warmouth eating habits

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mullinax4988

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I have a very young warmouth who i desperately want to eat pellets and just wont, because it was too small i had to put it in my tank of feeders and it ate all of those, and it will eat freeze dried shrimp but i've tried all different sizes, sinking and floating, pellets, and nothing, should i even expect it to eat pellets when its only about an 1 1/4 inch?

thanks
 
im trying to be patient, it hasnt eaten in about 10 days, although it still looks great, and unfortunately my other fish is a pickerel that i gave up long ago on trying to get it to switch from live feeders,

thanks though
 
ive trained fish small as an inch to eat pellets it just take some time, some times flakes are a good starting point. you could also get it to know when your feeding it with the foods it already eats. train it to come up and feed as you drop it in then slowly add the food you want it to eat.
 
I agree with everyone.. patience is best.
When I first started keeping sunfish (redbreast) it took me close to 2 months to convert the first one. I decided to keep another one - this one took about 3 weeks. After being in the same tank a while, I added a few more redbreasts and a green, and they were eating pellets within 36 hours of being added to the tank.
So you see, it definatley helps to have already trained fish.

Also, try mixing the pellets with bloodworms or something. Eventually lower the the bloodworm count. It also helps to let the little guy be hungry for a while.. Though it may sound cruel, if he gets hungry enough.. he'll eat.
 
All my natives eat pellets, once or twice a week, the rest of the time, they get shrimp, bloodworms, white mosquito larvae, krill, earthworms, feeder minnows, etc. I dont feed 6 times a day so when the chow wagon rolls up they have learned they better chow down or it is gonna get pretty hungry out there before next feeding time. And when its pellets they eat pellets.
 
i have a warmouth a little bigger than that and he's about 1 1/2 or 2", he's eating shrimp pellets, not a lot but he has ate 2 today. only had him about 48 hours he was caught out of my pond. do you have a picture of yours, just curious
 
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