Tips to convert hujeta gars off live?

[Aw3s0m3]

I've had these guys for about 6 months and I've tried starving them then feeding them tilapia earthworms and pellets and they don't even look at them. I eventually started feeding them feeders again after they didn't eat for 2 months. Do any of you have any advice on how I can get them off live, I want them to eventually start eating floating carnisticks. Thanks


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[F1 VET]

I've had these guys for about 6 months and I've tried starving them then feeding them tilapia earthworms and pellets and they don't even look at them. I eventually started feeding them feeders again after they didn't eat for 2 months. Do any of you have any advice on how I can get them off live, I want them to eventually start eating floating carnisticks. Thanks


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2 months and no luck? Wow! I had a huejta for awhile and he was always on feeders then I was lazy and missed feeding for a few days dropped a pellet in and he nabbed it up. My guy was 6" TL.

I'd say just buy a load of guppies, like a few dozen. If you have a extra tank let them breed and feed them good pellets or flake food then your huejta will always have a constant free food source that's healthy with no risk of parasites! You can even breed them in the same tank!



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[xraycer]

What brand of pellets?

I just got my bluegill on pellets. Stopped feeding for a week; dropped in various brands of pellets I feed my other fish with; he sucked it in and then spits it right back out; last week, I purchased Hikari Carnivore; dropped it in and he inhaled it and didn't spit it out; dropped in a few more, and he went right after them and kept it in; been feeding him everyday now with the HC. Glad he's off the worms and getting more nutrients now.

 

[Chicxulub]

My old cten would eat live crickets. After he was used to eating off if there surface, I let him go hungry until he ate hikari jumbo carnisticks.

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[Aw3s0m3]

Thanks for the tips guys!

F1: my guys are about 7-8" each and it would take way too many guppies to fill them up. Plus they're in a tank with 2 H. armatus and 6 medium to large sized bichirs so even 1000 guppies wouldn't last long at all.

Xraycer: I actually incorporate massivore into my bichir's diet and the hujeta's don't even look at them. I prefer to get them on floating carnisticks so that they don't have to compete with the armatus for food.

Chicxulub: I never thought about that! I'll have to try it. Hopefully they eat the crickets and then carnisticks if I'm lucky.




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