feeder fish

anyone in the jhb area with livebearers guppies,swords,platies etc that are breeding profusely and wouldnt mind parting with the offspring let me know plz

 

haha ,guess you gonna have to DIY

 

lol ja but its fine i'v just been lazy

 

Well livebearers are a bit of a job...
Why not try cons, less job more fry...

 

nah i cudnt do that i like convicts to much

 

Why do you want to go the feeder fish route? Good pellets and frozen food is good enough

 

Never tried frozen food,i feed them pellets and things i'm just trying to vary their diet

 

You'll be amazed how much they wake up when you add bloodworm to the tank

Look at the Hikari range of pellets for predatory cichlids, very good stuff and the red on my ex Red Tiger came out brilliantly

 

ok will give it a try

I just love to watch them hunt their food

 

I agree with the frozen foods. Bloodworms and lance fish will be great for oscars.

I'm also looking for anyone’s spare baby fish, only in CT.
Nirv and I have fish that won't accept pellet food, and we want to vary from frozen foods.

It's not urgent, as we breed our own, but it would be nice to get variety as well as greater numbers to feed them.

 

and now i got this baby aro thats eat 40 fish a week imagine when his bigger

 

try hikari aro sticks mixed with the hikari gold and just give feeders as a treat on weekends.make sure you where your feeders are coming from and they have been quarinteened

 

will the aro eat fake food?

 

hikari is in my opinion the best food for arowana . He will sulk for a few days .dont panik .and when he gets hungry he will take.just make sure its the floating kind .that way his eyes are always uptop and you can try and prevent drop eye

 

i will keep a look out for it,where do you buy yours?i'v been throwing some cichlid sticks in his tank and he seems to be eating them.gonna try him on some small crickets today i think they safer than feeder fish.also i saw some shrimp at the checkers bt its said cooked what do u think?

 

Crickets are always the better option for live food, and any other non-toxic insects really, because they pretty much eliminate the risk of diseases being introduced to the tank.

With regards to the seafoods/prawns/frozen food, try to get the stuff that hasn't been cooked and that hasn't been seasoned. The seasoned food is just plain bad for your fish (can't remember the reason though, I think they can't handle it), and the cooked food... well, you can use it. However, I know that cooking the food takes out some of the nutritional value of the food, and the fish don't go for it as eagerly as they do for non-cooked food.

 

if you gonna give crickets and your aro is small .pull the legs off .they can get hooked in the stomach and not digest .it swells up effects the swim bladder and your aro dies
i buy my hikari at northgate lfs .my wife always gives my aros a bit of raw fish when she makes dinner.

 

thanx salmon

even small crickets?

 

bud i guess small crickets will be ok just start of slowly 1 or 2 at a time and make sure that boney tongue is doing its job and crushing them .
at the end of day just do what you thinks is best ,im just giving you a worst case senario ,but like salmon said ,flavoured foods are def out.

 

ja ok i gave him one last week as a tester and he ate it nicely and his been eating well since then,i wanted to try him with an eartworm yesterday but i couldnt find a single one this dam cold probably.i'm all out of the fish from troy now i think his hunting my bro's fish and his back today