To ALL snakehead owners - diet?

[Euge]

This is a question to all snakehead owners out there, i was wondering what do you feed your snakehead? I know that it is good to have a varied diet so they get all the nutrition they need. I am currently feeding my marulius and bleheri, dried shrimp, frozen blood worms, and live minnows ( i think thats what they are). i get the feeders for about $.25 US for abt 30 of them so they're soooo cheap. I just started them on the feeders today, but so far they haven't eaten any. Should I put awhole bag of the feeders in the tank and let the snakeheads eat when they want?



What do u feed yours!

[contender]

i have a striata and micropeltes, and an albino striata (well looks like a striata) and i feed them sometimes live fw shrimp, talapia, and i'm looking into frogs, but there are a lot of frogs out here that might be toxic for them,....

[Euge]

I use to feed them shrimp, but the store here that sells feeders doesn't have them anymore, and they say they're usually all gone by noon. Which sucks coz my SH's loved the live shrimp.

[contender]

they do love'em, but i always thought it to be a messy clean up,,, the exo shells never really digest, so there are always shelss everywhere....

[rumblesushi]

cichlid gold pellets.

PS - feeders here are about 3 dollars for 1. Hahahahah. I wish they were cheap then I would feed them nothing but feeders.

[jelly]

They are far from fussy.

I feed my two, Live earthworms, shrimp and crickets. Frozen fish, prawns and shrimp. Bits of left over chicken and fish from my dinners and arowana pellets.

[rayman45]

mine only eats live

[Euge]

Thanks for the replies everyone,

Contender: I didn't find that problem with my SH when he ate shrimps, they were small so he just swallowed them whole, no shells anywhere. I think recently though, my marulius ate a little red clawed crab i had in there. i can't seem to find it anywhere.

rumblesushi: Thats insane! If feeders were 3 dollars for one i think i'd have to shoot my self :screwy: . You should try raising your own feeders if you have a spare tank. Thats what i use to do with my Piranhas. If i plan on getting a SH in brighton then it'll be a lot of trouble fidning live food for it to eat.

Jelly: Damn it seems like your fish eats EVERYTHING. I haven't tried feeding my SH's raw meat yet but i'll try when they're bigger.

Can anyone please answer my question about whether or not i should just dump all the feeders into my SH tank and just let them eat when they want? Or should i put the feeders into the tank when its meal time? I'm leaving for university in 2 days and won't be able to see my SH's until xmas, but my dad is gonna be taking care of them.

[sharp tooth]

ive kept a good few different types of snakehead, there main diet what i used to feed most of them would be frozen fish, mussle, cockle, prawn, bloodworm, beefheart and earthworms.

[sgland]

Can anyone please answer my question about whether or not i should just dump all the feeders into my SH tank and just let them eat when they want? Or should i put the feeders into the tank when its meal time? I'm leaving for university in 2 days and won't be able to see my SH's until xmas, but my dad is gonna be taking care of them.
Since u r going away, it's ok to dump the whole lot. I don't see anything wrong with that except spoiling them a bit.

[IoStrisciare]

if you do want to dump all the feeders in, make sure you have a very very good filteration system going. Even if not hungry, SHs like to bite the tails off smaller fish. The stress inflicted on your feeders may cause some fatalities and hence a bunch of dead bodies in your tank.

[contender]

Thanks for the replies everyone,

Contender: I didn't find that problem with my SH when he ate shrimps, they were small so he just swallowed them whole, no shells anywhere. I think recently though, my marulius ate a little red clawed crab i had in there. i can't seem to find it anywhere.

i meant in their crap..... :ROFL:

i dont know what the deal was.... i threw in acouple of shrimp and a feeder, and it looked like it ate everything in about 4mins, and then crapped it all out 2 mins later... made a big mess...

anyone else experiene this?

$3 a feeder !!! wow.

living in Thailand, you get 20 nile talapia feeders for 25cents (USD) and about 100 fw shrimp for the same price... :woot:

[rumblesushi]

Here I buy 10 river shrimps for about 80p or something, which is about $1.50.

But feeders here are not legal, goes against some kinda animal rights etc, so I just have to buy a regular goldfish/molly etc which are at least 3 dollars in all the LFS.

It sucks.

[centaur]

I have 6 x channa panaw, 2 x channa "blue" bleheri in the same tank along with 1 x purple spotted gudgeon and 1xH. Malabaricus.

I feed them with tilapia frys I collected from the river beside my house.

[rumblesushi]

wow, how big is the hoplias compared to the other fish?

[deD3]

i feed mine with prawns,pork, chicken and whatever is the cheapest in the market now

[centaur]

My Hoplias is about the same size as the C. Panaw (4inch)

[jelly]

Sqratch. I feed meat to most of my fish, I avoid red meat as I have heard its hard for fish to digest and contains a high fat content.

I have a small Amazon setup and my neons love a bit of meat, its like watching minature pirahnas, which of course they are. My dwarf Cichlids love it to. I do cut it down to size and insure I remove any uneaten food.

On the going to Uni till xmas front, I would get your SH's eating pellets, It will be alot easier for your dad to maintain. Depends on how envolved he is likely to get.

[Calc]

sorry for bringing this old thread up, but you guys said earthworm, can i just get the earthworms from my backyard??

[DownUnder]

currently my micros is taking anything i throw in... it's a mixed diet of fish food and human foods which include beef heart, chicken, liver, mice, frog other den tat it's juz the usual fish feeders tat u get from any LFS... my bleheris are taking fish feeders ONLY... no human food... LoL...

cheers...

[woodyoz]

mine only eat live food...and only from ME
dojo loaches
clown loaches
goldfish
koi
shrimps
mollies
guppies
frogs
ans sometimes when im in good mood they get to eat smaller snakeheads

[tropheus]

sorry for bringing this old thread up, but you guys said earthworm, can i just get the earthworms from my backyard??


yes that is fine , also check out your local fishing bait shop ,they useally have a selection of live items

[Calc]

i am now feeding little goldfish feeders to them
my red sh is around 6 inch..how many feeders should i give them each day?

[n4red]

ehm i would say just put some in there and he will eat when hes hungry :)

[Calc]

is it good enough to feed them with feeders( goldfish) only?
or they might need something else as well? pellets...worms...etc..

[Gnuhen]

I just got my snakehead fish... check this tread out
http://www.monsterfishkeepers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168719
The only bad thing is that it hasnt been eating.. i have tried frozen blood worms, shrimps, and even carp fry's...

[Brucki]

Hi,

always feeding all the same is not enough.
Vary the diet, start as early as possible to get the fish used to various food.
If they dont learn it at young age, they often never will, and this causes health problems

Cheers Brucki