what is everyone feeding their 2" silvers?

[joel]

Just picked up a two 2" silvers. never had an aro this small. what is everyone been feeding theirs?

[Bryantt]

teach it to eat pellets since it's a baby. i feed mine feeders and market shrimp. the big jardini i feed it feeders. once a month i give it a small mice from petco.

[Bderick67]

It would be hard for a 2 inch silver to eat pellets, their interior mouths are still soft. Raise it on freeze dried blood worms and some will accept a quality flake food. You can also feed it freeze dried baby shrimp or krill(I use the tetra brand it is soft).

Once about 5" you can start introducing pellets, and once you get them to eat from your hand the cut market shrimp is good.

[pwmin]

I also feed mine Omega One Freeze Dried Mysis Shrimp (kinda like krill but smaller and softer). It always ate FD blood worms, but took a little while to take flakes (currently eating Omega One Freshwater Flakes).

[BigJ]

Frozen brine shrimp is the best at that size

[Fishermoe14]

i raised mine since it had a yolk sac.. and i started it with omega one FD blood worms.. every once in a while id try a hikari food stick broken in half.. once he/she started taking them i stoped with the FD blood worms.. up to this date its still eating the food sticks.. just more :D

[joel]

thanks for info.

[Taboojen]

When I had a small aro like that I fed it hikari food sticks (broken in half as well) and small FD shrimp that i had soaked in water first. No problems there.

[Koji]

Once about 5" you can start introducing pellets, and once you get them to eat from your hand the cut market shrimp is good.

I use to do that hand feeding to my silvers.... now I dun dare to do so.:D

[likestofish]

Frozen brine shrimp is the best at that size
+1 and when it gets big enough try shrimp.

[silverdragon]

+1 and when it gets big enough try shrimp.

+2 and i also used freeze dried bloodworms.

[joel]

thanks everyone. i'll post some pics tomorrow.

[vincentliu89]

man, ever since i gave my 3" silver frozen dried mealworms, thats the only thing it eats now, it wont take the hikari food sticks anymore. Anyone know how i can get him to eat pellets again?

[DaveB]

I got my baby (Frankenstein - 2") 10 days ago and it took him 5 days before he started to eat. When he started eating it was because I dropped a pinch of frozen bloodworm in the back of the tank where he hid out after the main bloodworm/frozen brine/flake feeding up front. He snapped up a piece of bloodworm and that was like opening the floodgates. Now he sneaks up and gets a few pieces of flake every feeding and I drop in some of the surface floating hikari pellets, the really tiny ones. He'll usually chomp one of those, carry it around with his mouth all bulgy, spitting it out and re-chomping it several times. He has also eaten small pieces of frozen krill and has carried around a stalk from a live plant that got uprooted for a few minutes thinking it was food. I'm planning to order the hikari sticks when he gets bigger and use them as his main food. For now I consider myself lucky that he's not discerning and will eat whatever I put in there. He's getting braver about getting out and eating when all the other fish are up top too, which is really cool.

[pwmin]

I would stick to floating foods as much as you can. I don't really agree w/ the suggestion that brine shrimp are the best thing for that reason.

[Bderick67]

I would stick to floating foods as much as you can. I don't really agree w/ the suggestion that brine shrimp are the best thing for that reason.

Agreed, you need to keep the water as clean as possible. Sinking foods = more uneaten food, this leads to a dirty tank.

[ilikewomen]

if it has eggsack,nothin