Feeding silversides.

[freak78]

So I was wondering I tried the frozen silversides for my polypterus endlicheri and it loved them. Now how many at a time should I feed. I fed it one last night so should I just feed it as a treat and use the pellets or should I just mix it up between the two? Still new to polys and just learning from the more experienced. Thanks

 

[ExoticGREEN]

Should be fed as staple. both if you want bulk

 

[Polyaddict86]

Try frozen tilapia fillet, you can buy them at walmart 3lbs for $10,just defroze it and cut it into small pieces, i would use tilapia and pellets as staple, silverside as treat cause they are expensive, if you can find smelt it work good too, i usually find the smelt frozen at a asian store

 

[Dr.B]

A healthy varied diet is always beneficial to polys

 

[freak78]

I'm gonna have to try some smelt too.

 

[freak78]

 

[DMD123]

Dont feed those expensive pet store silversides as a staple. You will go broke! Keep them as a treat and use a different fish as a main staple food. Like Polyaddict86 said tilapia is the way to go for cost.

 

[freak78]

I had just bought some to try them out and see if it liked them. Which it does so now I will move to something cheaper but feed them like was mentioned as a treat.

 

[Polyaddict86]

The way to do it, is starve the poly for 2-3 days then try to dump the cut tilapia in the tank.