that's good but your correct on adding pods still. these guys eat all day so unless your dropping lots of pellets all(which would be bad) supplementing with pellets is a great way to keep them fat and healthy. these guys come straight from the wild,so that's the reason you need a healthy tank with pods, to buy time until you train them to eat prepared foods. it's not hard to do but takes a lil time to get them to eat. new life pellets seem to work the best