Pellet training

[Chizzle]

So usually to pellet train my bass i follow gangsters method of mashing in pellets with bloodworms. Only problem is the azul i got from rapps wont even touch bloodworms so I started him with guppies and got him onto cut shrimp. A few days ago i started stuffing pellets into pieces of shrimp and the pbass was munching on that. I'm getting pretty tired of defrosting/peeling shrimp every morning and night. Today i decided not to feed shrimp and give thirds of massivore. The pbass would hit it once it hit the water, spit it out, then hit it again, then spit it out and having it land on the bottom.

My question is tomorrow should I.....

A. Go back to stuffing shrimp with pellets and slowly increase pellet to shrimp ratio

or

B. Only put in massivore/starve him till he accepts it, he's not super skinny anymore and has put on some serious weight so I know he's not going to die on me if i starve him for a few days.

Usually I am opposed to starving, but I am not liking having to defrost/peel shrimp everyday. Pellets are sooo much more convenient.

 

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I am trying to pellet train my orinos with no success to, I tried stuffing cut up tilapia with pellets and they learned how to hit the pellet stuffed tilapia and spit out the pellet while keeping the tilapia in there mouth.

I will be watching this one for ideas

 

[Boogiemn1]

Lol my wc rio metas were doing the same thing lol. I added a another bass mono that was a slob (are anything that hit the water) soon enough the orinos followed suit. Now they eat first question it later

 

[Chizzle]

tried again this morning and it attacked the first piece, spat it out. Then ignored my other 3 attemps which were spaced out by around 5 minutes each. Might just put him in my 150 along with the other azul and 2 monos and hope he learns from them. I'll give it one more shot tonight, then I'm going to move him.

 

[Divantie]

Why pellet train?

 

[jay_leask]

just starve them, they are bound to take the pellets. just give it some time.

 

[Houdini89]

Gangsters method works.....I converted my orino's in only three weeks.

 

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Gangsters method works.....I converted my orino's in only three weeks.

Is Gangsters method anything like Deiselmacs ?
If not do you have a link?

 

[MN Fish]

Starve them they will eat.

 

[jayclarke]

I was having the same problem with my azul. I was dropping spats in for the zullie and massivore for the orinos after a few days the azul started taking the odd massivore.
Every fish has its own aquired tastes some will take pellets readily others refuse completely. Good luck.