Getting a datnoid to eat pellets

[Japtastic]

Can anyone who has got their datnoid to eat pellets give me some tips please

 

[islander671]

If you have multiple dats, isolate one of them and focus getting him on pellets first. Once he takes pellets regularly re-introduce him into the community and the rest normally follow.
To get a dat onto pellets will take alot of patience as some tigers can go months without eating. Try various foods, before concentrating solely on pellets. Also, keep your feeding time at the same time every day. Get them on a schedule so they will know what time is feeding time. This is what has worked for me anyhow.

 

[Tigerfish908]

I started with fd krill which floats at the top, and they started to eat it after a few days...Then I starved them again, and put in some Hikari Foodsticks...Most of them started eating them...I only fed foodsticks for about 2 weeks until all were eating them...I just have 1 that wont touch them out of 13...

 

[dennisdeng2002]

I got my indo and at on pellets by feeding pieces of shrimp stuffed with pellets. Eventually I would put smaller and smaller shrimp pieces with pellets until they recognized pellets were edible. The key is when you use smaller pieces of shrimp just mash it against the pellet so the pellet is clearly visible. I hope you understand what I'm saying it's kind of hard to put into words exactly.

 

[_TiDy_]

^ that is exactly what I did and now all my dats eat pellets only!

 

[T1KARMANN]

floating pellets are not that good try hikari sinking carnivore

you stand more chance with hikari fish seam to eat them better

 

[FunWow!]

Try krill they should eat it with no problem and then just go from there. I have dats that still wont eat pellets so they get nightcrawlers, shrimp, feeders once in awhile and small crayfish. Just comes down to personal preference i guess.

 

[HiImSean]

I started with fd krill which floats at the top, and they started to eat it after a few days...Then I starved them again, and put in some Hikari Foodsticks...Most of them started eating them...I only fed foodsticks for about 2 weeks until all were eating them...I just have 1 that wont touch them out of 13...

thats similar to what i did. mine would eat FD krill off the bat but no other floating food. after eating FD krill he would eat a few sinking shrimp pellets after i starved for a while off FD. now he will eat just about anything but flakes. he's recently started eating floating cichlid pellets

 

[Japtastic]

This is great news, I was expecting a flurry of replies saying there is no chance, I'll be trying the methods mentioned and let you how I get on, thanks