Baits tested in fish tank

I have had Carp in a 500+ litre aquarium for a few years now, and naturally I have tried lots of different feeds in it. I have divided the fishes response into four categories. Very good means that they fight for every single piece of it (uprooting plants, dislodging the pump, digging in the gravel... ...). Good means that they eat it, but are in no real hurry. Some pieces will remain if buried. Indifferent means that they do not seem to notice the "food" item at all. May suck it in, but not more often than the gravel. Negative means that they actually avoid it - in the extreme they hide in the other corner of the tank 'till I have removed the "food". Some baits have film clips of the fish eating them (in quicktime or flash format).

    Very good
  • All boilies in the section
  • Active-8 maple boilies (strongest reaction so far)--- Clip 1 --- Clip 2
  • "The source" boilies --- Clip
  • Red shrimp boilies (recipe) --- Clip 1 (3mb) - jumping to get a boilie outside the tank! --- Clip 2 (3mb) - eating the boilies
  • Halibut pellets
  • Suspending koi pellets
  • Corn-steep pellets
  • Carp pellets (all flavours tried so far)
  • Trout pellets
  • Hemp pellets
  • Lumpfish eggs
  • Smoked salmon
  • Sweetcorn
  • Chopped worms
  • Casters
  • Bread dipped in liquid foods
  • Shrimps/prawns
  • Bloodworms
  • Daphnia
  • Brine shrimp (Artemia Salina)
  • Mussels
  • Small live fish (e.g. Guppies!)
  • Assorted meats and sausages
  • Cambozola Cheese --- Clip
  • Paprika --- clip
  • Hemp
  • Frolic - dog food
  • Wasabi
  • Spirulina-wafers (fish-feed)
  • Lemon
    Good
  • Lettuce
  • Green peas
  • Maggots (actually were afraid of them until they learned to eat them)
  • Whole live worms (afraid of large uns)
  • Tangerine
  • Chick peas
  • Floating koi pellets
  • Bread
  • Peanuts
  • Snails
  • Carrot
  • Groats
  • Wheat
  • Cashew nuts
  • Borlotti beans
  • Nearly all types of plants that would look good in the fish tank!
  • Pig feed pellets
  • Potatoes
  • Rice
  • Lime (liked smell but not taste, still ate it eventually)
    Indifferent
  • Cucumber
  • Pear
  • Apple
  • Cabbage
    Negative reaction
  • Mistral banana-tutti boilies (have caught carp on them though)
  • 50/50 Strawberry boilies --- Clip 1 --- they stayed away until I removed it 1 hour later!
  • Oranges
  • Pineapple chunks - attracted to smell, but repelled by taste --- Clip 1 --- Clip 2 (2mb)
 
 
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