Recently I converted my mono to mysis shrimp cubes using the method Dieselmack has in his sticky at the top of this forum. It worked well until I screwed it up by changing to cubes of beefheart due to inconvienent mysis shrimp cube availability. During the successful days I was still throwing him feeders often enough that he never really made more than two days without live food, so the instinct never really left. In all he was tearing up the cubes for about two weeks along with a sparse amount of my remaining feeders. I ran out of feeders about the same time I ran out of shrimp cubes. When I went to the store I picked up the substitute beefheart when I couldn't find the shrimp, because I figured that the familiar shape of the cube would be acceptable and maybe even beneficial variety for the fishes diet. It wasn't, and the fish spent about a week hitting the cubes and donating them to his tank mates. After stubbornly fighting to push the beef heart for about 5 days, I picked up some live food to hold him off until I could find some shrimp cubes. Now I have the shrimp cubes and he won't take them either. I have been trying much longer than it originally took him to figure it out so i'm worried the whole process may have been corrupted by a sequence of untimely mistakes. Has anyone ever dealt with this and is it correctable? Repeating the process is becoming costly and isn't getting any results so if anybody could help, what are some of my options? Thanks to anyone who can help.
. Piranha's are mainly scavengers anyways, no wonder it was easy to get them on pellets. All my peacock bass are on dead food because I don't want to take the chance, and plus. I do not cave into feeding feeders.