Pellet training...advise please

[blacksnow]

I starved my cichla monoculus for 4 days, and got the largest (i believe male) out of my 3 to take them. The next day he devoured them as they hit water!

The other 2 have not eaten for 6 days now! I still can't get them to take a pellet. They show no interest! Even with the other one eating them.

They had eaten mostly frozen & live black worms since I got them. I've also fed them krill, and brine shrimp.

Should I feed them black worm & go back to starving?

Or should I hold off on training them till they are a bit larger? I believe they are about 4"

Here is a video to see the largest eating his first pellet, and to gauge the size
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[haynchinook334]

It's not the matter of starving the bass!!!
Start at a single spot of the fish tank and feed them from there. Keep them In that area of feeding. Right or left of the tank, it's your chose.
I like to feed them by the out let of the FX5, to simulate a bug or something that hit the water and stuck in the current. keep a lot of fish that will grow the same rate or slower that are top feeders.

Now......that's for top feeding. Sinking is another story.

 

[StripeGirl]

i think the song is killing his appetite.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

lol ^

get them feeding in one spot of the tank... when they are hitting anything that touches the waters surface in that spot, then you can attempt to splash a pellet against the water.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

lol ^

get them feeding in one spot of the tank... when they are hitting anything that touches the waters surface in that spot, then you can attempt to splash a pellet against the water.

 

[Angler]

i think the song is killing his appetite.

Don't you be dissin' All That Remains!