feeding raphael

[GarNiac]

is it bad to over feed them?
I have 7 of them now, around 4" each, currently in a 40g tank, everytime I drop chunks of bloodworms, they take it right away, even in front of me, moments later, they are all fat, looks like puffers.
I swear it, they don't know how stop eating.

 

[krichardson]

I would let them digest the food and get their stomachs down between feedings,even if it is every other day.

 

[GarNiac]

I would let them digest the food and get their stomachs down between feedings,even if it is every other day.

yeah, cant imagine that they live only to eat and poop

 

[mahemaheman85]

yeah, cant imagine that they live only to eat and poop

and make whoopi

 

[studd muffin]

wow my spotted rapheal never comes out. how i feed my rapeal is i drop a hikari algea wafer and turn off the lights. wait for a few seconds and it comes out.

 

[GarNiac]

wow my spotted rapheal never comes out. how i feed my rapeal is i drop a hikari algea wafer and turn off the lights. wait for a few seconds and it comes out.

just to share it with U, this is how I set up their hiding place,

I added up more raphs recently, cause I cant get enough of them, I heard that they do well in groups, so every time I feed them they'll come out in groups, swim around the entire tank just to make their bellies fat.
I drop a table spoon of pellets this morning and I watch them finishing their meals within seconds.

 

[studd muffin]

yea i remember you posting that picture on my rapheal thread.

 

[GarNiac]

recently I've found a store which sells shrimp pellets with high protein and nutrition, I think the protein was around 38% or so, I am wondering if those pellets could make the raphs grows faster. Well I know that they grow very slow.

 

[pythonloose]

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reminds me of those japanese capsule hotels haha...

My raphs always steal food from all my other fish and end up fat too

 

[GarNiac]

reminds me of those japanese capsule hotels haha...

My raphs always steal food from all my other fish and end up fat too

lol, I'm upgrading their house now, which mean bigger tank and more raphs will be added soon.