He’s currently on live minnows but I wna get him to eat frozen. It’s been about 2 days since he last ate and he’s still not interested in silversides at all. He’s about 4 or 5 inches big and in good health
How to get African tiger fish to eat frozen silversides?
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My incredibly ancient writeup on the subject:
www.monsterfishkeepers.com
After I wrote that, I got to the point where I would feed them small live crickets. The movement of the crickets would get their curiosity and trigger the feeding response, and when they were consistently hitting crickets without hesitation, I'd start mixing in pellets.
Once they got habituated to hitting anything on the surface, sinking pellets or fish chunks were taken readily. Getting them off of live is the hard part, but once they're off live they turn into garbage cans.
The younger you make them transition to dead food, the easier the transition will be.
So you want your new African Tiger Fish to eat pellets?
Its surprisingly easy! As long as you get started early, that is. When you bring home your new baby African Tiger Fish (ATF), you have to start the breaking process immediately. In order to use my method of breaking your new tigers, you need to take four simple steps: 1- Use teacher fish...
www.monsterfishkeepers.com
After I wrote that, I got to the point where I would feed them small live crickets. The movement of the crickets would get their curiosity and trigger the feeding response, and when they were consistently hitting crickets without hesitation, I'd start mixing in pellets.
Once they got habituated to hitting anything on the surface, sinking pellets or fish chunks were taken readily. Getting them off of live is the hard part, but once they're off live they turn into garbage cans.
The younger you make them transition to dead food, the easier the transition will be.
Mine took silversides straight away at about 3" and hasnt looked back 16 months later. Personally I wouldnt feed it any more live and just keep putting lancefish, prawn in until he takes it which I am sure he will as there arent many fish wish a prey drive and greed like AFT's
Payara are the same probably trickier but within a week tend to smash the frozen
Payara are the same probably trickier but within a week tend to smash the frozen
So small crickets will help him transition to frozen? Thanks for all the info btw!My incredibly ancient writeup on the subject:
So you want your new African Tiger Fish to eat pellets?
Its surprisingly easy! As long as you get started early, that is. When you bring home your new baby African Tiger Fish (ATF), you have to start the breaking process immediately. In order to use my method of breaking your new tigers, you need to take four simple steps: 1- Use teacher fish...
After I wrote that, I got to the point where I would feed them small live crickets. The movement of the crickets would get their curiosity and trigger the feeding response, and when they were consistently hitting crickets without hesitation, I'd start mixing in pellets.
Once they got habituated to hitting anything on the surface, sinking pellets or fish chunks were taken readily. Getting them off of live is the hard part, but once they're off live they turn into garbage cans.
The younger you make them transition to dead food, the easier the transition will be.
Yes. I've found small crickets elicit a predatory response from fickle characins like ATF and payara, which will eventually lead to them smashing anything that hits the surface of the water when tehy're hungry
