What food can I feed my 8.5 inch Del? I have been feeding him Sinking Cichlid Gold. What about cooked shrimp? What would you feed him?
Food for Del
- Thread starter The Masked Shadow
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I feed mine a variety of foods ,mostly fish and seafood but I add in pellets or a vitamin B1 supplement to make sure they get all the nutrients they need.I feed shrimp,squid,mackerel scad,tilapia,surgeonfish and tilapia.I would feed salmon too but it isn't available here ( very oily though).Pellets - hikari carnivore pellets and hikari mini cat pellets.Cooked shrimp doesn't have as much nutrients as raw shrimp,don't feed shrimp as a staple unless you feed pellets or soak in vitachem as a form of vitamin B1.
That’s what I thought.
What is the healthiest food you can give? And also, how is sturgeon available, yet salmon isn’t? Is it because you live in a place with sturgeon cultivation or something?
Nope I meant 'surgeon fish'. I believe these are called the 'striped surgeon fish' -
I think most members from the Us feed tilapia since it's easily accessible there.
I think most members from the Us feed tilapia since it's easily accessible there.
I have two that are 9” and they eat all sorts of stuff. Raw shrimp, tilapia, Whole 3” smelt, night crawlers, mealworms, crickets and pellets I think tilapia and worms are the best thing
The Masked Shadow
yes should be. I gave all my fish some halibut and rockfish that we caught on a trip to alaska.
Could I give him frozen rockfish - from maybe a month or 2 ago - too him? Frozen squid? Would this kind of frozen squid work? Oh, and frozen raw shrimp?
MY dels love frozen shrimp. I think the other two would be fine in limited quantities. Dont make it a staple maybe 1-2 times a month