Who's Got Picky Eaters?

[Stump]

The only bichir I have that actually took some work to get on to pellets is my Lapradei. She used to only eat chopped up shrimp and tilapia fillets (both still only once in a while), but would only eat in complete darkness, or if she was really really hungry, when no one was looking.

To get her on to the pellets she eats now, I had to teach her that "lights on" isn't a bad thing. To do that, I would make sure to feed them at night, right before I turned the lights off, and I wouldn't turn the lights off until the food was gone. After a couple weeks of that mixed with feeding as soon as the lights came on in the morning, I finally have her willingly eating the pellets with lights on and me watching.




Who else has had some finicky eaters?

 

[SnaKeheAdSrAwSomE]

hmm, my bichirs eat anything

 

[phillydog1958]

i just got my bichir earlier this week. he's eating shrimp pellets, which surprised me since the lfs was feeding him live shrimp. he is a little shy, by nature. but, today i fed my fish around 11 am and with the light on. he actually came out and started chomping on the pellets. he's doing well.

 

[tcarswell]

In one of my big tanks I got a delhezi ,senegal ,ornate , and two endli's. Only the ornate eats massivore?!

 

[devder1]

Not right now but I'm gettig some real predators soon and I have no idea what that will hold

 

[LBathory]

almost all my fish are on pellets. My only picky eater is one of my 9" IT's. he is the only member of that tank that still doesn't understand the concept of pellets, mind you, there is a second 9" IT, tigrinus and marble motoro in the same tank that go nuts over them.