Transitioning fish from live food to pellets.

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Answer was: "And you have to force it by starvation." Not as fleshed out as it has become, but a good starting point to begin researching.

Do I need to know tank size? No. It should be about a fraction of the water volume that the fish was removed from.
 
You can not justify starving anything to make it do something you want it to do. No matter how many big words you want to use. I love this hobby to and i try to make a fishes tank as close to there habitat as possible. And then feed them what they would naturally eat. The only things I can not reproduce is the volume of actual water they would have in nature and the exact species of fish they would consume in nature. And thats for my amazon tank. For my native tank, I can give them the exact species they would eat in the wild. I just can not give them as big of a water volume. -------It is very unresponsible to take a fish from the wild and force it to do these things. But on top of that starving the fish to make it do what we want is just plan crazy. If this was a dog or cat, you could be arrested by animal patrol for such activities. But for a fish sadly people like you can get away with it. I can only hope you get to realize what you are doing to these animals. Next time if you are not up taking good care of a animal, take the hook out and toss it back in.:(
 
Fish don't eat a good meal every single day in the wild.

Why don't you guys just help this guy out instead of criticize him for trying to feed his fish a better diet than earthworms. And a dog/wolf i bet you wont eat every single day in the wild. this guy is int starving the fish for weeks, many people fast their fish for a couple of days a week.
 
haloman02;2805659; said:
Fish don't eat a good meal every single day in the wild.

Why don't you guys just help this guy out instead of criticize him for trying to feed his fish a better diet than earthworms. And a dog/wolf i bet you wont eat every single day in the wild. this guy is int starving the fish for weeks, many people fast their fish for a couple of days a week.
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Ding ding,

We have a winner. Fish will frequently fast for days at a time in the wild even when food is available. Fish will often quit feeding for periods because of changes in weather conditions, high pressure, etc..and MANY species of fish will fast the entire time they guard a nest of young, which could be for weeks.

My interest in getting the fish to eat pellets isn't for my convenience, as I will continue to give him live foods as treats, but because I want him to have optimal health.
 
optimal health would be there natural diet. There are not any pellets floating around in the lake or pond it came from. And pellets do not grow on tree's.-----------and about wild animals fasting for days, who controls that ? man or the animal itself. So yes as long as you do your part and provide it with a daily feeding of a natural source, and it does not eat for days. Then you have no control over that.
 
If you don't have any help to offer, then just leave the guy alone. You've said what you've wanted to, right?
 
um wow, some members a little on their high horse today? i don't think there are ich medications and such in the wild either but i'm sure you've used those on your fish. not the same but close to it by what you're saying.

and to try to help, keep offering pellets and eventually it should come around, you can try starving but my fish took pellets eventually without using that method. (but i never tried sunfish)
 
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