What are you Feeding your jar?

[Hao]

The best bet with Jars is to starve them for several days and then try a good pellet. Like any fish ,best to get them on a staple pellet. If it doesn't except them remove and try again the next day. Don't worry if it takes a while as they can go weeks without food. It will take the pellets eventually. A healthy jar won't starve itself to death. Try Hikari Massivore. A little expensive but worth it. Market prawns are fine, large earth worms, meal worms, freshwater fish fillets. Pellets should make up about 70-80% of its diet IMO.

no need to train on pellets,you can just try freeze dried krills much easier

 

[powerkit]

try mixing his new food with the bloodworm for a lil while, maybe he will get the idea. This worked very good for my huge green sev. when I got her, she'd only eat pellets, but I enjoy giving my babies a varied diet, so I took some table shrimp, thawed them and packed some of her pellets in them. in order to get her pellets she had to dig through the shrimp, now she completely looks forward to any shrimp, squid or krill I offer her!

 

[vaine111]

I feed my jardini a staple of raw shrimp. You can leave the shell on or take it off. I started taking the shell off cause the other fish would leave the pieces of shell on the bottom of the tank but the jardini would eat the shell. Tear off the tail either way you do it.

My jardini is about 9 inches now and I recentlly started stuffing half pieces of shrimp with massivore pellets and he gobbles them down. Shrimp as a staple is an awesome diet cause you can stuff the shrimp with other things so he can get his varied diet even though he thinks it's just the shrimp he's eating.

Edit... He loves bloodworms too.

 

[bigdaddycool]

just starve it and be patient - when my jar was new he only ate superworms. any feeders, sticks, etc that were thrown in just went to waste. the key is to starve and try once a day.

i have weaned him off worms and he is adjusted to eating live feeders and the occasional crayfish. with all the health issues though i am shifting to TetraArowana soon and will only use live as a once a week treat.

cheers and good luck with your jar!

 

[KMKN]

feed shrimp and pellets

 

[hagaskins]

It seems several people have similar questions in mind. I have my first jar it eats goldfish never seen it try a pellet yet. two 3in oscars are thr tankmates. i will try shrimp, worms, lizards etc. does anyone have any 5in to 8 in for sale. would love another color

 

[Hao]

dont feed it goldfish not good for them

 

[Gshock]

no need to train on pellets,you can just try freeze dried krills much easier

I wonder whats better, pellets, or krill? Anyways, if you can get it on pellets and shrimp, then skip krill, complete wast of money. Just starve and only offer pellets, plain and simple. Dont stop after a couple days becuase you think it'll starve to death, they can go for a surprisingly long time without food, but usually they'll take it in a few days.

 

[Hao]

I wonder whats better, pellets, or krill? Anyways, if you can get it on pellets and shrimp, then skip krill, complete wast of money. Just starve and only offer pellets, plain and simple. Dont stop after a couple days becuase you think it'll starve to death, they can go for a surprisingly long time without food, but usually they'll take it in a few days.

i dont really care if my aros eat pellets or not b.c i feed them a vary diet so dont needa worry

 

[Gshock]

i dont really care if my aros eat pellets or not b.c i feed them a vary diet so dont needa worry

Thats great, but we're trying to figure out what to do with a jar that wont eat anything but bloodworms, point right now is what is the BEST food to get it on, and not, what is the best diet to introduce right now. Getting it to eat just ONE thing good and getting it nice and fat is priority, introducing many other types of foods can come later. You cant just introduce like 5 new foods at the same time.