How about letting me hear about what you like/don't like to feed your fish? When I kept red bellies my favorite was frogs because they would hit from behind and leave the feet slowly sinking to the bottom. Rats were not allowed because it really messes up the water. A friend had a couple of big aros in an indoor pond that he fed ducklings. That was pretty cool because first they would be swimming around and the, schop! they would be gone.
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One of the sickest ones ive heard is feeding asian arowanas cultured jumbo cockroaches. They sell those by the bottle.. .ALIVE!!
Im having goosebumps thinking about it.,
I love to feed common guppies to my fish. Its not too fatty and they are not mistreated as bad as feeder goldfish and minnows.
Im having goosebumps thinking about it.,
I love to feed common guppies to my fish. Its not too fatty and they are not mistreated as bad as feeder goldfish and minnows.
Oh yeah i feed all my fish market shrimp almost exclusively.
They get fat like crazy , grow fast and generally look very healthy.
They get fat like crazy , grow fast and generally look very healthy.
what's so messy about the rats, exactly? Their intestinal contents spilling out, or the blood, or the fur? and did you feed RATS or just mice? I love the ducklings idea, sounds awesome.
I feed my 200g and 55g cichlid tanks (the species comprise of a couple smaller CAs and a dozen or so african rift-lakers, and everythings in the 3"-9" size range) anything that moves. I feed them mummichog killifish, tetras of all types, smaller barbs of all types, danios, small gouramies, red claw crabs, ghost shrimp, small gobies, livebearers of all sorts, an oranda goldfish, and, well.. pretty much anything that's readily available at a LFS at a relatively inexpensive price
The faster fish species (tetras, danios, fathead minnows) are fun to watch because they are so fast; they make for awesome chases.
A certain LFS got some exodons in recently, selling em for 6 bucks apiece, I've been meaning to head over there and throw some of those guys in; everyone says they are greased lightning.
I'd like to buy some african dwarf frogs but those things cost 7-8 bucks everywhere, and being a mere college kid I do have my monetary limits for spending.
One recent spectacle I witnessed was my throwing a 3" male sailfin molly in the 200g. I had bought the molly, who was the dominant fish in its tank at the lfs, for 6 bucks, in the interest of keeping it as company for a 4" mummichog in a 10g. Those two fish battled one another for dominance for about 2 weeks, the victories going back and forth, and while the mummichog had the undisputed physical superiority, the molly just would NOT relent, and in the end the mummichog found itself unwilling to make full use of its physical capabilities, and relented to the molly for good. After seeing about a week of that, I decided to plop the molly in the 200g, since I was much more interested in the mummichog.
That molly made for quite a show; it only lasted about 1 minute for him, but that full minute was full of fascinating strife. Upon hitting the water, it raised its sail up and shook its body in defiance, but my 3"-5" africans sicc'ed upon it like a pack of hellhounds anyway! I mean that molly literally recieved bites from all sides at once. The africans fought amongst each other for this sail-up-pissy-looking molly like it was already a dead fish, and each african took turns taking the best jaw seizure and shaking/thrashing this molly up while the others desperately tried to seize control of the molly's body. Its big pretty sailfin was utterly nonexistent in about 20 seconds, and after a minute or so the molly was ravaged beyond all hope, and drifted about lifelessly while the struggle for its body endured. It can take my fish about 20-60 minutes to fully dismantle and consume a fish of this size; they're only cichlids after all, jaws aren't really designed to bite like a piranha.
I feed my 200g and 55g cichlid tanks (the species comprise of a couple smaller CAs and a dozen or so african rift-lakers, and everythings in the 3"-9" size range) anything that moves. I feed them mummichog killifish, tetras of all types, smaller barbs of all types, danios, small gouramies, red claw crabs, ghost shrimp, small gobies, livebearers of all sorts, an oranda goldfish, and, well.. pretty much anything that's readily available at a LFS at a relatively inexpensive price
The faster fish species (tetras, danios, fathead minnows) are fun to watch because they are so fast; they make for awesome chases.
A certain LFS got some exodons in recently, selling em for 6 bucks apiece, I've been meaning to head over there and throw some of those guys in; everyone says they are greased lightning.
I'd like to buy some african dwarf frogs but those things cost 7-8 bucks everywhere, and being a mere college kid I do have my monetary limits for spending.
One recent spectacle I witnessed was my throwing a 3" male sailfin molly in the 200g. I had bought the molly, who was the dominant fish in its tank at the lfs, for 6 bucks, in the interest of keeping it as company for a 4" mummichog in a 10g. Those two fish battled one another for dominance for about 2 weeks, the victories going back and forth, and while the mummichog had the undisputed physical superiority, the molly just would NOT relent, and in the end the mummichog found itself unwilling to make full use of its physical capabilities, and relented to the molly for good. After seeing about a week of that, I decided to plop the molly in the 200g, since I was much more interested in the mummichog.
That molly made for quite a show; it only lasted about 1 minute for him, but that full minute was full of fascinating strife. Upon hitting the water, it raised its sail up and shook its body in defiance, but my 3"-5" africans sicc'ed upon it like a pack of hellhounds anyway! I mean that molly literally recieved bites from all sides at once. The africans fought amongst each other for this sail-up-pissy-looking molly like it was already a dead fish, and each african took turns taking the best jaw seizure and shaking/thrashing this molly up while the others desperately tried to seize control of the molly's body. Its big pretty sailfin was utterly nonexistent in about 20 seconds, and after a minute or so the molly was ravaged beyond all hope, and drifted about lifelessly while the struggle for its body endured. It can take my fish about 20-60 minutes to fully dismantle and consume a fish of this size; they're only cichlids after all, jaws aren't really designed to bite like a piranha.
I know first hand that cichlids love to eat insects, grapes and berries. Think about it. What do wild fish eat in their environment? Proably anything that hits the water.
Seven 8" red bellies vs one 8"(not conting tail) city black Rattus norwegicus, lots of bits and pieces, lots of blood, had to change the filter and kept finding bits on the intakes. As for cheaper frogs, ask at the science dept. of your college to see if they will loan you a educational supply catalogue. They ussually carry leopard and pikeral frogs cheaper than bait shops, I just caught my own on a small bright red bb head fly and a bamboo pole, it was a nice afternoon for a couple of dozen frogs.
That's amazing. Another fellow on a different forum tried feeding a similar-sized rat to 30 6-12" mixed pygos on another forum a while back (big tank, I think it was 360g), and the pygos all cowered in a corner while the rat swam about. He had to pull the rat out, and it was utterly untouched.