beef heart
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Die Fledermaus;469581; said:I get mine at Ralphs grocery store.
WTF!!!!
I WORK THERE!!!!!
and i havnt seen any!!!!!
once again, WTF!!!!!!
Ruger345;472017; said:
Don't waste your money on this scam. Here is what I do for piranhas... Go to the butcher, ask the guy for a whole beef heart. There's always one lying around here. Frozen or not, don't matter. Costs me 7$ CDN (that's like 5$ US) for one big ass heart.
Get home, thaw it if frozen, sit with a cutting pad and your knife and chop away. Get the fat and nasty stuff out, keep the muscle. Chop in strips, then cubes of about 1/2". Place all cubes in ice cube trays, cover properly with plastic wrap or such, put in freezer.
A whole heart fills 5-6 ice cube trays, all for 5$. For 5$ at the LFS you get nothing LOL. Your piranhas will enjoy taking bites off the cubes, and you will enjoy seeing them tear at it...believe me.
Another cheap feeding idea: go to the fish market and buy "eperlan" (that's the french name, don't know english look it up). It's a 4-5" long fish, sold emptied with the head chopped off. I can buy about 20 here for 1.89$...my piranhas dig this, I drop one in the tank and it's gone in about 3 seconds.
Besides pellet food at the LFS, everything else is a rip-off and there's always a cheaper alternative...just gotta look around for it.
I was wondering about this one myself. I feed the Frozen Beefheart to my husband's Clown Knife and Electric Catfish. Been thinking of trying it with my Piranahs. Good trick with the fresh Heart from the butcher. Definantly will have to ask around for some.