Seems like he is just a finicky eater. If he doesn't eat pellets even after you soak it in garlic guard or blood worms then one more option you can try is hikari vibra bites. This will be in between step for him to move from blood worms to pellets.
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He would not eat the nls and he did not care that I soaked the pellets in garlic guard. I did find out that if I fed him tilapia that he would eat it.
He won't be healthy on just raw food. You will need to get him on pellets and might have to starve him a little after his healthy. Meanwhile try the hikari vibra bites.
Not sure how much of this will be absorbed by talipa, since it's not a dry food. Just talipa and bloodworms might be too meaty but may be enough for fish to recover.
My 4" Sanchezi before he dieded. I miss him.
He was a mean little bugger.
Fed exclusively on Tilapia soaked in Vitachem.
So for an update. He will eat the pellets soaked in the garlic guard. But he doesnt go after them excitedly. I have found if I leave them in there by his next feeding all of them have been eaten. So that's a bright side. It is a huge improvement from the 2 pellets a day since i drop in about 8 per feeding so hes up to at least 16 per day.
That's great. Don't feed him blood worms till he starts eating pellets excitedly. This is a big achievement. Congrats.
