If you start with the live bloodworms or blackworms, feed the fish individually using stainless steel forceps or tweezers (can find them for use in planted tanks or in a regular drug store). Fortunately mine took to the frozen food right away, and all along I've been feeding with forceps. Now whenever they see anything in the forceps they assume it's food - when I'm moving plants around they are right there trying to eat them!
That's exactly how I trained mine to eat frozen food, by using my planting tongs to hold the food. From live worms with tongs, to dead blackworms (I killed them by soaking in vitamin C solution), then frozen worms. The tongs totally helped
That's exactly how I trained mine to eat frozen food, by using my planting tongs to hold the food. From live worms with tongs, to dead blackworms (I killed them by soaking in vitamin C solution), then frozen worms. The tongs totally helped
I just bought 2 dwarf puffers this week, they also hardly eat, but i bought some super small snails and they seemed interested, they tried to eat them but havnt gotten one yet, maybe you could try snails.
My DP will NOT eat anything but snails. I had a male trained to flake food once, though he prefered bloodworms or brineshrimp. But this girl I have now will not touch anything but MTS or ramshorns. I actually had to start farming snails in my larger tank to keep her well fed. I got her from a megapetmonopoly store and she was starving. Sucked up like a supermodel. After a week in my tank, she was fat and I had half a billion snail shells floating in my water change bucket.
i got live blackworms... they won't eat them though, I tried to use a turkey baster. didn't work the worms eventually fell into the gravel and dissappeared.
where can i find these tongs or tweezers? just any random one?
But in a pinch, tweezers will work. Just be careful because they're sharp and could possibly cut a fishy. You can also use a Q-tip because the dry cotton will hold the worms in place.
Maybe you should try your hand at some live snails, also. Common pond or ramshorns are best because they don't have an operculum (trap door) that they can close predators out with. Most LFS have some in their tanks, especially the plant tanks because they're common hitchhikers.
