Risk of pellet training for young aro

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give it time your arowana will eat pellets. i feed my arowana with arowana sticks but sometimes shrimps/worms and now he is around 18" :)
 
Try a marinade. Find out what he likes better, shrimp or tilapia. Make a broth out of pellets. Soak the pellets in a little water, when they get soggy, smash it up. Now u have a broth. And marinade shrimp or talapia. Keep it in the refrigerator of course. And feed him for a few weeks. This way he aquires a taste for pellets. Then starve for a few days and drop in some pellets

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I dont want him on mp. Just straight up Pellets. I figure its better doing it young now than later down the line when its more stubborn. Hes always been on mealworms and maybe a few roaches. He spits out the frozen bloodworms.

ill try soaking the pellets to see if it helps


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The idea is to somehow let them have a taste of pellets.

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The aro now bites it a lil.

I think if u put the mealworms n pellet same time, so now it knows they r both food.


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Just try stop feeding him for a max of 48hrs. It won't kill him as long as he is healthy. Then try pellets

I stopped feeding my 3.5-4" for that amount of time. Now he's pellet trained

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sevank21 said:
Just try stop feeding him for a max of 48hrs. It won't kill him as long as he is healthy. Then try pellets

I stopped feeding my 3.5-4" for that amount of time. Now he's pellet trained

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I was about to do that but my aro injured his mouth prob by hitting something so im back feeding it again. Will give it a try.


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Fifth day. Still chews & spits it out. Im trying this approach, throwing in one roach & pellets together at the same time so it dont starve to death & will recognize pellets as good also

Any suggestions?


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Pellet Training my 5-6inch jardini. Its house w/ 7 med size clown loaches in 55gallon. Running on eheim 2217 & uv ster. Temp 84

Start date:4/18/12 (last feeding was tues night 4/17/12 ate like 10 small roaches)

4/18 Wed: morning/night spits it out. 20% water change at noon

4/19 Thurs: morning time spits it out.*

4//20 Fri: morning shows no interest, getting aggressive w/ Clon loaches as they go up to steal pellets. Attempts will b made night time now bc of the aggression toward CL during morning active hours. Night time attempt failed. Bite & spits once or twice
4/21 Sat: morning,No attempt made on feeding morning.*
 
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