While this may be good advice for most, certain predatory species benefit from live feedings. I feed live foods in addition to a well rounded diet including pellets, market shrimp, night crawlers, scallops, krill, live feeders and bite size cut up fish filets.GhostShrimpMan;4400780; said:What are we going to do with you
Moral of the thread, don't feed live, and fish will live for more than a week without food.
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If you check my sig line, you can see I keep lots of large predatory guapotes in a community setting. It has been my personal experience that live foods keep predatory piscavores like guapotes "happy". Keeping them happy is a large part of my success at having all five Parachromis species (all adults) including several breeding pairs together in the same tank.
For example, I feed three dozen night crawlers once a week. Also once a week or every other week, I feed eight dozen comets. They're all gone in minutes. And it gives the fishes a chance to be what nature has designed them to be, ambush hunters. These fishes were designed by nature to be killer piscavores. Denying this natural behavior can lead to unhappiness which can lead to nuisance aggression which can lead to murders of tankmates.
Now with that said, live foods aren't for everyone. A safe supply of live foods is of the utmost importance. A quality UV sterilizer is good insurance to guard against possible disease (and a good insurance policy in general regardless of the type of foods offered). You also need to make sure the amount of waste produced by the addition of live foods doesn't overwhelm your filtration's abilities. This isn't as much of a concern in a larger tank with a large filter.
Say what you will, but I call it like I see it from my real world experience instead of regurgitating conventional wisdom as if it were gospel. If I had listened to the conventional wisdom, I wouldn't have the stock list I have together for years without murders.
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