Starving my Jardini
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My arow is getting really grumpy at this point. He's taking his hunger pains on the Bichir and the Chocolate cichlid. I broke down and gave him 1 cricket so he'd calm down, but back to dropping a few pellets in the tank and watching him eyeball it and then swim away.
I'm really starting to hate this guy lol. My last Arow ate pellets almost immediately.
I'm really starting to hate this guy lol. My last Arow ate pellets almost immediately.
Why dont y'all do it the easy way?
Give the fish as much as it wants of the foods it does want - this will expand the stomach, so when it's slightly not full the fish will feel hungry. The more a fish eats (or person for that matter) the bigger its stomach, so the hungrier it gets between meals. Keep it as full as you can and it will try anything you want to top itself up. And it wont mind either, as its getting its favourite food everyday. Fill it up on its favourite food in the morning, then let it top up on pellets throughout the day. It will spend all day getting hungrier and hungrier, and will start eating pellets in no time. Then you can increase the amount of pellets.
The reason they wont eat pellets isnt because they dont like them, its because they dont know they're food. They're waiting for 'food' (the stuff you WERE feeding them). Get them full every day, then every time you go to see them, give them something to eat. Get them used to this and they'll know you're feeding them, and what you've just dropped in is food. They'll soon eat anything you want.
This will work. There is absolutely no need to starve a fish.
Give the fish as much as it wants of the foods it does want - this will expand the stomach, so when it's slightly not full the fish will feel hungry. The more a fish eats (or person for that matter) the bigger its stomach, so the hungrier it gets between meals. Keep it as full as you can and it will try anything you want to top itself up. And it wont mind either, as its getting its favourite food everyday. Fill it up on its favourite food in the morning, then let it top up on pellets throughout the day. It will spend all day getting hungrier and hungrier, and will start eating pellets in no time. Then you can increase the amount of pellets.
The reason they wont eat pellets isnt because they dont like them, its because they dont know they're food. They're waiting for 'food' (the stuff you WERE feeding them). Get them full every day, then every time you go to see them, give them something to eat. Get them used to this and they'll know you're feeding them, and what you've just dropped in is food. They'll soon eat anything you want.
This will work. There is absolutely no need to starve a fish.
This makes no sense at all. The more food the aro has in storage equals to the longer it goes without being hungry. How would giving it more food, make it more hungry. This only leads to you having to starve LONGER to get hungry making this idea a big waste of your time. This is equivalent to saying that you will be more hungry at lunch if you were to stuff yourself during breakfast...and they obviously know pellets are food if they are attempting to eat them and are chewing them up into peices, along with the fact that its quite common where some aros just come in already willing to eat pellets...blackghostuk;4067902; said:
Fractal;4060482; said:
I think im being too soft on mines. first attempt i did it for 3-4 days. the second attempt is for 5 days. I have one jar that will eat pellets, the other aros will not. Im gonna cease on starving them, im gonna make them get use to floating foods first before i get them on pellets.
Yah my second attempt failed miserably. I'm going to feed him the rest of the crickets and then try to starve him again.
The only problem is I feed bloodworms and Shrimp to my Datnoids and he'll literally dive bomb the shrimp if he's hungry enough.
I'm such a pansy when it comes to starving my fish. I give in all too easily.
The only problem is I feed bloodworms and Shrimp to my Datnoids and he'll literally dive bomb the shrimp if he's hungry enough.
I'm such a pansy when it comes to starving my fish. I give in all too easily.
