pellet food

[tothna]

Whats the deal with pellet food? my fish go crazy over flakes but they ignore the pellets. It seems like most of it ends up stuck to the filter intake.
Is this normal?

 

[piranha45]

its perfectly normal for your fish to be selective feeders.

you can break them down to eat whatever you wish them to eat, by simply starving them for an extended amount of time (from a week to well over a month). Works for me every time, regardless of what fish specie it is.

 

[DeLgAdO]

what kind of fish do you have?

you might have to starve them until they give into pellets

 

[tothna]

I quit feeding them flakes about two weeks ago, its just been earthworms and pellets and the smaller fish don't seem to eat the worms so I'd think they would mounge on the pellets

 

[tothna]

Ive got some small african cichlids in one tank and dempseys and green terrors and a convict in another, it seems like the south americans eat the pellets more so than the africans