oh its possible and very simple actually, i definatly reccomend it
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cost per week to feed your beasts
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jerppyjerp;495775; said:
Oh i get 2 kilos of brine for six bucks.. infact i just received 10 kilos for free, this is a regular thing for me
I also have been getting free pellets from Hartz lately.. And Friends that buy me feeders just to see my fish eat ... Plus i have some beef heart that i feed here and there.. I thinks i've spent 10.00 of my own in the past 3 months My P-bass are 5"-6" i have a 13" Gar, to 13" inch ID Sharks, two 5" and 7" inch Demspeys and of coarse the 9-10" Oscar.. Then in the 55 i have a 4" Oscar and to Blue acara's, and a female con.. Then i have 6 - 2" Spotted puffers in the 30... and a gold fish, 2 angels and a clown loach in the 15. and a 3" bicher in the 10"... I think i'm doin pretty good... on top of all the free food everyone else brings over..
Then i am pretty good at collecting earthworms from my lawn as well 
my 180 gal tank with datnoids consume 1/2lb of market shrimp every three days.. it boils down to around 1 lb a week. that would be around $6 unless the market price of shrimp goes up. plus three dollars of feeders (XL size) for two of my big dats that are not yet trained to eat shrimps.
180 gal would total to $9 a week
my 60 gal tank would consume some pellets and frozen blood worm (one pack a week)
60 gal would total to $2 a week
my 10 gal with 4 delhenzi and 2 ornate bichirs are being power feed. cost of feeders would be $9 a week plus some shrimp from the 180 tank.
10 gal tank total of $9 a week
Total cost per week would be $20
a month would be $80.. come to think of it.. i need to sell some of my fish.. i will go broke on them.
180 gal would total to $9 a week
my 60 gal tank would consume some pellets and frozen blood worm (one pack a week)
60 gal would total to $2 a week
my 10 gal with 4 delhenzi and 2 ornate bichirs are being power feed. cost of feeders would be $9 a week plus some shrimp from the 180 tank.
10 gal tank total of $9 a week
Total cost per week would be $20
a month would be $80.. come to think of it.. i need to sell some of my fish.. i will go broke on them.
i spend about $6 on my knives and pbass, and dat($6 worth of feeders here works out to about 200-250 feeders)
$7 on shrimp for my pipefish( that works out to a couple hundred ghost shrimp)
and then pellets and freeze dried food for the rest of the tanks, 14 in all.
so probably spend about $15-$18 a week
$7 on shrimp for my pipefish( that works out to a couple hundred ghost shrimp)
and then pellets and freeze dried food for the rest of the tanks, 14 in all.
so probably spend about $15-$18 a week
between my 3 10" peacock bass, my 8" crenicichla sp atabapo, 9" lima shovelnose, and my 13" tiger shovelnose they go through about 200 feeders a week so roughly $20 a week. They also get local caught red fin shiners, common minnows, fat head minnows and such for free when I have time to go cast netting. Then the occasional couple bucks for nightcrawlers. For all the tanks the total food bill per month is probably around $75-80~Trent
Kuda;495748; said:
Why have them on pellets? My personal opinion is that feeding them pellets everyday would be like me eating cereal everyday, and I certainly wouldn't want to do that. I like feeding my pbass, and all of my predatory fish actually, meaty foods. They appear to thrive off of it, and my wide bar dats are growing nearly an inch a month. I don't have any problems with people feeding pellets, but it's just not my number one choice.
blacktip;497249; said:
exactly what im saying, u can condition them on anything, then they will hit whatever hits the water, i say pellets cause u can buy large quanaties to last sometime, and mix with feeders, and lol i dont know about your theory on feeding pellets everyday, what abot dogs...they eat dogfood everyday, but u can give them scraps and leftovers and such, and u can get pellets to cover all basic nutrition, anyway its just a way to not have to have a supply of feeders, everybodys different, but by the way, i wouldent mind eating cereal everydsy......
anyway man just stating a point,