Transitioning to pellets

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Cadesun

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Hi All -

I am currently trying to transition my fish from flakes to pellets and it has not been going well. I typically feed my fish (maroon clown, potters angel, fuzzy dwarf lion, royal gramma) every other day, alternating flakes and frozen foods such as Rod's and mysis. The lion gets fed big chunks of seafood every third day. The only fish so far to take the pellets has been the clown, the gramma and the angel bite them and spit them out. I am not worried about the lion. Any tips?
 
What pellets are you feeding? Most fish will go for the NLS Ther-A because of how much garlic is in them. One way to get fish on pellets is to mix them in with the frozen and let them soak up the "juice" from he frozen foods. Then feed with the frozen. Each time use less frozen and more pellets until they are taking the pellets readily.
 
I agree with skullV ...mix frozen with pellets...it might take some time for them to get used to it but be patient.
 
Some times its because they r hard and the fish r not use to hard food soaking them a while before feeding to soften them up sometimes works specially if they bite them already and spit them out thats half the battle.
 
Thanks for the input everyone! They are New Life Spectrum pellets, and I will try soaking them with some Rod's today before feeding.
 
I don't know if Hikari also makes normal pellets, but the algae pellets I got for my foxface from them are "rapidly softening" and both my foxface and wrasse take them readily.
 
Cadesun said:
Thanks for the input everyone! They are New Life Spectrum pellets, and I will try soaking them with some Rod's today before feeding.
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I feed spectrum pellets more than anything else. All of my fish eat them. I do pinch about 25 pellets between my fingers and dip them in the water and hold them for about 20 seconds or so. Then throw them in. This allows them to soften up and they also sink rather than float and go over my overflow.
 
I soak mine is Selcon and a little garlic before feeding. I wait for it to get slightly cloudy. (soft)
 
I've been using Elos sv.M2 and even fish I just added into the tank eat it.

The only problem is it's expensive as heck, but the protein content is the highest I've ever seen in a pellet food.

BRS sells a huge can of it which makes it more cost effective than buying the tiny cans.

Soaking your current pellets and mixing them with frozen as mentioned earlier should work.
 
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