Fish that are designed to eat fish such as Jags should be fed feeders am I right??? On multiple sites it said that they are designed to eat soft rayed fish. What is a example of a soft rayed fish??? and would this be a good diet considering it is his natural diet??
Feeding Carnivores
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in the wild there arent "feeders" jags and apex predators eat smaller fish, fish that live in the wild and eat natural food and such. the fish they eat are essentially gutloaded by their habitat, are more muscular than feeders and are disease free.
DrZacharyus;1042126; said:
ohhh I understand that... I don't mean to feed them store bought goldfish etc.... I was thinking of breeding my own convicts or guppies or something like that. Feed them a good diet and then use them as feeders.
You should still supplement with pellets, frozen foods, other types of live foods, etc.
Even in the wild, just because they're carnivores doesn't mean they only eat fish. In the wild they would be eating bugs, crustaceans and anything else in the water that caught their attention. Not to mention a wide variety of fish whose stomach contents would consist of bugs, crustaceans, mollusks, plants and anything else THEY had eaten.
My mbuna are primarily vegetarians because their diet is primarily algae, HOWEVER, they will still chase after and eat small fish, crustaceans and other creatures, so I'm doubting that in the wild they ONLY eat algae.
Feeding just one facet of a fishes diet does not make a healthy fish.
So hopefully you're not planning on feeding only fish, because that wouldn't make for a well rounded diet no matter how many species of fish you fed them daily.
Even in the wild, just because they're carnivores doesn't mean they only eat fish. In the wild they would be eating bugs, crustaceans and anything else in the water that caught their attention. Not to mention a wide variety of fish whose stomach contents would consist of bugs, crustaceans, mollusks, plants and anything else THEY had eaten.
My mbuna are primarily vegetarians because their diet is primarily algae, HOWEVER, they will still chase after and eat small fish, crustaceans and other creatures, so I'm doubting that in the wild they ONLY eat algae.
Feeding just one facet of a fishes diet does not make a healthy fish.
So hopefully you're not planning on feeding only fish, because that wouldn't make for a well rounded diet no matter how many species of fish you fed them daily.
Many fishkeepers refuse to feed live food to their fish. You can feed high quality prepared foods and fresh/frozen items from the market and still give your fish a healthy and varied diet.
ShadowBass;1042637; said:
good points... and no I was not planning at all on feeding only feeders.... to be honest with all my tanks and years I think I have fed feeders maybe like 6 times in my whole life. They were mostly for a LMB that I had
IMO, it's cool seing carnivore fish act predatory, but I feed live feeders sparingly, and I always make sure they are disease free, and healthy.