I just got a marbled cray a few weeks ago so I would have food for my fahaka. But it has yet to berry up. So I've just been getting little crabs from under rocks at the beach by my house and my little guy loves them!
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I went and got $0.50 worth of live small crayfish from the market and have about 20 of them for him to eat once they've been cleaned up.
Between crawfish season, infestation of apple snails I don't think I'm gonna have to be buying much food for my mbu.
Between crawfish season, infestation of apple snails I don't think I'm gonna have to be buying much food for my mbu.
^ you guys are lucky that you can find them food... I have trouble trying to even buy earthworms / nightcrawlers i. This town...
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Quoc, I like the idea. I feed my rays snails when they get some size to them (mts, ramshorn, pond). I'm sure they'd love marbled crays, too, if they are that simple to breed and gain size.
crays grow slow dude, nothing to be supplying a good enough meal for a growing fish. It was an idea but applying what I know about the CPOs and shrimp the fish would die of starvation or eat itself by the time I could breed out food for it.
I got word there is an infestation of apple snails locally in Houston so collecting and quarantining them would be a more viable option.
How you been peter? been a minute
I got word there is an infestation of apple snails locally in Houston so collecting and quarantining them would be a more viable option.
How you been peter? been a minute
If you are collecting aquatic snails and such, locally, I would suggest freezing them prior to feeding to your puffer. I would be concerned about snails and crays potentially vectoring parasites into a home aquarium. Not necessarily internal parasites as much as external ones or those which might use a snail or a cray as a host during some stage in the life cycle, then "take up residence" in your tank.
There is a freshwater clam, for example, in our area, that harbors one stage in the development of a gill fluke. When a fish swims close and cause the clam or mussel to suddenly shut, the larval flukes are then expelled in this jet of water and "inhaled" by the fish, where they then take up residence in the victim's gill tissue. I would hate to have something like this happen to our puffer. Freezing generally kills anything like that.
Just my 2-cents.
There is a freshwater clam, for example, in our area, that harbors one stage in the development of a gill fluke. When a fish swims close and cause the clam or mussel to suddenly shut, the larval flukes are then expelled in this jet of water and "inhaled" by the fish, where they then take up residence in the victim's gill tissue. I would hate to have something like this happen to our puffer. Freezing generally kills anything like that.
Just my 2-cents.
Their main diet consists of pellets (massivore). I just like to feed different stuff every so often. They get a lot of superworms, some market shrimp, some fish fillets, snails, etc. Just like to see their diets varied is all.
Been good, sold all my petros and trophs and went "monster". Now, really mostly rays. You need some.
I am looking for a baby ray as I type! I want to keep it in my 30g with all my tropheus/petros/MBU/cyps and my baby FRT
I believe in the "dwarfing" of fish. minimize their grow space and they'll fit in a small tank forever. LFS do it all the time with fish that don't get sold and no one seems to bash them, let a hobbyist do it and all the elitist are on you like white on rice.
