Switching From Live Foods To Pellets With WC Native Fish

[@RickyRanchu]

Your channel is a breath of fresh air. Not a lot of people are doing native fish tanks

[@leyenda6149]

So helpful! Thanks. Tryimg to train my green sunfish is tough

[@grock31]

Your method seems to work just fine. I would like to set up a native tank as well. Great job btw.

[@drawingaddictions3662]

I have to try this I have a male and a femal long eared bluegill just caught them today

[@timryan6103]

great, love natives. enjoy your videos. good info.

[@Day5Aquatics]

Tim Ryan thank you!

[@fishinginthehood]

Have you train bass to eat pellets before and is it the same method

[@AngelosFishTanks]

Great info. I truly enjoyed your video. Thanks so much for sharing that..

[@Day5Aquatics]

Angelo's Fish Tanks thank you

[@87lynka]

i have 2 green sunfish that eat anything... live/ pellet they hit it hard everytime... water splashes my face.... been raising them from about an inch long. I had creek chubs in the tank wihc i fed pellets... the sunfish got trained by seeing the chubs eat the pellets. I did not intentionally train them to eat the pellets, it kinda just happened. My one green sunfish eventually ate the creek chubs and is out growing the other geen sunfish. But they are not picky at all , go from live to pellet, pellet to live everytime no problems... cant say the same thing about my blue gills and pumkinseeds. The pumkinseeds seem to be the most picky while ive had my largest blue gill who i have the longest eat some pellets but he wont "fill up" the way he does on other foods.Perhaps i need to to be more patient and stick with ur method. Thanks for the knowledge borther!

[@tinakinasz247]

Interesting video. I couldn’t get my Rock Bass to convert. I ran out of patience with it so live foods for him (or her). Getting one of these to convert would be a challenge. It did however eat frozen foods.

[@torxrook5740]

I’m going to try this method...Hopefully the pumpkinseed stops spitting the pellets out!

[@Day5Aquatics]

Cynical Rook give it time

[@dbachelorsplantedaquarium4711]

great update!

[@AquariumsAnonymous]

Great info, thanks for the video!

[@AqualifeTv]

Thanks for sharing, good info👍

[@Day5Aquatics]

Aqualife Tv thanks

[@thatkidwil1201]

My black crappie won’t even touch the pellets. What can I do?

[@Day5Aquatics]

Patience and if it gets bad, try stuffing pellets into the food he will eat

[@willbatenchuk6171]

Great vid. Just subbed and now your at 1K✌

[@Day5Aquatics]

Will's Fish & Reptiles hey thanks!!!

[@willbatenchuk6171]

Day5 Aquatics no problem, you have an amazing Chanel 😀

[@FridayFishFacts]

First time watching one of your videos and I really enjoyed it. I use pellet as well. New sub 😁

[@FishingDBN]

Awesome 👍 video got a flowerhorn and day two his not eating

[@Day5Aquatics]

Fishing DBN if he’s a new fish it might take him a few days to get comfortable before he’ll want to take food. Pet trade fish don’t typically have a problem taking prepared foods for the most part.

[@FishingDBN]

Thank you 😊🙏.. il definitely keep you posted... I've tried 4 types of food thus far pellet form..

[@ronwise1745]

Fishing DBN Did your Flowerhorn start excepting pellets? I got a Flowerhorn about 2 weeks ago and my problem is that he will only take one certain type of pellet I got from the breeder. He just refuses any other types of pellets.

[@FishingDBN]

His eating everything 🤣 he was stressed and me more lol.... I'm really grateful for your help

[@DowntheWormHole]

well put!

[@kmaquaticexotics5326]

Would this work for bass

[@Day5Aquatics]

I’ve never kept bass so I don’t know how hard they are to train but I’ve seen tanks where bass would take pellets. The good news is that bass are very active surface feeders so that really increases the odds of getting them to accept pellets. This method theoretically works with any type of fish. The only thing I’ll say is that you may have to “starve” the bass longer than you would a sunfish before they get motivated enough to try pellet foods. Also, go with the largest floating pellet you can find. Unless you are training a tiny fingerling bass. The larger the pellet the more likely they are to notice it and consider it for food. Hikari floating Cichlid pellets would be a good start. Good luck and let me know how it goes.

[@kmaquaticexotics5326]

@@Day5Aquatics thanks man

[@brettjamesmiller]

Was that a goby in there ?!?

[@Day5Aquatics]

No, just a bristlenose pleco

[@grock31]

A while back you made an amazing intro for me and due to my error I erased the link you sent me. That's why I haven't been using it. Would you still happen to have that intro?

[@Day5Aquatics]

GDee Cichlids email me again. I probably still have it

[@grock31]

Day5 Aquatics awesome. I believe your email was erased as well but here's mine. [e-mail] thx

[@vogelkonigin3303]

I've never had any issue feeding pellets same day they go in the tank.

[@Ilogrich]

Can you put a link for the pellets you use?

[@Day5Aquatics]

Richard Ilog hikari cichlid gold pellets can be found at Walmart. Omega one super color cichlid pellets can be found on amazon and so can New life spectrum pellets.

[@Ilogrich]

Thanks!

[@coonycorn]

mine dont even eat worms any more...they spit them out and want fish food

[@biggumball]

Do you eat the fish you take out of your tank?

[@biggumball]

I like bass.

[@Day5Aquatics]

I don’t have time for trolls Mitchell.

[@CurieBohr]

Mine won’t take pellets. I think I need to play starving tug of war as you describe.

[@Day5Aquatics]

It feels cruel but it’s really not

[@ejbrinegar]

Dear Aaron: I culture several, small species of live food for my small, tropical fish. I watched this video by DebTim a Canadian Girl about culturing earthworms and it looks like a lot of fun: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmmbaKuEqdGGY7M Perhaps you might consider this method? Earthworms would make a nice treat for your, larger, native fishes. All my best, Sincerely, E. J. Brinegar

[@Day5Aquatics]

E. J. Brinegar I’m not interested at all in raising worms. If I’m gonna do that I’ll just get some from a bait shop. But I appreciate the tip. I just find it’s easier, cheaper, and safer to avoid live feedings if at all possible. And the fish are doing great.

[@ejbrinegar]

Dear Aaron: The processed foods you provide your pets appear to work well, as they look healthy and happy. The only native fish I ever had was a bullhead catfish (Ameiurus nebulosus). He took shrimp pellets and enjoyed freeze dried krill. I gave him earthworms when I found them, but I always worried about disease and poisons. He did fine, however, until he grew too wild and I gave him to a man who has a pond of catfish he feeds, but never allows fishing. Thank you for your, help and correspondence. Sincerely, Brinegar

[@ejbrinegar]

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[@wyattbryan3654]

4th comment interesting