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pellet training datnoid and peacock bass

dudefish82

dudefish82

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what is the best way you can train these 2 fish to eat pellets. for the pbass he ate pellets once but he is too frightened to go up and eat pellets i got him and the dat only 2 days ago. datnoid only eats worms
 
Starvation and patience. Just keep an eye on the young ones are they are most likely to get hit harder.

Do you currently feed them around the same time everyday. Due to busy schedule, I am feeding them once every night around 9-10. Turning off all the lights in my living room leaving the tank light on only, the fishes recognize it's feeding time. The dats especially seem to come out of hiding and become a little bit more stable. I would say give them a few days off to even a week, or else they might start picking on themselves. I also used Seachem Garlic guard to soak pellets for some fishes. Pbass will be easier to get on pellets, while datnoids, they may never eat them.


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LuluB916 said:
Starvation and patience. Just keep an eye on the young ones are they are most likely to get hit harder.

Do you currently feed them around the same time everyday. Due to busy schedule, I am feeding them once every night around 9-10. Turning off all the lights in my living room leaving the tank light on only, the fishes recognize it's feeding time. The dats especially seem to come out of hiding and become a little bit more stable. I would say give them a few days off to even a week, or else they might start picking on themselves. I also used Seachem Garlic guard to soak pellets for some fishes. Pbass will be easier to get on pellets, while datnoids, they may never eat them.


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That is true. Datnoids will starve themselves until you give in. My Dat took almost 2 weeks to pellet train. My pb took week. I also had a male jag that was strictly feed feeder fish all his life up until I got him which was 6in. He took 2-3 weeks before he gave in. Now, I am going on almost 4 weeks now on a marble datnoid that I picked up from a lfs. Guy just will only eat feeder fish. No pellets, flakes, frozen food. Just feeder fish. I'm not going to give in. You can tell his stomach is sunken in. But hopefully he'll start to eat something. All the other fish are eating in front of him.

Like lulu said. Try dipping the pellets in garlic. I have heard it works. Good luck on the pellet training.

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Two weeks is no time for either fish as some of them can hold out for over a month.I would try tossing in some sinking pellets since you say the cichla seems to be scared to come to the top.The movement of the pellet being tossed in might trigger a response in both fishes....@crxlsturbo could you post a photo of this marbled dat?
 
Good you're halfway there lol..What kind cichla is it that you have?
 
By saying marbled datnoid, I think he meant Chinese perch or Mandarin fish. I made a recent trip at my LFS and I saw them selling "marbled datnoid". I think it's just a commercial or trade name to induce fish keepers to buy them. They do look like datnoids since they are perches from Asia, but are not from the same family as datnoids. Still a great fish though.

Is that what yours look like? See pic below.




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Oh I doubt that it's a Chinese perch but good for him if it is as they are very hard to come by in this country.I am inclined to suspect that his fish is actually a nandus species as they are sometimes sold as marbled dats...If you have seen Chinese perch for sale recently I'd like to know where?
 
LuluB916 said:
By saying marbled datnoid, I think he meant Chinese perch or Mandarin fish. I made a recent trip at my LFS and I saw them selling "marbled datnoid". I think it's just a commercial or trade name to induce fish keepers to buy them. They do look like datnoids since they are perches from Asia, but are not from the same family as datnoids. Still a great fish though.

Is that what yours look like? See pic below.




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That's exactly what it looks like but smaller. They are rare but not as active as a datnoid. Seems like this one is very stubborn about eating pellets. Just wants straight feeder fish.

To the op. Great bro. Glad to hear you got him eating pellets. What I did with mine I kept feeding him that same pellets for about 2 weeks then I introduced him to another pellet wanted him to eat. Now he eats hikari cichlid gold floating. Before mine started on the massive sinking pellets which to them is a live alternative to feeder fish in taste. The datnoid might be a little more stubborn. Good luck on him.

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