Going bankrupt on feeder fish!!

[ziggyboy3d]

So I haven't been on the forum for a long time but my fish have all grown excessively huge and are eating me out of my house. Between my 2ft clown knife, 2ft silver arrowana, 2 X 2ft tire track eels, 1 1/2 ft fire eel, 1ft Dino Bichir, 1ft endlicher Bicher, 2 X 1ft Leporinus, 1ft MBU puffer, and my 5 synodontis catfish that have grown fond of feeder fish, I go through almost a thousand feeders a week. My delima is that all my fish except my knife and spiny eels will eat frozen sea food and other frozen foods but I cannot for the life of me find a food that the knife and eels will eat! So I have to buy feeders for them and to make sure that there are enough left for them I have to flood the aquarium. Right now its not too bad in monthly food bill because I am friends with the local fish shop owner and get an awesome discount but we are about to move and will not have such great of luck there . Oh and by the way there is also the pressing issue of them all out growing my 150 gallon aquarium. Please if any one has any ideas on what food they might eat please I have open ears.

 

[ElectricBlueSeanBurch]

I'm praying I misunderstood you, please tell me this stocklist isn't in a 150g

 

[aclockworkorange]

Good lord, what are your nitrates?

 

[Aqualoon]

I'm praying I misunderstood you, please tell me this stocklist isn't in a 150g

I read it the same as you, and that's what is in the 150g.

Since you're moving, care to revise your stock while you're at it to something more suitable for a 150g?

 

[ziggyboy3d]

Yeah I wish you misunderstood me too. I have had all these fish for about 2years, they were all purchased when they were very small like under 2-3 inches. Never did I imagine them growing as fast as they have and right now I dont have the space for a 300 gallon in current house. I have tried to find a better home for my fish but no one around me has tanks big enough to adopt one of my fish. I dk what to do..... I feel like a terrible person.

 

[aclockworkorange]

You've got WAY "bigger" problems than your feeder fish budget...

 

[pshtex]

make a pond and throgh in some natives that u can use as feeders

 

[aclockworkorange]

Have you tried the MFK classified section?

 

[ziggyboy3d]

With two fluval 400 filters and weekly water changes nitrates stay very low, they spike after feedings but I always do a change after a big feeder feeding. My MBU puffer never has shown aggression before but now is starting to nip at my leporinus and took a big chunk out of my endlicher.

 

[Aqualoon]

Have you tried the classifieds on MFK yet?