Tiger Shovelnose
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Very difficult to train to eat anything. Most people just starve them and when they are hungry enough they will eat whatever is availible. This method would also require that you don't have any fish in the tank smaller than their size. They have huge mouths and will eat anything smaller than them if they are hungry enough. I have not seen too many tsn that would eat pellets from the top. Sinking pellets are a different story. I've had some sucess with them eating sinking carnivore, and cichlid pellets. Also algae waffers sometimes too. So go sinking and starve if that's what you really want him to eat. I personally favor blood worms when small, then krill, then shrimp, and fish fillets when they get larger.
yoimb0b;1069703; said:
Definitely that's how I start off all my cats. Bloodworms are like baby fish steroids!
Thanx to all of you for your replies!!! He was 4 inches a week ago, now 5. Eating minnows, that I feed my musky's. But I want to train him to eat sinking pellets. I will do what some of you suggested, and grow him a bit, and then starve him till he eats the pellets.
Mine would die before he eats pellets. Its just not happening. I'm thankful I got him on shrimp and smelts 
and that was no easy task.
bob
and that was no easy task.bob
Yeah, some fish are just like that. But in my life I've gotten Largemouth Bass and Peacock Bass to eat floating pellets, so anything possible! LOL! I'm hoping I can get him to eat sinking shrimp pellets.Bgonz;1085251;1085251 said:Mine would die before he eats pellets. Its just not happening. I'm thankful I got him on shrimp and smelts
bob
I feed my TSN pieces of Talipia fillets, and Hikari Massivore Delite sinking pellets. He attacks the pellets as if they were alive, even more so than the fish. He will eat the pellets even when his gut is full of fish. I have yet to find any kind of sinking pellet he wouldn't eat, but I haven't seen him eat anything that wasn't on the bottom. I've never tried live food though.
I guess all fish are different, but I bet your TSN would eat Hikari Massivore Delite, or Sinking Carnivore pellets.
I guess all fish are different, but I bet your TSN would eat Hikari Massivore Delite, or Sinking Carnivore pellets.
Thanks for the info, that's good to know that they will eat pellets. So far mine hasn't, but I want to get him a little bigger than his current 5 inches before I try the starvation treatment. Right now all he will eat is minnows. Hey, what temp do they like???Blub Blub;1086326;1086326 said: