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Re: Weaning older frys off live foods...

On 27 Mar 2002, at 12:30, Ron @ HomeBase2 wrote:

> I tried a one-day fast to get them all eager for food (their faces are
> literally pressed to the glass with those doleful eyes!), dropped in a
> cory pellet but it was largely ignored except for the inquisitive few,
> who pecked a little.

As AL said mix the new food in witht he old. ALso, try to introduce 
the fry to the flake/pellet ASAP. Don't wait till they look big 
enough. Try small pellets of crushed flake. I possible place some 
dither fish in the tank to "show" them what  is edible.

I start weaning my nothos onto flake from about 3 weeks and the non 
annuals from around week one. My amieti only got live food for  2 
weeks before they were completely on Mike Reed's No-Bs.

I feel it is very important to have our fish take flake and other 
prepared foods. The Vitamins and minerals in these food are essential 
to healthy fish. The only alternative is lots and varied live foods. 
This is ofcourse very difficult to provide through out the year.

Bu using dither fish and associative conditioning I am even able to 
get wild nothos to take flake. If you are pipetting bbs and frozen 
food into the tank then start pipetting flake and pellets at the same 
time. The fish learn that the pippet = food and will peck at anything 
coming from it.

Good luck
Tyrone Genade
tyronegenade at yahoo_com
http://www.tyronegenade.0catch.com

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