Frozen food training!! Any thoughts?

[softmick]

I have posted this in a thread in the journal section also but thought it makes a good thread on its own....

I am in the process of training my new octopus to accept frozen food by stuffing a freshly cracked mussell with frozen lancefish and shrimp. Here in the UK mussells are a very good live food as they are only around 80p per pound. Does anyone know how nutritional they are if fed as a sole source of food?

Up to now he hasnt noticed and eats the lot!

How do you / have you, trained your cephs to eat frozen food?

 

[Tigerkatze_82]

Hello

I can only tell you how we made frozen food (Crangon sp.) attractive to our cuttlefish babies:
Fresh (living) Crangons were mixed with some Crangons that were cooled down for a few minutes (not moving much) and with frozen Crangons. The young cuttlefish learned to link not-moving (frozen), slowly moving (cooled) and living food quickly and over the time fresh Crangons were more and more substituted by cooled-ones until frozen ones were finally accepted as the "main dish"...

Hope that's sort of helpfull...

Gruß,
K