Help with banggai babies!

[Bidadari]

I have a small batch of baby banggai. They're about 4 weeks old now, and have been eating only enriched live bbs. So far I've no luck in transitioning them into frozen food. I've tried giving them frozen cyclopeeze, daphnia & chopped mysis, but they show no interest at all. What can I do? Is there special trick to get them to eat frozen? or is it just a matter of waiting until they're older & ready? At what age do they usually start eating prepared food?
TIA.

 

[dirtyone]

try supplimenting the food with garlic, its a natural attractant plus it keep them healthy. its how i got my fish to eat frozen.

 

[FMarini]

your at the age where the fry should start weaning off live brine. Unfortunately there is NO trick that worked for me.
What I have recommened is to slowly start decreasing the amount of live food and slowly increase the amount of dead foods mixed together at each feeding. Make sure the food items are particulate. I find going cold turkey doesn't seem to work, you'll need a few of the fry to recognize the dead foods as foods, then they'll teach the group

 

[Bidadari]

Thanks. I'll try to do what's been suggested then. I'll mix prepared food and live food on every feeding time.

 

[papagimp]

Usually around 8-12 weeks is when I get mine eating nothing but frozen/prepared foods. Usuing similar technique that F.marini described.