training angler to eat silversides

[whatcaneyedo]

One of my past lionfish was a real PITA to get to eat frozen in the beginning. What worked for me is I would feed it live guppies at first bathed in garlic and selcon and then I'd kill the guppies and impale them on a thin length of wire and move them around in the tank as if they were alive. Once the lion would eat those I traded the guppies for small silversides. The whole time I didn't feed it very much or very often to keep it quite hungry. I really didn't enjoy the whole process but within a month it did work and I had the lion eating both frozen silversides and krill.