Do bass need a variety?
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Variety is good for any fish. I highly suggest you try to get those bass on pellets. Also try frozen foods like squid and shrimp. They should take other live foods like worms, crayfish, crickets etc. If feeders are the only thing you're using I suggest QTing them and gut loading them with high quality foods so the bass can get some nutrition through them.
Feeders are VERY high prone to diseases and parasites. It is best to buy a 10g tank or tub and use it to quarantine all feeders. Not just a few feeders, either, but make sure you have enough.
What sandtiger was referring to is stocking the feeder fish with high quality foods such as frozen brine, bloodworms, or mysis shrimp before feeding to your bass, so when the bass eat the feeders they also get a belly of quality nutrition. I suggest cutting back on the feeders slowly until your fish are literally begging for food, then try something like market shrimp, silversides, crayfish, etc. to try to wean them off of feeder fish..... Or you could always breed your own feeder fish!
What sandtiger was referring to is stocking the feeder fish with high quality foods such as frozen brine, bloodworms, or mysis shrimp before feeding to your bass, so when the bass eat the feeders they also get a belly of quality nutrition. I suggest cutting back on the feeders slowly until your fish are literally begging for food, then try something like market shrimp, silversides, crayfish, etc. to try to wean them off of feeder fish..... Or you could always breed your own feeder fish!
All fish do better with varied diets, with the exception of a very few specialty feeders from SW. Bass will usually adapt quite well to cut fish and market shrimp if not pellets. Try using a single live feeders and several cut shrimp. They should also take live shrimp, grasshoppers, crickets, live shrimp, and earthworms.