 weeks,the tinfoil's eagerness made my polleni try some pellets, only to be coughed out a second later. i succesfully had him tried and eat the pellets when i finally transferred him to a 75 gallon tank with 5 tinfoil barbs, 5 inchers, and a pair of loiselle, 5 inchers too. competition to get food was to stiff that it prompt him to eat whatever brand of pellet i drop. it moved his instinct to compete.