Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations planning a PB member Yellow Perch experiment

You should be able to get them to eat softened sinking pellets in 7-10 days. However the longer you feed them pellets the better they will stay to eating pellets after they are released into a pond. Just because you have them eating pellets does not mean they will resume eating pellets when released back into the pond. One factor that helps them resume eating pellets is to not have much natural food present when released, so the main food available is just pellets. IMO you should try to feed them pellets for at least 2 months or until they start getting stressed for some reason and you start to see some deaths.