Cooking feeders

[david17]

ok, just have a few days with my aros, they are all eating live foods, today i went for a bag of 50 smal lfeeder shads, i saw like 3 with bump in their body so i discarted them, then feed the rest a lot of cushed NLS food, after that did a extreme salt bath, for 20 min.

they are all dead

i knew this was going to happen, im sure my aros will eat them anyway.
but now im thinking that i should heat the in low(because i think in high they will explode)for let say 4 minutes on the microwave to be sure every parasite is dead.

good idea or bad idea?

should i just flush all the feeders because of the parasites?

 

[oscarcrazy]

Flush em. Don't ruin your microwave.

 

[david17]

Flush em. Don't ruin your microwave.

already did, better to play safe with the aros.

 

[fishman646]

better to play safe with any fish! feeders are a waste! unless you breed them

 

[Cichlaholics Anonymous]

good decision to discard them, wouldn't risk the fish's health

 

[evojoey]

I agree with everyone. Like fishman said, I don't trust any feeder fish unless it came from one of my breeder tanks.

 

[xmurdererx]

put them in a quaratine tank for maybe few days-2 weeks and use some bacterial and parasite medecine that might get rid of it

 

[syddakyd]

those bumps could be an internal worm. i had rosy red minnows in a pond and some had white bumps all over i was like wtf. one was so bad i caught it and decided to kill it ou of mercy. well i had it on a rock and noticed one moved...i was like wtf gross. so i took a stick and squeezed it out and there were a whole bunch of disgusting white worms.

 

[david17]

put them in a quaratine tank for maybe few days-2 weeks and use some bacterial and parasite medecine that might get rid of it

I did it, if by quaratine tank do you mean a fancy kind of toilet, and by bacteria medicine you mean lysol.

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[david17]

Now I'm thinking the feeders they feed them at the lfs, they must had parasites, but at least they didn't look as bad as the ones I brought today from another LFS

I must treat my aros!

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