Pellet training a jardini arowana?

  • We are currently upgrading MFK. thanks! -neo
Seperate the locahes. Feed him his regular food till he is satiated. Then starve the hell out of him till he eats the pellets. Ever ate a big meal at dinner and woke up the next morning starving... same idea. Offer him onlypellets and only a few (1-2) at first, then scoop them out if he refuses. Once he starts eating them don't feed him till he is full of pellets. Gradually offer more each day. Do not offer him any other food after you train him on pellets. If you must... maybe once or twice a month give him a treat.
 
I've noticed that having fish that eat pellets in the same tank helps teach them. I also throw in a few pellets along with its normal diet. They will eventually grab the pellets but spit them out. That's when I start putting less of the normal foods and gradually add more pellets. It takes time but hopefully you'll get it. I've got a jardini and black both on hikari sticks. The hikari food sticks seemed to be the easiest food to train. Good luck

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As stupid as it seems aggressively throwing pellets at water surface like it was something that used to get mine more interested
 
mix it in with his current food... is the way I did it.

I feed mine shrimp and crickets... and when I wanted her to get on the sticks, I would just toss in the crickets with a couple of sticks... and after a few weeks of that, she would take the sticks by themselves.
 
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