rybo;4596528; said:
This is false.. I have a few species of fish that are very finicky eaters. They get live foods along with their pellets and frozen. and live foods properly offered are often times as good or imo better then any pelleted diet you can offer. There are a few key words in there. No single diet is ever the best. variety is key.
Crack kills mmmkay?...OP there is alot of info in the gar forum about nutrition and feeding your gars if you do a quick search.
- guppies
- floating pellets
- freezedried krill
- crickets
all make a good base-line diet. ALL of these foods. personally I fed my florida guppies, rosy minnows, then goldfish. all QTed and throughly checked for illness and parasites. I also make a habit of deworming the tank every 6 monthes or so. nearing the end of his first year now he's approx 14". If yours will take frozen all the better. but offer as wide a variety and don't just offer his favorites or you will end up with a fish that will refuse anything but 1 or 2 of it's favorite foods.
a baby that small should be fed... and eatting. starving them at that size will = a death or stunting. Get them eating and healthy before trying to add to their diets. It's unlikelky they will take anything but freeze dried krill or live foods. crickets and guppie would be my suggestion. once eating and putting on some weight add some pellets to their usual ration. Once mine started takeing crickets from the top, adding pellets was very easy. krill/shrimp freeze dried also are stinky and may be readily taken as well if pellets are ignored, but crickets aren't
