Feed frontosa feeders

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Jag586

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I've been thinking about using some feeder fish to add to my fronts diet I was going to breed convicts and use they fry I read in nature frontosa will feed at night when fish are sleeping so my idea was going to be to get a bunch of convict fry and freeze em in cubes then drop em in at night not as a staple but as a add in

Your ideas?


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convict360

convict360

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I must be soft, but that sounds quite brutal for the fry. I guess putting them in live, they would survive though...as cons do.

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Jag586

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It's not cruel it's like farming, on a smaller scale I buy frozen chicken from the store why can't I freeze my own fish food.

I like the idea of "growing" my own food that's why I was going the convict route I will still buy krill, blood worms, and have pellets just thinking of another food source


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Actually you could get some cherry red shrimp, breed them and use them for food. I haven't tried it yet but they are supposedly very easy to breed. I don't feed my Fronts fish as I don't want to encourage the behavior. I don't want them to assume any fish I add to the tank is food, and I have been pretty lucky being able to keep a colony of Jumbo Cyps with them.
 
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See I was scared because I read that feeding feeders would encourage teach them that small fry are food and they may eat their own fry.. I'll look into the cherry shrimp I did have ghost shrimp for a while but cherries would be easier for the fronts to see


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Oddball said:
Instead of breeding convicts, how about setting up a breeding colony of Cyprichromis sp.? Fish of this genus are what the fronts primarily prey upon in the wild.
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While I have heard of people doing this, I can't quite understand why, as cyps. Are generally pretty e pensive fish, and you can sell the fry for some good money... Very expensive feeders IMO

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