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i was wondering how you guys get your fish to eat new things. my archer is being picky again and doesnt want to eat his dried shrimps. -.- he loves crickets but that gets expensive after awhile. is there any cool techniques you guys use to get certain fish to eat something? c'mon its dried shrimp..who doesnt like dried shrimp!! lol.
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I hate to say it...but sometimes you just have to starve them for a day. that is what I would do with my discus when trying to get them off of bloodworms and on to pellets. that or give him what he wants with a little of the new stuff. and over time slowly increase the amount of the new stuff until he is only getting the new food.250gallon-Wild Angels, community -
lol sounds like hes doing that to himself. he doesnt eat the shrimp when i throw it in and he tries to eat the mono's flakes -.- UGH lol. hes semi starving himself. i wonder how mixing a cricket and dried shrimp would work XD!Comment
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Hang a silk plant over the tank and mount a small xmas flashing light.
When he spits at it, drop 1 shrimp in.
Just like training them to put out cigaretts.
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Dried shrimp is also pretty tough for an archer to eat. They don't have any teeth to speak of or grinding palate like a redfish so you may need to soak the shrimp in water for a while and rehydrate it to soften it up some.
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I fed my archer fish dried tubifex worms. I took a small portion of the cube , dipped it in water, and then stuck it to the side above the water's surface. the archer fish would then spit at it until it fell into the water.
Usually when transitioning a fish to new food, I add a little of the new food to the old food and feed both... increasing the percentage of neww food each time until it hits 100% after 7-10 days.Scarecrow : I haven't got a brain... only straw.
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My fish can be picky sometimes. Especially my natives. I went with what newb was saying to get them to eat flakes. I fed the tank only flakes for about a week, but only a couple of times. They had been eating bloodworms and frozen brine shrimp (and sometimes other live foods such as scuds and mosquito larvae) for YEARS. They were finally hungry enough to actually eat it. The first couple of times everyone just took it in their mouth, expecting food because that's what the big hand usually puts in their tank, and spit it right out.
I tried to taper off the live food with flakes and pellets, but they ended up just taking the live food and leaving the flakes/pellets.
Long story short, they'll get hungry enough to eat. But just be sure the food you're switching to had the correct nutritional values for the specific fish. And that they can eat it, like Mark said."Millennium hand and shrimp!"Comment
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