Silver aro advise from long term owners please?
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Throw it in the water in front of the aro to get its atention. I mean throw with a certain spalsh.
If it does not eat it in say half an hour, pick it out
This is what I would do. Also you should not be feeding an aro this size on a daily basis once every other day as long as he is eating aggressively, if he gets a little uninterested then stretch it to every third day or more if needed. This is what I've done and have never had any of mine go onto a strike.
You may use the bacon to an advantage though. Possibly rubbing the pellets with the bacon may entice your aro to eat them. Once it is eating the pellets regularly then stop with the baconizing of the pellets.
Once it eats pellets on a regular basis, expand the menu. If it tends to start liking other foods more and ignoring the pellets then stop feeding that food until the pellets are eagerly taken again.
I feel like the cooking channel...hmm bacon grease...
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With foods that sink I don't feed unless they are taken immediately, I don't let anything come to rest on the bottom. Though I don't really have to anymore as the clown loaches will grab and demolish it
I meant half an hour the first time, if it is a novelty for the aro.....only then.
Mine eat from wherever. Pick pellets from the bottom and spot the sand out....nothing stays there for more than 10 seconds...
Mine eat from wherever. Pick pellets from the bottom and spot the sand out....nothing stays there for more than 10 seconds...
predator fish need more fat then protien in their diets after they are past yoy stages. i am wondering why you are so against fat in their foods? pellets have high percentages of fat in them so what is the perpose if this extrem fat removal, it is counterdicted by you pellets.
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i recomend always having some kind of bottom feeder in all tanks for this reason. just about all foods except some pellets sink. food let for any time just creates ammonia.
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Did you read that somewhere? Fat does not belong in the water. Pellets are well balanced, with adequate measures ( high tier brands, of course ) of everything.
A fish does not need bacon, nor mamalian or avian fat and protein. If they eat in in nature it is once ina very long while.
Nobody needs more fat than protein. Neither, fish, nor dogs nor people.
i did read it in several places, one of them was a pellet/ aquatic farming resource. i ment higher fat content and lower protien then yoy fish. not more then protien. i am using my phone so things get mixed some times. i have to start rereadin my posts after i post them to avoid this mix.
pellets are well balenced, but things at the lower levels of the food chain that small inverts eat and convert into nutriants that higher fish eat and then get from them. dont get me wrong pellets are great, but not as a sole food source. that is my point.
there is fat in every food of one kind or another. all animals need fat in there diets. it just comes down to percents. if the fish is eating it right away then there is no point to be so concerned with any amount of fat in the foods. i am not saying to feed you fish a chunk of lard, but if there is some fat on the chicken you decide to give your fish it is not the end of the world.
look at salmons and trout. they are high in oils and fat by comparison. yet any fish that lives with/ feeds on them are larger and get there faster then any other fish.
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