beefheart...?

[eminas]

Hey guys,

i have heard here and there that beef heart is the stuff if u want to get your polys cranking... ( actual beef heart, rather than the frozen packet stuff )

im sure you guys use the stuff... or do you? if so, how do u find it? any good?.... messy?

cheers,
e.

 

[eman b115]

I get mine from my local butcher shop; I have to call them in advance because it's not something they keep in the store. My current fishes love the stuff; I feed them beefheart, market shrimp, and silversides and my dats love em. A few of the bichirs I kept in the past also ate the beefheart.

 

[abluechipstock]

i was going to ask the same thing, i feed all my central and south americans beefheart and they have done very well, i also feed other stuff also, i too get it from the butcher, it's a lot cheaper than the store bought, they trim the fat and veins for me also, it also makes a good treat for your dog also, thanks

 

[nachocheese70]

I use the frozen beefhearts right now, but my bichirs love it. The only thing they love more is live blackworms. The krill, grocery store shrimp, grocery store fish (tuna, tilapia - going to try salmon next), and Hikari pellets they only tolerate. In fact, I've had to eventually remove uneaten since they weren't interested (but as an experiment, I then immediately dropped some beefheart or blackworm, and they all go nuts right away) - or leave it overnight and most of the time they will eventually pick away at it (though I've had to remove some krill or fish pieces after an overnight session).

 

[frasertheking]

i can never get beef heart at my butchers so i use lamb heart . i blend it up with peas ,spinnach and some womans health vitamins and freeze it for my discus .

 

[mbunafishkeeper]

yeh call the Lbuthers and ask them to keep you a couple.

 

[killerfish]

mine love the stuff but the problem is finding it i do'nt have any butcher shops near me and king soopers or any other store doesn't have it

 

[lymiq]

going to try salmon next

salmon is oily .. buy small amount if you want to try it ... catfish and flounder are also oily .. took a good week w/ major water change to clear up ... i ended up grilling the catfish and give them to the dog ...

 

[Mr Pleco]

salmon is oily .. buy small amount if you want to try it ... catfish and flounder are also oily .. took a good week w/ major water change to clear up ... i ended up grilling the catfish and give them to the dog ...

Only feed them what they immediately eat, anything left over net out.....My Aro loved salmon slices and chicken slices, fed him too well, he outgrew my 180 in around 6 months. .Whatever I was eating for dinner , he ate .

 

[eminas]

"i blend it up with peas ,spinnach and some womans health vitamins" fasertheking.

Hahaha... ive never heard of that...womens health vitamins...is it common for these to be fed to fish?