It took awhile to get him off of feeders, I would start by dropping in one feeder at a time to get his attaintion he will hit the feeders right when they hit the water, once he started that I would mix shrimp meat in the process. At first he would spit the shrimp out, then I did not feed for a day and I started the next day with shrimp he started eating the shrimp. right away now he hits shrimp like there live food one note this was a time process I had to repeat it sevral times