I am starting a tank with Geophagus Sveni. I have seen the different foods to feed them. My question is about feeding flake foods. They seem to all be floating food. I though you need to feed them food that sinks? Can anyone fill me in on the flake foods for Geophagus? Thanks, John
Feeding Geophagus Sveni Flake Food
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Mix ur flakes in a cup of water then dump them in, theyll sink no problem ?. I do this to avoid them being sucked right into my overflows and wasted…
I have a mixed tank with geos and tetras so I often put flake in there, and they don't seem to care for it at all. The flake I use sinks after 30 seconds or do and they still mostly ignore it. They absolutely love the xtreme pellets though.
Pinch a wad and swirl your pinch in the tank to moisten and it will sink.
Get very small sinking pellets. Bug Bites, most NLS, etc. are sinking pellets. Geos eat by sifting sand and filtering out bits of food, so I find that they don’t eat larger pellets well. Even my large Geos only get 1mm pellets. Feed them something easy to sift for.
I've fed mine flakes sometimes. Ime they like flakes just fine if they like the taste of the product. There's no need to soak, pinch, etc. if you just release the flakes into your filter current to blow them around. Not only that, I also feed mine freeze dried mysis, a floating food, and they do just fine going after it.
Ime with sveni and other geos, if they like a food they'll go where the food is, especially if they're comfortable in a tank, not intimidated by other fish, etc. Even for sinking pellets mine come right to the surface and snap half of them up before they ever hit the sand, then they go sifting for more. I've had zero issues feeding 2-3 mm pellets to geos, not if they like the product. My main reason for feeding smaller pellets when they're available in a particular product, particularly to smaller geos, is it keeps them busy for a while vs. filling up quickly on a larger pellet.
Ime with sveni and other geos, if they like a food they'll go where the food is, especially if they're comfortable in a tank, not intimidated by other fish, etc. Even for sinking pellets mine come right to the surface and snap half of them up before they ever hit the sand, then they go sifting for more. I've had zero issues feeding 2-3 mm pellets to geos, not if they like the product. My main reason for feeding smaller pellets when they're available in a particular product, particularly to smaller geos, is it keeps them busy for a while vs. filling up quickly on a larger pellet.
I remember when Tetramin was the top brand many moons ago and some people would just feed that to their fish. Believe it or not some of the fish lived along time.
