Silver won't eat Pellets/sticks anymore.
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i dont know, but i have the same problem with my jar. he just dioes not want to eat sticks at all. he just chews them up and tries to eat them, but most of it comes out of his mouth in the process. i even tries to break them in half for him.(maybe because he's only 4 1/2 inches long).
Did you change the brand at all? My jar will eat any damn thing that hits the water, but my silver seems to be selective with pellet foods. So far, he will only eat Hikari...anything else and he spits it out.
You can try packing market shrimp with pellets, that way you're giving him what he wants while also giving him a high quality pellet staple as well.
You can try packing market shrimp with pellets, that way you're giving him what he wants while also giving him a high quality pellet staple as well.
What I did with my aro when he was boycotting food was changed his environment a little. Put some floating plants around the top or something, also to the person who had trouble feeding the jar pellets try soaking them a little first so they have a softer coating. That makes my silver go for them every time.
My black started boycotting the sticks after I started feeding him krill/silversides, so what I did was just cut the krill in half and push the stick inside of it. This also makes the krill float.
My Jar never ate sticks or pellets till today!! For some wierd reason he don't like those things!! I had him since he was about 3 or 4 inches or so, and now he's about 13". He eats feeders, crayfish and loves crickets. Ohh, he also likes algae wafers, he attacks them before it hits the bottom of the tank. It's meant for my 10" pleco.
I have a 26" Silver that I have had since he was 4" and in all that time the fish has maybe eaten 10 pellets. 
At least this one is a real stickler for meat. He gets bait shrimp (whole with spines removed), raw market shrimp (cleaned), but mostly Smelt, which are pretty cheap and come frozen and cleaned at the local fish market. We had calamari (squid) rings in pasta the other night, so I gave him a few pre-cooked rings and he really liked those as well.
You may have to face the fact that your fish will not be happy with prepared foods. Being a seafood lover myself, it's hard to blame him!
At least this one is a real stickler for meat. He gets bait shrimp (whole with spines removed), raw market shrimp (cleaned), but mostly Smelt, which are pretty cheap and come frozen and cleaned at the local fish market. We had calamari (squid) rings in pasta the other night, so I gave him a few pre-cooked rings and he really liked those as well. You may have to face the fact that your fish will not be happy with prepared foods. Being a seafood lover myself, it's hard to blame him!