Healthy Diet
- Thread starter Makoa
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For life, that could get really expensive! That's what my baby cichla are on right now but once they get bigger, carnivore pellets, shrimp, fish fillets, etc. will be easier on the wallet.
Bloodworms never keep my cichla full for very long.
Bloodworms never keep my cichla full for very long.
Think of it this way, will eating meat/potatoes be enough for you all your life? Mix their diet up as best you can, no one thing can offer them all the nutrition they need. I'd LOVE to get my Cichla on pellets but I really haven't tried yet. I feed mine a mix of tilapia filet/salmon filet/bloodworms/live. And even with feeding those 4 things, I still don't feel like they're getting a varied enough diet. They refuse to eat krill, haven't really tried much else with them.
The moral of the story is vary their diet as much as possible, just think how many pellets it'll take to fill a 20" pbass up, once they hit 8" or so, they really won't even eat bloodworms anymore as they're so small to them...
The moral of the story is vary their diet as much as possible, just think how many pellets it'll take to fill a 20" pbass up, once they hit 8" or so, they really won't even eat bloodworms anymore as they're so small to them...
The True Guapote;3186578; said:
well only the small ones will actually take the bloodworms so you were right about that but my P bass that are around 7"-8" will only take krill and nothing else just like other people I also have that problem. with the pellets they will hit them and just spit them out. in the past when i had 10 piranhas in a tank and i started feeding them filet and market bought shrimp my tank was getting infested with planaria and or coepopods (which look like little white worms). its usually caused from overfeeding and they are hell to get rid of and thats the reason i would rather just stick with the bloodworms and krill....thanks for reply i'll see what i can work out.