How long can you keep a jardini on flakes?

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Jesseliu13

Jesseliu13

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So I got a golden jardini this summer. He's in a 125 with a bunch of other guys. He's about 6-7 inches. So the breeder originally fed it worms and live foods when i first bought it. Over the first 2 months it was hell but I finally got it on hikari sticks. Then past few months I've been trying to get it on varied pellets (from kens fish to nls to tetra). No luck. I have quite a bunch of fish in my overstocked 125 soon to be moved to a 300+. So just for the fun of it... I fed the entire tank earthworm flakes. My jardini readily eats earthworm flakes. At it like a fat kid and chocolate cake. But my silver arowana doesn't eat them. I am afraid of the slow growth of the jardini due to the lack of eating the pellets. How long can I keep my jardini on flakes? Considering it likes it so much I may as well keep feedin it that as a live alternative... But flakes are flakes. Should I just stop feeding it flakes and let it starve on pellets? Or keep feeding it till I run out of flakes and then starve it... I have about 1/4 pound left of kens earthworm flakes.


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My 30" black aro will still eat flakes.
 
Only feeding flakes isn't really good for much of anything. (Probably some specialist fish that need them I'm unfamiliar with.) I'd rather do appropriately-sized pellets.
 
Mount_Prion said:
Only feeding flakes isn't really good for much of anything. (Probably some specialist fish that need them I'm unfamiliar with.) I'd rather do appropriately-sized pellets.
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It doesn't seem to enjoy pellets... Considering it only 6-7 inches and not large in girth feel like it's the best food for him now. But of course when it gets larger I need it on pellets. I don't want my fish deprived of nutrients. Kens earthworm flakes has a large variety of nutrients that will be good got juvinile carnivores... But even so my jardini will need more sooner or later. The nutrition will deteriate over time but I need it to eat to atleast keep itself swimming. I'm afraid of starving the poor guy. I already went through 6 African arowanas starving them accidentally or they just are too stupid to find food.


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Bderick67 said:
No, flakes were never a staple except when it was just a couple inches. A variety of foods is best with a quality pellet being the staple.
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I have a silver, jardini, 2 oscars, Id shark, blood parrot, 4 different bichirs, 3 clown loaches, pleco, 2 clown knives in my 125. Yes I know extremely overstocked. But somehow I can manage to keep my water quality good with my trickle tower sump I made. But of course they will all grow huge. I am planning to put them in a 300+ possibly 500 gallon tank sometime in the spring. Late may is my planning financially. They all have adequate swimming room. My pellet variety pellet combination is nls floating, sera arowana, tetra cichlids color, hikari sticks, kens cichlids floating pellets, kens aquarium pellets, hikari gold, hikari staple. My clown knives and oscars and Id shark readily eats all of these. But my silver only eats hikari stick, sometime the nls. My jardini barely eats the hikaris sticks, and doesn't touch the other pellets.


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