Food for color

[dudey]

and one question would a fully grown pirana live with a fully grown red devil a nd red oscar

no..... either the red devil will prob kill the piranha, or the piranha will eventually take a bite out of them... piranhas should be kept in species only tanks, maybe with a catfish or pleco but thats also risky.


to get the best color and diet, feed pellets, shrimp, white fleshed fish, and store bought earthworms.

bellys color up as early as 2 inches and gets brighter as they grow.

 

[Veacane]

try hikari carnivore

 

[G-Code]

Cool. Thanks everyone. I guess I'll let them finish up these rosy's and keep them on a diet of bloodworms and earthworms until they grow an inch or so then start them with shrimp. Are the shell of the shrimp good for the piranhas?

 

[Armand]

no..... either the red devil will prob kill the piranha, or the piranha will eventually take a bite out of them... piranhas should be kept in species only tanks, maybe with a catfish or pleco but thats also risky.


to get the best color and diet, feed pellets, shrimp, white fleshed fish, and store bought earthworms.

bellys color up as early as 2 inches and gets brighter as they grow.

but that in case we are talking of a redbelly, if you are talking about a piraya or a rhmon, your other fish would be shreded apart slowly. Both of them would waste even your red devil for sure.


You can give the piranha the shrimps with shell although it is not the best option only if they are little enough to be taken in one or to bites.


Cheers.

 

[Fishermoe14]

the shell is good for them.. its just a matter of if they will eat it or not..

armand ill try uploading a few pics to my profile.

 

[dudey]

mine tended to leave most of the shell when they were smaller, now they devour it all. The shell is helps even more to bring out the color than the shrimp alone.

 

[frontosablkrhom]

And where the hell did he keep those reds?... in a buckett?.

Reds are a quite resistant spices and what you have stated your friend did with his reds just tells me about an outmost careless and ignorance regarding piranha keeping.


I have 6 reds I got them when they were 1.5" and know they range from 6" to 4.5" and are quite colorful. By now they are 7.5 months old.


By the way, casualties: 0.0

This is one of them:

i dont know what the heck he was doing they were all in a 40 gal but very very small when he got them. i dont understand how he could have lost so many either, the fish he gave me is now getting fat and swimming way healthier than when he had them he said he was doing everything i told him to do , but i dont think he was....

 

[G-Code]

Anyone use superworms to feed their red bellies? Yesterday I was at Petco in the frozen food section and noticed this food by Ocean Nutrition called Formula One. I read the front and it said Super color enhancing for Carnivorous/ Omnivorous fish. After getting home and looking closer on the back, it seems the food was developed to duplicate a natural coral reef diet. I put one of the cubes in my tank and my piranhas and crayfish loved them. Was wondering if its a good idea to continue feeding this food?

Ingredients:
Krill, plankton, gel binder, shrimp, spinach, clams, kelp, fish hydrolysate, tuna eggs, fish meal, squid, lecithin, vitamins (choline chloride, asorbic acid including stabilized vitamin C, vitamin E supplement, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, vitamin A acetate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B-12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, biotin), paprika, cantaxanthin, fish oil, trace elements (manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, sodium selenite) and astaxanthine.

 

[Armand]

Anyone use superworms to feed their red bellies? Yesterday I was at Petco in the frozen food section and noticed this food by Ocean Nutrition called Formula One. I read the front and it said Super color enhancing for Carnivorous/ Omnivorous fish. After getting home and looking closer on the back, it seems the food was developed to duplicate a natural coral reef diet. I put one of the cubes in my tank and my piranhas and crayfish loved them. Was wondering if its a good idea to continue feeding this food?

Ingredients:
Krill, plankton, gel binder, shrimp, spinach, clams, kelp, fish hydrolysate, tuna eggs, fish meal, squid, lecithin, vitamins (choline chloride, asorbic acid including stabilized vitamin C, vitamin E supplement, niacin, thiamine mononitrate, folic acid, calcium pantothenate, riboflavin, menadione sodium bisulfite complex, vitamin A acetate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, vitamin B-12 supplement, vitamin D3 supplement, biotin), paprika, cantaxanthin, fish oil, trace elements (manganese sulfate, zinc sulfate, copper sulfate, sodium selenite) and astaxanthine.

Hi Bud.


That food is ok I Guess, I mean if your fish and caryfish love them I find nothing wrong with that.

Just don´t keep feeding them juts this food, make their diet more interesting by feeding different kinds of food.


PD. P's love caryfish, mine eat them at once!!!!.


Cheers.

 

[G-Code]

I had them 3 days so far. I been feeding the Ocean Nutrition I mentioned above, frozen bloodworms, krill, rosy reds and Hikari cichlid Bio-gold. Their diet has been very diverse so far. I plan to try crickets, superworms, market shrimp, occasional beef heart and fruit. As soon as we get some warmer weather I will go catch some small perch for them. I am trying to figure out how to post some pictures in this thread for all too see...but it's not working out too good. Maybe I'll just upload them to my gallery.