valentini food

Well ive tried feeding him my homemade food he eats it and spits it out, tried giving him good ol crab legs cracked opened so he will try and eat it. Also tried giving him nori and blah still nothing. What should I try next?

 

Hmm .. I have a Valetini puffer and mine loves good ole fashion Flake. Frozen marine Cuisine Carnivorous Formula.. And for a hard crunchy treat i use Wardlys Sinking Shrimp pellets.. The pellets are in ther fresh water fish food section at your LFS and have a Corry catfish on the label....

Hope this help's..

BEst of luck...

 

I believe starting difficult to feed fish on live feeders like live brine shrimp is one way to help switch them to prepared/frozen foods. There are a lot of tricks/methods to get fish switched to prepare/frozen. I'm not familiar with them all, I would try some searches here on 3Reef or Google, personally.

 

Also...our Val will suck mysis in and spit it out then eat it...it just is breaking it up a bit. It also eats the larger pieces of Cyclo or Rods too. Good luck!

 

Mine likes Hikari brand frozen mysis,goes bonkers over plain old uncooked shrimp from the grocery store.

 

Mysis

 

thanks guys ill try a few of this stuff, i just dont want his arse to get hungry and look at my cleaner and laugh to himself and say lunch.

 

mine eats flake or any frozen food that i toss in there

 

Have you tried adding garlic...? My fish tend to like their food soaked in Garlic, makes them more excited when they eat. It also helped me to get my naso to eat algae. and now he eats it like a pro .

 

lol ya tried the garlic and still nothing, im gonna get some raw shrimp and see if he likes it