Ok...so little Bumblebee won't eat pellets...but gave him some frozen brine shrimp and bloodworms and he attched them! haha! Any tips on getting them to try pellets or is this just something that he may not eat? Should I maybe soak them in the thawed out bloodworms for a little bit to get the smell on there?

Hoping he eats the pellets eventually or this is gonna be an expensive O! hah!

I'm lucky that mine are not picky; but one pellet that they particularly like is "Massivore Delight" by Hikari. It maybe a bit big for your lil' guys; but you could easily chop them in half.

Yeah little Optimus has no problems eating them...he's kind of like a garbage disposal! haha! The new one swims up like he's gonna eat the pellet but then backs off last minute and won't try it...maybe give him some time otherwise I'll have to give the massivore delight a try maybe...i'll just have to chop it up like you said.

My O ate some cichlid sticks as a baby, but quit eating those after some months.
He never touched any pellets after that.Only live worms and bugs.
He'd take some in his mouth and allways spat them out.
Now this month after more then a year he suddenly started eating them and seems to like them very much.
I didn't force him, he just started by himself.

I tried everything with my arow, no luck mate. just spits them out. I have now taken to hiding pellets inside muscles but it still throws them out )))

My oscar won't touch pellets either. He's never liked them so I grind them up and feed them to crickets. He can't resist Crickets. If it doesn't move he's not interested. I've even tried starving him like some say, but it didn't work.

Holy crap he ate pellets this morning! haha!

Figured he was gonna be shy about it again and not eat them but both O's begged at the top and ate their pellets like good little fish...haha! Apparently he saw the other one eating them enough and figured they were good!

fancy training my arow. ))))

spot on ikkie, should save u some money then aye!?

@ marcus, lol unlucky pal, wish i could afford to feed my fish on anything but pellets as a staple!

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Would be glad to...just send your tank and aro over to me and i'd be glad to try and train him to eat pellets! Could be a long time though so I better just keep both tank and aro!

hey marcus! im closer than him, surley it makes more sense to send me it to train first..again it could be a while...i may have to keep both tanka nd aro...