My group of 9 RHSD eat like pigs but I struggle to know if they are getting enough or too much. Never kept a fish with a body type like this before and they do a great job of hiding their bellies. Any advice?
Feeding red hook silver dollars. How can they eat so much?!
- Thread starter philipraposo1982
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I will be doing water changes daily at this rate... They are savage when it comes to feeding time, which is currently 2 times a day.
Herbivores tend to do better with a lot of low quality food. Cookeds pinach has a lot less bioload then fish or pellets and will fill them just as much (semi-blind stab here.)
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Drstrangelove
A good option IMO would be NLS AlageMax. Plenty of aquatic planter, but also all of the essential nutrients for quality growth. Feeding is part art, and part science, the correct amount will come with time and experience.
I been feeding them northfin veggie and some fresh veggies from the fridge. The eat some omega one cichlid pellets they steal from my festae too.
Fresh veggies primarily consist of water, so nutrient wise ounce for ounce they really don't compare to aquatic plant matter that's in a dry form. I use NLS AlgaeMax as my go to veggie food because it contains such a wide variety of aquatic plant matter. Northfin has kelp as the main ingredient, but it's a long ways down the ingredient list before you see any additional aquatic plant matter in that formula. But of course what you feed is your prerogative.
Northfin Veggie:
Kelp, Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, High Omega-3 (DHA) Herring Meal, Whole Sardine Meal, Wheat Flour, Spirulina, Garlic, Astaxanthin (Haematococcus Algae), Calcium Montmorillonite Clay, vitamins etc.
NLS AlgaeMax:
Ingredients. Algae; Chlorella, Ulva Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Kelp, Spirulina, Wakame Seaweed, Whole Antarctic Krill, Whole Fish, Eucheuma cottonii, Spinosum Seaweed, Chondrus crispus, Whole Wheat Flour, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Astaxanthin, Capsanthin, Zeaxanthin, vitamins etc.
Good luck.
Northfin Veggie:
Kelp, Whole Antarctic Krill Meal, High Omega-3 (DHA) Herring Meal, Whole Sardine Meal, Wheat Flour, Spirulina, Garlic, Astaxanthin (Haematococcus Algae), Calcium Montmorillonite Clay, vitamins etc.
NLS AlgaeMax:
Ingredients. Algae; Chlorella, Ulva Seaweed, Red Seaweed, Kelp, Spirulina, Wakame Seaweed, Whole Antarctic Krill, Whole Fish, Eucheuma cottonii, Spinosum Seaweed, Chondrus crispus, Whole Wheat Flour, Omega-3 Fish Oil, Alfalfa, Astaxanthin, Capsanthin, Zeaxanthin, vitamins etc.
Good luck.