Pellet Training

[Horiyoshi III]

Make sure your parameters are dead on first.

When hunger hits your poly, it WILL eat the pellets.YOU have to hold out.
Not easy for a new aquarist.

 

[V1xIII]

My senegal loved hikari sinking carnivore pellets as soon as I got them. Before I got those, he was eating frozen bloodworms and mysis shrimp with the occasional sinking catfish pellet.

He also recently enjoyed some zebra danios lol.

 

[matejakezman]

My senegal loved hikari sinking carnivore pellets as soon as I got them. Before I got those, he was eating frozen bloodworms and mysis shrimp with the occasional sinking catfish pellet.

He also recently enjoyed some zebra danios lol.

i went to a lfs and asked for sinking pellet for bichirs and the guy sold me a packet of hikari algae wafer.

 

[polypterus77]

that people from fish stores don't know anything about fish, they just want the sales comision

 

[matejakezman]

and the sad thing is i have no fish that eat algae wafer.

anyway, my bichirs still aint eating their pellets.
threw in 4 pellets before i left for work and came back only to see the pellets untouched.

 

[polypterus77]

well, dont get any algae eaters (or anything else) from that store ok

 

[davina]

what kind of pellets are we talking about anyway?
worms pellets?
coz i tried dried tubifex worm cubes (for chicilds actually) and they dont even touch it.

it would be nice if my polys could eat pellet

 

[jerrytsk]

brother,if can plz use brand hikari for polypterus pellet.they very like brand hikari and plz c my group of polypterus very love to eat them.

 

[Krogs]

Small, sinking carnivore pellets work well for me.

Another idea might be to mix small amounts of a food they will take with those you want to introduce so as to make the new food smell like the good food and encourage consumption. And from there ween to the pellets.

 

[Capeace13]

Mines always liked the carnivore pellets, just got some massivore to try just have to keep the flowerhorn from eating them 1st.