I'm gonna have to disagree with the others, before I weaned my Leichardti onto Cichlid Gold pellets I fed him heaps of cockroaches, he loved them. A good source of free food if you can be sure no pesticides have been used, and providing you can be bothered to catch them.
cockroaches?
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cr8on;2625415; said:
I feed my lil 3" jar cockroaches every time I catch one crawling around. Cockroaches are safe if you know their not sprayed by any bug killer. My lil jar tear up a big cockroach once coz its to big for it to swallow, some of my cichlid got the spoils.
I once saw an article that one farm in asia breed cockroaches to only feed for their aros, well they boil the roaches first by the way.
I'll have to disagree with the disagreers. My arowana's tank was in the kitchen, and we hadn't noticed that cockroaches had begun living under the filter (like, between the filter and the lip of the tank). Well, what we did notice once was that a cockroach fell in the water and the arowana ate it. We didn't think much of it, but I'm assuming this happened often, considering the cockroaches were living RIGHT THERE, and pretty soon afterwards my arowana got sick. I put her on meds and she got better for a little while, but then she got sick again and died.
Don't feed cockroaches you just caught in your house. If you want to breed them, fine, but not the wild ones. Who knows what parasites they have. And what if they ate some of that Raid poison that takes a while to work? Our aros deserve much more caution.
Don't feed cockroaches you just caught in your house. If you want to breed them, fine, but not the wild ones. Who knows what parasites they have. And what if they ate some of that Raid poison that takes a while to work? Our aros deserve much more caution.
If you use some pesticide on the house, do not feed them, period.
If you buy them ( as I do ) from the LFS, they're a good source of nutrition.
If you buy them ( as I do ) from the LFS, they're a good source of nutrition.
