Fishy foods?

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milkman407

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K, Well as you all know i have arowanas and i also have bichirs and outher bottom dwellers. Is there an easier way of feeding all of these guys that dosent cost so much $$

Right now there main food is arowana sticks,chichlid pellets, and for the bottom dwellers the sinking carnivorus pellets. But the arowana sticks are like 30$ a bag the chichlid pellets are cheap and than we got this lil bag of sinking carnicours pellets which have a rtc on the front and its like 36$.. so im spending around 100$ ( this includes shrimp and worms ) every 1-3 months. i'm gona be broke at this rate.. is their an easier way of feeding my fish and is it possible that you could help me find 2 types like 1 sinking for bottom dwellers and floating for the top dwellers. :) please and thankyou sorry if this is confusing i'm to lazy to fix my grammer..
 
go to the supermarket and but a bag of shelled shrimp. wask and chunk and their ready to go, the bichirs love them and the arows should too, just toss it near them and they will chow.hope this helps.
 
I was looking for something thats in like a big bag like those huge things of koi food but those dont sink.. I have alota shrimp left but everything in my tank seems to eat it before the bichir does. I'm gona take my bichirs out i think and keep them in my 20gallon long untill they get bigger than i'll make my 120gallon a bichir/something tank.
 
Get a piece of rigid tubing. Put one end near where the bichir hangs out, and have the other out of the water. When you feed just drop it down the tube to the bichir.
 
Yea, but i will still be buying the $$$ food constantly. cuz i got a lima and a knifefish who eat the **** outa the pellets.
 
10 pound bag of koi food is $18. 1lb of seafood mix at walmart is $3. Cutting the stuff up small enough for the bichirs is a pain though. Beef heart (Petty's Meats on 434 in Longwood) is cheap when you buy the whole thing. I havent' done this yet. YOu just have to have space in the freezer and a meat slicer wouldn't wouldn't hurt. Again, it is tadpole season. All you have to do is have tubs of rain water out in the back yard. If they get mosquito larva...fry food/feeder food. You have feeder grow out tanks, right? (I am going to tampa this weekend to get 8 fifteen gallon breeder tanks. 120 gallons for $40.)
 
well, you got some big fish in their... $100 for 2-3 months is a little high but then again you got big fishes... i spend $75 aprox for my fish food alone not including the cost of water, electric, and maintenance... i got some big dats and sold some out already. the only way to go is reduce your fish or feed them less however, this would make them thin and weak.:( no other way but sell them and just retain a few to feed.;)
 
thats what happen if u have a lot of fish! hahaha! SUFFEEEEEEEERRRR!!!!
lol j/k seriously tho i think thats every hobbyist's problem. market prawns/frozen small fish taht u can buy on a regular market will do it.
 
If i take my 2 5" bichirs out ( that means i gota catch them and that will be hard ) than feeding would be easy and i would save alota money, but i cant catch them lol. I'll try the shrimp more often and see how that works. But i think i'm gona buy a big bag of koi food for my top dwellers,middle dwellers.
 
milkman407;529285; said:
If i take my 2 5" bichirs out ( that means i gota catch them and that will be hard ) than feeding would be easy and i would save alota money, but i cant catch them lol. I'll try the shrimp more often and see how that works. But i think i'm gona buy a big bag of koi food for my top dwellers,middle dwellers.
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Get a piece of plexy/plastic a little wider & taller than your tank and use it as a divider. put it in the tank and slowly move to one side to narrow the catch space. If it's a planted get 2 pieces, put one in then put in the other to trap the fish in a smaller area, remove the first one and reposition it to cut the entrapment space again. Just leave enough space for your net :D

You can always use them as tank dividers later by mounting them with the front and back a half inch from glass for water flow.

Or you could just crate train them...:ROFL:

Dr Joe

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