Weaning Fish to Floating Pellets?
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it was about 1/2" long .. just figured they ate it .. there was 6 in there ... now there is 3 left .. 2 big ones .. and the one smaller one that was under the rock ..ibz_rg;3533992; said:
Well they finally started to bite at it. I mixed them in with the bloodworms. The only problem is, they don't even identify it as food. They get it in their mouths for about 3 seconds and then spit it out. Seems like it's hopeless. 
the will eat .. i almost never hear of fish starving to death .. 99% of the time the fish will come around and take the food .. just stick with it ..ibz_rg;3539838; said:Well they finally started to bite at it. I mixed them in with the bloodworms. The only problem is, they don't even identify it as food. They get it in their mouths for about 3 seconds and then spit it out. Seems like it's hopeless.
I've also had luck useing that method w/ various other frozen foods, bloodworms, brine, silversides seem to work best though ( prolly cause they are the smelliest) At this point i'll agree w/ Iffrat if they are mouthing it they have identified it as a plausable food source. They may not like the texture or simply once they get past the initial bloodworm taste not like the pellets taste. You can try other pelleted foods as well. It can take weeks to teach a fish to take pellets depending how long they've been feed other things.
Their entire lives (6 months max). Would it be bad to just keep them on a rotated diet of other foods that aren't pellets?
