Thanks everyone!! I will try to cut up that tilapia that I saved and re-froze, hopefully she will eat it.
If she will eat canned fish, I would definately try mutilating the whole fish for her. Then it will be similar to the canned stuff she's used to. Then, mutilate less and less, like it was already stated. The first time I gave Grissom a whole sardine, he looked at me like "okay, and now dinner.... where's my dinner?!"
I was feeding her canned tuna w/ egg and organs once a week, but then I read canned tuna isn't good to feed?
I don't feed tuna as meals, but i use it to freeze in kongs, if that counts? lol
I haven't seen mackrel, and I thought salmon wasn't good? Or canned salmon is?
Have you checked in the area by the canned tuna and salmon for mackeral? I had never even heard of it until raw feeding (I'm not a fish eater. at all) Now that I know it exists I notice it in all the grocery stores.
Canned salmon is fine. There's fresh salmon from certain areas that needs to be frozen for a few weeks before feeding, but canned (or cooked) salmon is never an issue. Fresh salmon just seems to be really really expensive.
Where can you get whole sardines? She may like those??
I find them in mexican or asian markets. They're usually cheaper than the talapia, too. I just don't like to feed them to annie as much because hey require zero chewing or tearing for her, as each fish is only about 2oz... but by all means, if that's a whole fish she'll eat, I still put it above canned.