HOW TO: Trick your aquarium fish into eating! STEP BY STEP 

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Thanks so much, Joey! I'm going to trick my son into eating pellet food now.

“float to the bottom of the tank” 😂 Great video man, 👍🏽

Good stuff Joey! idk if its just me but I can't seem to come across any good videos from DIYers about quarantaining fish. Do you have any videos of you showing what you do as a standard quarantaining process?

You have the best aquarium channel on RU-vid in my opinion. Love all your videos they are interesting and informational. I found your channel because I was having problems with my Koi tank, needless to say problems gone. I watch your videos that have nothing to do with my fish simply because I'm learning so much, thank you for helping me get into this hobby successfully, you're awesome!!

Hi Joey. How many maximum days should you starve the arowana before trying this trick? I have an 8 inch asian Arowana. Pls. Reply. Thanks

joey why don't you make a video on arowana care guide for beginners

Good info. Not kept any large predators and was wondering if you've ever used garlic to stimulate appetite? Maybe rubbing the pellet with garlic?

Aeroplane noises might work. Or maybe you have to play "here comes the submarine". (just being silly).

Thank you Joey. I got my first silver arawona a couple days ago, about 6 inches, just a wee beautiful fish. Watching your videos over the past few months has been quite inspiring so I bit the bullet when I saw this fish a month ago. Went back last Monday and he was still there. Finally went back in on Saturday and got him. I'm planning on a long term relationship with this little guy starting with a 30 gal grow out for the year then upsizing. Thank you again for doing what you're so good at. Your 350 looks great with the rainbows. Peace from kelowna...

Hey joey! Love your vids! Very helpful!! I have a silver aro about 14 inches and it's been a week now can't get him to eat anything. He was on feeders when I got him. I immediately got him on to worms, and then to frozen shrimp, I thaw the shrimps out every time in some of his tank water and cut them up into smaller pieces. But it's been a week now and can't get him to eat I've been keeping up on water changes and water is good? I did add a bubble stone about a week ago do you think it may be stressing him out?

Do you have two arowanas or do often transfer it from your aquarium in front of the stingrays, to the plywood aquarium?

How many days or weeks did it take before you got your Arowana successfully eat the shrimp?

how would you suggest getting smaller fish like discus to switch over to other foods. mine only like brine shrimp and don't like beef heart.

What type of light do you use Joey? To get that cool blue effect?

Great info, never thought of those different techniques to get fish to eat a certain food that I currently have. Awesome info, very much appreciated.

I done the thread/shrimp method 14 yrs ago and it works well. You should try breeding the arowana. Take the challenge.

wow those are some great tips. thread trick i will have to try with my kids. they want to learn to feed the fish and this would be a really cool way for them to keep their fingers and hands out of the tank.

@The king of DIY Out of curiousity, any experience with Datnoids? I know they are notorius for this and I just picked one up from a LFS but they still had it on feeders and bloodworms. Ive had him for about a week but haven't been able to get him to take anything even the bloodworms. Any thoughts or advice you can provide is greatly appreciated, Thanks!

Your knowledge never ceases to amaze me, thank you for the info

I have some goldfish and since I added another rescued fancy to my tank all of fish have been stressed. The water is clean. The tank size is right. I have tried a lot of different things and nothing seems to be working.

putting in all of the footage of the fish throughout the video was very entertaining. Also, will you be at aquatic experience 2015 on Saturday this November? that is the day i am attending and we would love to see you there!

hey joey i want to start a small tilapia farm in a 500 gallon tub and i would like to know if a filter system is required, even if its in the sun and has a lot of algae growth

I got my arowana and it would not eat with any trick I thought he might be sick. But When I saw your video on filling your tank with carbon and and other chemical filtration. It gave me Idea that the established tank that I have him in my have organics and stuff. I put bag carbon in wait few hours and he actually ate some shrimp and has been eating ever since. Thank You Joey

Wow, this was pretty insightful. You've made such progress over the years, it's quite inspiring. Have you any vids on how to get suckerfish/plecos off other fishes fishslime?

Great tips Joey. I'm sure they will help many fish keepers

I recently got a pearl scale and green arowana babies. They are not eating anything since I got them. They take food and spit it out right away. I have tried somethings you told but babies are still spiting out food. Can you please suggest something especially for baby Arowanas.

Nice but I think more of use. Top out with oscars or something of about that size. Any tips for big to mid sized fish? Not all of us can manage a 300+ tank for monster fish.

Great idea with stuffing the shrimp. It's used all the time to get dogs to take tablets and what not so it's pretty ingenious and easy enough to do.

I have a huge knife fish that only attacks life feeders. I have tried starving it for a week before feeding it sardine fillets. Bit it and spat it out. Maybe it's the taste or texture of the food that affects it too. Gonna try again with prawns. See if it works.

These videos are awesome and artfully relaxing.

wow great video. a good idea for those who dont like to see fish eat live fish!!

I'm having trouble getting my two albino Oscars to eat. They used to like crazy animals but now they barley eat. They are far more active with the lights off and I assume they eat then. But almost always now they won't eat when I put it in. I hate this

Awesome tank!!, I love everything about it especially the beautiful arowana, just wondering do you think he would get along with a few peacock bass??

Bro can you please help me out how your maintaining the water parameters of your fish ...

what's the size of your aquarium? ? what sought of filteration do you use? ? plz reply!

Hi , Can we practice the same on a Stingray ? I'm having such a hard time getting him to eat Prawn.

hay joey, can j di a breeding setup or tip for topic of the week

can you please tell me how to get that dark tent on you tank that's making your water look so dark but your still able to see the fish?

Late to the party but thanks for this video, trying to not use feeders for my silver arowana because I had a ick outbreak in one of my other tanks because of them. Going to have to try the string method with shrimp and I think it'll work

I have 4 inch flowerhorn it doesn't want to eat pellets, please advice. Thank you

I do starving method too when introducing new food to my fishie. Thanks for sharing bud on how wing fish off live food. Fired Up!!!

While I haven't tried it on any fish that eat live food. If I am struggling to get a fish to eat a new food I train them to know food enters the tank when I turn the light on while using the old food. When I introduce some of the new food during the same routine it is readily accepted. Then I can slowly wean them off the old.

Awesome video! thanks for the tips!

You are the best. I wish you much success. Thank you.

can you make a video where you make a mini aquarium. mine will be 10" inches tall ×5"inches wide ( this is the side of my future aquarium ) the other measurement is 10" inches tall ×20" inches wide . its going to be a tiny aquarium for the top of my desk and want to do a filter that will act as a canister / sump filter would love to see you do a DIY video to have a guide for my project.

Joey what is the best background color of the silver arowana?does it need to have blue lights?

Is this true for the kids too?

hey there been watching your vids for4 a while thought I give this a try and ask how much do you feed you arowana , I have a jardini < I know its not the same in class but imagine same appetite, cheers and thanks for all your info

Which is the colour of the light in your tank?

Topic for future video: how to handle aquarium burnout especially for people with MTS and possible ways to get through it. I mean burnout like the person getting burned out on taking care of tanks.

u are so talented bro

Whats the difference of feeding live fish to your peacock instead of shrimp or something? is live fish a disadvantage or something. thank you :)

also would like it to be integrated within the tank like the video where you installed the filter in the tank itself since space is kind of limited

He takes it so gently

thanks for the info! great fish bro!

Hey Joey you ever plan 9 trying to breed your arrowana

I'm gonna train my silver arowana to eat pellets. Wish me luck 😉

Try using fluorocarbon fishing line. It's practically invisible in water

Nice one Joey and a great topic too :)

great vid. ty

Cichlid Nez drop in and seen ur cool video.

I took fishing line & tied one small knot in it. With a needle ran it through a shrimp. Soon a they tug it pulls rt out. I got 1 out of 5 Payaras taking. Been about a week. I'll try the darker clothes & some other techniques I've been on this video too.

How much did you get that fish for ?

Hey my water is really dark like oil lol I have a red tail cat fish n a Oscar wat should I do n the water stink I do water changes every week

This is like playing fetch with a fish. May he RIP. Fish Heaven.

Quality content!

that arowana is the coolest!!

What colour aro is this..??

Joey looks like you enjoyed making this video n tricking your fish :p ;)

Clever...it will trick my silver . Thanks

They can see red it's used a lot for fishing lures

I wonder if this would work with dwarf puffers.

Thanks so much you are my aquarium godfather 😂🙏

This helped me so much with my new Oscar!

thanks

Why use string when you could see fishing line

Still doing your podcast?

your fish are very beautiful.

i have a pet baby bass and im trying to get him to eat worms and pellets but no luck?

ia friend said he lost a wolf cichlid because of feeders. he did a biopsy on it and it was impacted from all the skulls

My goldfish looks like it wants to beat it grabbed the food but then it spits it out. Also STOP FEEDING GOLDFISH TO YOUR BIG FISH, IT IS NOT GOOD FOR EITHER OF THEM!!!!

Thanks, he helped me ! :)

Who is watching after buddy died 😢

What for angelfish

Or use a fishing line

make a discus breeding video!!!!

Hey Why dont you breed that beautiful Arowana.

I have also found that my Discus fish like to eat food that are rushed along by the water flow.

could you feed feeder fish a certain diet and then feed your fish in order for your fish to have a proper diet

You can also put yo food in liquid garlic that can also help to.

My arowana only eats pellets.... Not blood worms help

Feeder fish are fun

I have that issue with my 12" frontosa , he will eat but not when someone is watching

When I first got my turtle, he didn't eat for 4 days (if I remembered correctly) but once I got him into his real tank, he would eat anything I gave him, sometimes fish get stressed if their tank is to small, so watch out for that.

i have a hard time getting my aro to eat market prawns. i've already tried these techniques. any more tips?

Hey beautiful people! I don't feed live food to my fish, but I've heard of breeding ones own feeder fish. Guppies, blue gills, tilapias, etc. (With reason of fish eat fish in the wild type of things) any thoughts on that?

Great video!! I think it's foolish to feed feeder fish when there are so many specifically made foods. I find no enjoyment seeing a small fish clinging for dear life

Joey was so mechanical back then wow

And if nothing seems to work, you can still eat the fish. ;)