So Ive had my rhom for about a year now and have been feeding live and shrimp for a while now. Im wondering if I start feeding pellets and leaving the shrimp and live will he eventually start with the pellets? If so how long does this usually take for them to change their diet?
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at the very least, i would recommend sticking with shrimp and other non-live foods.
to get your fish on pellets, i would start with eliminating live foods... i think it would be too hard to just switch straight from live to pellets. after a few weeks of no live foods, you could start introducing pellets and see if it goes for them. if, after a couple weeks, it is still showing no interest in pellets, you could stop all other food choices until it cooperates, which usually only takes a week or so.
to get your fish on pellets, i would start with eliminating live foods... i think it would be too hard to just switch straight from live to pellets. after a few weeks of no live foods, you could start introducing pellets and see if it goes for them. if, after a couple weeks, it is still showing no interest in pellets, you could stop all other food choices until it cooperates, which usually only takes a week or so.
JoeDizzleMPLS;3602581; said:
I thought about making my own thread but this is kinda the same topic so i'll just ask here.
I started feeding my shoal of 8 reds pellets maybe 2 months ago. I had a huge variet goin (market shrimp, fish, bloodworm, crickets, earthworm, krill, some veggie they'd steal from the pleco) but once I introduced pellets they stopped being interested in the market shrimp and fish. They'd take a nip and then let it sit and maybe within an hour they'd eat it or i'd remove it. I drop 40 pellets in and they start eating them before i finish dropping them in.
Should I try to work fish and shrimp back into the diet or just go forward with the pellets? There's 3 different types of pellets they eat so it's somehwhat of a variet and they still love earth worm but have gotten too big for krill and bloodworm. I don't care too much about what they eat but i've just got a freezer full of shrimp and fish already pre cut for them.
The more variety, the better. As long as it's a quality food and they ate it, I'd feed it to them. All my Pygos go nuts for Angels Plus' ''Meat Eater Flakes.'' and I feed it a lot but supplement anything I can get mine to eat...Which is virtually anything.
Whenever I switch a fish over from live I quit feeding it live altogether and offer the alternative food 3-4 times daily until they eat. I also try variety to find something the fish likes.
Whenever I switch a fish over from live I quit feeding it live altogether and offer the alternative food 3-4 times daily until they eat. I also try variety to find something the fish likes.
variety is definitely the key to a healthy diet.... tho if someone were to go with one food, a high quality pellet (or two different high quality pellets) would be a good choice since they are formulated to be a complete diet (as long as they are carnivorous pellets).
if they aren't showing much interest in the shrimp and fish anymore, i would probably start spacing your feedings out a bit... usually when a group of pygos starts acting picky with their foods, it just means that they are being offered food a bit too often so they are able to pick and choose what they eat. what's your feeding schedule like now?
if they aren't showing much interest in the shrimp and fish anymore, i would probably start spacing your feedings out a bit... usually when a group of pygos starts acting picky with their foods, it just means that they are being offered food a bit too often so they are able to pick and choose what they eat. what's your feeding schedule like now?
what's your feeding schedule like now?
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My Piraya eat far more than my Nattereri. On the typical day I'll feed a mixture of 4 different type of flakes from Angels Plus first thing in the morning. I wait until the afternoon and will try to feed them pellets [I alternate between Bio- Gold, Angel Plus and some I bought at Wal-Mart. I'll drop a couple shrimp and couple chunks of Catfish in the evening. They eat almost every time.
My Natts will eat a couple flakes in the morning and a few pellets in the evening. I feed them about a 1/2lb fillet every two days or so. I also include shrimp, chicken breast, krill, crab and beef heart thrown in on a random schedule.
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My Piraya eat far more than my Nattereri. On the typical day I'll feed a mixture of 4 different type of flakes from Angels Plus first thing in the morning. I wait until the afternoon and will try to feed them pellets [I alternate between Bio- Gold, Angel Plus and some I bought at Wal-Mart. I'll drop a couple shrimp and couple chunks of Catfish in the evening. They eat almost every time.
My Natts will eat a couple flakes in the morning and a few pellets in the evening. I feed them about a 1/2lb fillet every two days or so. I also include shrimp, chicken breast, krill, crab and beef heart thrown in on a random schedule.
JoeDizzleMPLS;3605109; said:
Twice a day. Before work (between 7-8AM) and after work (5-7PM). I probably skip the night meal once a week.
They're probably ranging from 4 to 5 inches. I stick my credit card on the stand as a reference and they swim above it. It's 3.2 inches and they're exceeding that by an inch or two.
In my situation what would you do? Space out the feeding to offer more variety or continue on with the current schedule with them eating primarily pellets.
ballin, in your situation, i would recommend spacing out the feedings a bit. i know that it seems like you should keep them stuffed full of food at all times in order to cut down on aggression, but at that size, they should be out of the stage where they are constantly trying to eat each other.
since they have been eating so much, i wouldn't do anything drastic right away, but slowly work some space in between feedings. i would start by getting them onto once a day feedings and then you can start skipping a day here and there as they get used to the new feeding schedule, you can keep doing that until you get to the schedule that you feel comfortable with.
what i usually aim for with all of my fish, groups of pygos included, is a totally random schedule by the time they hit about 6", it usually works out to about once or twice a week.
since they have been eating so much, i wouldn't do anything drastic right away, but slowly work some space in between feedings. i would start by getting them onto once a day feedings and then you can start skipping a day here and there as they get used to the new feeding schedule, you can keep doing that until you get to the schedule that you feel comfortable with.
what i usually aim for with all of my fish, groups of pygos included, is a totally random schedule by the time they hit about 6", it usually works out to about once or twice a week.