Is it safe to feed my fish silversides and butterfish and stuff like that to my fish?? I have a friend that owns a baitshop and i can get food like that really cheap. I would be feeding it to my arowana, datnoid, endlie, and motoro
Bait shop silversides?
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know where the bait is coming from and what regs it's passed. likely it's better for your fish then goldfish. at least on a thiamine level if not nutritional. Be wary of heavy meds or if they come from a hatchery or collected. These should be questions easily answered by your friend. Any live food should still be QTed to avoid disease/parasites.
if you do definitely quarantine them and treat them for all kinds of parasites and all that stuff... when i was a kid we had a largemouth bass from 1" to about 3lbs and he eventually died on his 2nd bout of ich from baitshop shiners, never got sick from feeder goldfish surprisingly
oh, well i feel dumb. haha - if they're frozen any parasites they may have had should be dead from the cold so i don't see why not
I've never had any probs from frozen silvers, but if you ever do get live as said before be careful where you source them from- could contain all sorts of nasties.
ah Frozen.. shouldn't be an issue, long as they're properly frozen. I even hit up my seafood dept when grocery shopping for deals on Tilapia, Anchovies, Shrimp, ect.
