Peacock Bass Diet

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Jack Dempsey
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About a month ago I picked up a 2 1/2 inch peacock bass from a nearby fish store. It was really healthy and I had an empty 75 gallon aquarium so I thought I would grow it out and then move it to a bigger aquarium. As expected it took about 4 days for it to start eating. I tried to feed it pellets at first because I know that that is the cheapest and highest in nutrition food. He simply would not eat it. I tried and tried until finally I gave him some frozen blood worms. Of course he destroyed it because juvenile pbs like blood worms and he didn't eat in a few days. So I have been feeding him blood worms for the whole time I have had him and now I want to get him off of it because I want to find something more nutritious. I have fed him one or two tiny feeder guppies that I got and quarantined. So I could essentially feed him two types of food but I know that other fish are not the best either. Many people will say continue to try pellets but I have tried everyday for the past month. It just doesn't work. I have also tried different brands of pellets. I want to know a good food for pb. If pellets are the only solution then how do I convert him to them? Or, should I give him time and continue to feed him blood worms? I want to know some opinions.
 
Thawed silversides work,as do juvenile earthworms, pinhead crickets, mosquitofish
(Which can be kept in tubs without filtration, just use plants for filtration).

Try the bait and switch method, first offer him live mosquitofish by hand, then switch to dead silversides after a few days, eventually he'll eat anything from out of your hands
 
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I think you're going to get a better response if you posted this in the cichla forum. They already have a sticky on converting to pellets.
 
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Thawed silversides work,as do juvenile earthworms, pinhead crickets, mosquitofish
(Which can be kept in tubs without filtration, just use plants for filtration).

Try the bait and switch method, first offer him live mosquitofish by hand, then switch to dead silversides after a few days, eventually he'll eat anything from out of your hands
Thanks for the help man!
 
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