In my experience, little allies will take pellets readily if they're hungry, but will ignore them if fish are available; mine take turtle pellets and koi pellets. In the wild they consume various non-mobile prey (clams, acorns, berries, etc.), so they can find the pellets easily enough. If you want to switch him, it might be best to skip a meal or two, then offer the pellets. Otherwise he might hold out for fish. Once he's taking pellets, you can change up the diet with fish.

It might be worth your while to breed guppies or convict cichlids to keep him fed.

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