How to get fish to accept new food?

My fish wouldn't accept the new flake food for days now, and my supplies of frozen Bloodworms and Vitamin-Rich Granule pellets are depleting. I can't get them to eat the pellets. I've tried mixing the old food with the new food but they only eaten the old food.

Can anyone help me to entice the fish to eat? I can't buy my old food since they cost a lot more here.

 

Short answer: Starve them. LOL

Long answer: Only offer them the new food. Don't give in! They'll eat when they're hungry. Its not in the nature for a healthy fish to starve itself to death. Its not very conducive to the survival of the species

 

There are some species that will starve to death, but most will eat what you feed them when they are hungry enough. If they don't eat it I would starve them for a couple of days and feed it to them again. If they still didn't eat it I would thing there was something wrong with the fish.

 

You Can also try soaking the food in tank water with some garlic in it.

 

Good morning,

As AkarI has mentioned above, Garlic can act as a food enhancer for fish along with helping to boost the fishes immune system.

I use Garlic Guard routinely, twice a week on fish treats:

Maybe you can find something similar in your area.

Another option is garlic juice from minced garlic in a jar:
https://www.fishlore.com/aquariumfi...r-just-an-example-for-those-needing-it.62705/

Third, making your own garlic juice recipe:
"Benefits of garlic:

Purifies blood; detoxifies; lowers cholesterol levels; lowers blood pressure; blood thinner; prevents blood clots; boost immune system; prevents heart disease and strokes; destroys cancer cells; muscle relaxant; antibiotic; antifungal; suppresses growth of tumors
Using a medium size bulb; peel cloves apart, snip off ends; microwave cloves for 5 to 10 seconds to pop hulls; remove hulls; cut the length of the cloves in thin slices; place in cup of hot (from tap) water; cover, and let sit at room temperature for 12 hrs; mash the cloves and strain for immediate use; refrigerate until needed. good for two to three weeks.
The longer the cloves soak, the stronger the solution."

The information above comes from the link below:


Ken

 

I like the Garlic Idea. Though I somehow would feel bad about starving my fish though.. Thinking thinking...

 

HI Keegee,

I have left my fish alone for a weekend, 2 full days, with no food and everything was fine when I returned. The fish were hungry and I got splashed big time when I went to feed them.

I'm not a fan of fasting my fish but sometimes it does help.

Ken