Feeders worth doing/getting?

[Adamrhh]

I have a spare 20L laying around... would something like these
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=830+1535+3185&pcatid=3185

even be beneficial to buy maybe once a year (so lets say feeding 100 over a course of 6 months??)

I was just kind of thinking they would be good for fish (oscar in this example) to get some live food in them every so often? By the way the oscar is like 4-5" max


*Also edit*

This is JUST go help the oscar grow!!! not forever... so basically I am asking..

do you think this would be something good to buy for a growing baby oscar to help him grow strong

 

[Gruff Master]

IMO a staple quality pellet would be more beneficial and cheaper. An Oscar will have a healthy growth rate on a good staple diet, adequate housing, and regular water changes. A few small Tetra's over the course of six months aren't going to contribute much dietary wise.

 

[Adamrhh]

IMO a staple quality pellet would be more beneficial and cheaper. An Oscar will have a healthy growth rate on a good staple diet, adequate housing, and regular water changes. A few small Tetra's over the course of six months aren't going to contribute much dietary wise.

alright thanks I'll just stick to hikari small pellets which is ultimately the best for him in the long run anyways

 

[FishGuy1972]

When my Texas was young I use to give him 4-5 rosey reds once a week, I feel feeding live food helps growth.

 

[Adamrhh]

When my Texas was young I use to give him 4-5 rosey reds once a week, I feel feeding live food helps growth.

This is what I'm kind of thinking.. just to spark his growth just short term until he starts growing good and healthy

 

[Gruff Master]

When my Texas was young I use to give him 4-5 rosey reds once a week, I feel feeding live food helps growth.

Not an ideal food to offer cichlids. They are fatty and not very nutritional. Depending on the conditions of the tanks they are held at the store or at the facilities where they were raised, Rosey Reds, Comets, Goldfish can also introduce various diseases and bacteria to your aquarium stock. Also these fish naturally produce Thiaminase enzymes which renders B1, an important metabolic compound, useless or inactive. So over an extended period of feeding these types of fish to your cichlids, you can actually be shortening their life and causing great harm to them. If you absolutely must feed these types of fish, make sure they are a very small part of a diet comprising mostly of a quality flake or pellet food. Some people even gut load Rosey Reds with quality prepared food. But why do that if your fish will already readily accept the same prepared food? I don't see a valid reason to risk any of this in this case. Beefing up a fish doesn't necessarily make it healthy.