just sharing method that convert very stubborn juv PB from live feeder to mp
may be someone already used before, paisei....
to make it work, need some juv PB trained mp in tank.
1)place the stubborn juv pb + juv endi (any bottom deweller with mp trained)in breeder box and place in tank.
2)feed the stubborn juv pb with live stock(live ghost shrimp) till it pui pui.
3)then every day repeat mp feeding to tank pb only. don feed that pb in breeder box.
4) after the stubborn pb with headup whenever u do the action feeding, throw small mp in breeder box per pc each time. no worry of mp eaten by bottom deweller. make sure always 1 pce mp left. if 2hr later mp still there scoop up to avoid water fowl.
keep repeating 3rd and 4th step till it eat mp ^^cheers. hope it help.
may be someone already used before, paisei....
to make it work, need some juv PB trained mp in tank.
1)place the stubborn juv pb + juv endi (any bottom deweller with mp trained)in breeder box and place in tank.
2)feed the stubborn juv pb with live stock(live ghost shrimp) till it pui pui.
3)then every day repeat mp feeding to tank pb only. don feed that pb in breeder box.
4) after the stubborn pb with headup whenever u do the action feeding, throw small mp in breeder box per pc each time. no worry of mp eaten by bottom deweller. make sure always 1 pce mp left. if 2hr later mp still there scoop up to avoid water fowl.
keep repeating 3rd and 4th step till it eat mp ^^cheers. hope it help.
I would feed frozen blood worms warmed in a glass of hot water in the mornings and because of work I could only feed again at night, this is where I use this strategy I’m talking about right now. For the record you never want to starve a small cichla tying to “pellet train” that’s a good way to kill your fish… So moving forward, after roughly a week or two of doing the tossing in a few live with a few pellets/sticks you’ll want to do away with all live completely! Now you move on to cutting the live you were using in half.. So if you fed gold fish, use gold fish and just buy them live, keep them in a five gallon bucket with a sponge filter only taking what your feeding that night, then cut them in half and feed with pellets, same goes for rosés or sliver sides etc... They will eat the cut feeders as long as there the same feeders you were using and their freshly cut in half. Continue this for a week than introduce something alongside the usual cut feeders, like whole frozen krill. Again like the frozen blood worms, warm the frozen krill in a glass of hot water before feeding it. How I do this next step is if I normally cut and feed 6 feeders I’ll reduce that to say 3, then I’ll take my warmed krill from the glass of hot water and cut it in half. Then I’ll mix up the krill and freshly cut feeders in a glass with some pellets/sticks, sometimes adding vid chem and serve… The bass will hammer it as soon as it hits the surface but may spit the krill/pellets out still. Don’t get discouraged and continue this feeding until you noticed your bass are eating pieces of the krill, even if it’s just one or two of them. Once you notice a few of your bass are eating the krill, completely cut out the cut feeders all together and move full force into frozen… Continue the Krill but begin to add cut pieces of raw or cooked market shrimp and bite size pieces of tilapia… Now you can say you have successfully broken your cichla off live and are now on cut baits.. From here I’ll move into “all top water foods” to begin this stage of pellet training….The reason I do this is because my favorite food to feed my fish is Hikari Tropical Jumbo Carnisticks, using Azoo 9 in 1 sticks as a filler.. they both float… So to begin I’ll mix up a batch of Carnisticks, Azoo sticks with freeze dried Krill (I use a lot of freeze dried krill 60% sticks 40% dried krill)… Since my lil cichla are already use to krill by now they will recognize the freeze dried krill automatically and hit it right away. It may take a lil time before they begin to fully eat it though because it now has a different texture, I will say this though…they surly will end up eating it.. At first you’ll notice the bass only picking out the dried krill and only mouthing the sticks.. But that brings us back to the Competition for food again… Remember not to over feed only feeding just enough… Competition for food and the fact that all of this food floats will make for a feeding frenzy eventually…and because the food is all around the same size the bass will begin to just take mouthfuls of the floating food not caring what’s krill and what’s sticks, just so long their getting some before it runs out… Buy the time your batch of dried kill / Carnisticks is gone your bass will except %100 floating sticks… End result your cichla are now “pellet trained”… From here you could try adding sinking pellets like massivor etc.. if you wished..
