Gonna' try to get mine on Carnivore sticks.Anybody agree? Good choice as a staple,or supplementation needed?????
Feeding Largemouth mice,safe??
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Largemouthbadbass;535259; said:Gonna' try to get mine on Carnivore sticks.Anybody agree? Good choice as a staple,or supplementation needed?????
Try drop training it to Tetra Jumbomin pellets. You want the fish to eat these quickly which is why drop training will work best.
To drop train get the fish used to getting all food right at the surface. Drop one worm, Mealworm, cricket. minnow etc. at a time, in one set area of the tank. Get the fish used to this. Once used to it the fish should easily take what ever is dropped to it.
If on prepared foods DO NOT suppliment, but if still on Live foods as suggested earlier suppliment but only very little and occasionally. (And again forget the mice frozen or live it does nothing for the fish and has little point)
Thank's Polypterus,everybody knows i could google this stuff,but its usually forum-posts that usualy come up so i just ask,it saves time,plus i like personal experience better............thats why i come here
I was worried there for a few minutes. Things got heated but, back under control fairly quickly.
I'm going to go remove the combattive posts and see how this thread progresses.
BTW, Polypterus' drop feeding method worked on my LMBs, gars (tropicus and FL spotted), mbu puffers, tarpons, etc. I only feed out live minnows once a week now so I can provide missing nutrients through gut-loading (Vita-Chem laced pellets).
I'm going to go remove the combattive posts and see how this thread progresses.
BTW, Polypterus' drop feeding method worked on my LMBs, gars (tropicus and FL spotted), mbu puffers, tarpons, etc. I only feed out live minnows once a week now so I can provide missing nutrients through gut-loading (Vita-Chem laced pellets).
oddball.....you have a tarpon?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!? Whats the total gallonage,or biggest tank in your possesion
I'm not quite sure of total gallons anymore. It's gotta be up around 5,000gals in the fishroom lately. I'm setting up and popping another 1,500 gals of tanks this week and have 5 more 260s coming in.
The largest tank running now is the 650gal. It's holding some growouts including the 8 tarpons, 20"+ african aro, pair of tropical gars. 5 NGTs, 2 footlong albino irridescent sharks, 4 black irr sharks, footlong watermelon panaque, and a pair of footlong mbus.
I'm moving the tarpons into the 360 because they're too fast to allow the other fish to feed easily.
The largest tank running now is the 650gal. It's holding some growouts including the 8 tarpons, 20"+ african aro, pair of tropical gars. 5 NGTs, 2 footlong albino irridescent sharks, 4 black irr sharks, footlong watermelon panaque, and a pair of footlong mbus.
I'm moving the tarpons into the 360 because they're too fast to allow the other fish to feed easily.
Oddball,do you make them,and are they glass or acrylic..isn't building them the cheap way to go big???
It is unless you're patient enough to search out the sporadic deals that come up. I picked up an 8ft x 4ft 350gal acrylic for $220. My 360 acrylic cost me $200 on ebay. I picked up a 180 and 3 150s for $1 a gallon. A 285gal acrylic ran me $250 and the seller gave me a 1000gal wet/dry sump and a glass 82gal bowfront w/stand for free when I picked up the 285. The 650gal ran me just under $500 delivered. And, I paid $500 for a steel rack with 24 20gal tanks.
The deals are out there, you just have to be ready to pounce on them when the opportunity arises. I also advertise in a regional classifieds paper (free for 2 weeks). My ads run around the Xmas holidays and just before school ends (vacation money needed). The ad states:
WANTED. Glass or acrylic aquariums. 50gal or larger. Leaks OK. No cracks/breaks. Paying $1.00/gal. Call XXX-XXX-XXXX. All msgs answered.
Alot of people think I'm nuts for offering only a buck a gal. But, come the holidays, vacation time, or tax time, I always get calls.
The deals are out there, you just have to be ready to pounce on them when the opportunity arises. I also advertise in a regional classifieds paper (free for 2 weeks). My ads run around the Xmas holidays and just before school ends (vacation money needed). The ad states:
WANTED. Glass or acrylic aquariums. 50gal or larger. Leaks OK. No cracks/breaks. Paying $1.00/gal. Call XXX-XXX-XXXX. All msgs answered.
Alot of people think I'm nuts for offering only a buck a gal. But, come the holidays, vacation time, or tax time, I always get calls.
I'm so jealous.....thats all i can really muster right now,i-am-so-jealous Dude,i would kill.......KILL for these deals,i live in ,Mass and i dint see this stuff........but ill try hard,i dont mind acryllic,just dont scratch it. So do you think building them is a bad idea????
Dude,i would kill.......KILL for these deals,i live in ,Mass and i dint see this stuff........but ill try hard,i dont mind acryllic,just dont scratch it. So do you think building them is a bad idea????