training jardini to eat hikari stick

[garydh]

Try live mealworms...good for small arowana, and he will beef up quickly...try to feed one right in front of its face....Its easy to get him to eat sticks once it starts eating mealworms. hikari food sticks look similar and it should start hitting the sticks pretty soon after.


Edit: This is not my opinion, this was told to me by my local LFS store owner when I bought my first Jardini three weeks ago. He was three inches when I got him and he ate the mealworms right away. The next week he was eating the food sticks. Now he is eating both for his diet.

so your diet for your jardini is mixing around with liveworms and sticks??

 

[CrankBait]

so your diet for your jardini is mixing around with liveworms and sticks??

Yes...i start by feeding him a couple live mealworms and then throw in a bunch of hikari food sticks. Also freeze dried krill and bloodworms on occasion.

 

[Ianlei]

I've been feeding my jar hikari stick seen the first day I got him(3yrs) with no problem n feed him fishes once a week

 

[garydh]

I've been feeding my jar hikari stick seen the first day I got him(3yrs) with no problem n feed him fishes once a week

wow lucky you... save all the hassle..

 

[Cheesetian]

I know of a fella' who starved his RTG for about 2 months. Still no luck. Some fishes just REFUSE to eat prepared foods.

 

[garydh]

I know of a fella' who starved his RTG for about 2 months. Still no luck. Some fishes just REFUSE to eat prepared foods.

2mths?!?! that's gona be so torturing for the owner... i manage to get it on krill just after 1 day of starving when i just got him so intially i thought it's going to be as easy as that when trying for sticks... now i'm considering whether if i should let it go bigger 1st before trying to train it..... dilemma...