Good for you but in most cases, they prefer to be starved to death than touch a pellet.
is it wrong to feed fish live food
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If a lot gets spit out then maby live food is the best for you? pellets getting spat out round the tank cant be good for water quality just my opinion. Would think bite sized convicts would be less messy for your tank
Of course it's not good to have chewed up food left in the tank but I don't leave it in there and the tank is a bare bottom grow out tank so the water is changed quite often...If a lot gets spit out then maby live food is the best for you? pellets getting spat out round the tank cant be good for water quality just my opinion. Would think bite sized convicts would be less messy for your tank
Nothing wrong with trying get them converted from live foods to frozen/prepared foods. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't worked.If a lot gets spit out then maby live food is the best for you? pellets getting spat out round the tank cant be good for water quality just my opinion. Would think bite sized convicts would be less messy for your tank
Right, and giving in and giving the perch any kind of feeder fish defeats the purpose of training it to eat pellets.
yup once you gave them a feeder fish after you trained them to take pellets, they will go back to the live foods and rejecting pellets again. Happens lot to me. I've had some fish died of starvation when trying to get them on prepared foods.
Also some species required live foods for breeding purposes such as Pike Livebearers. They can take flakes but is incapable to produce live fry unless they are introduce to live foods.
Quick answer is no.
With that said there have been a lot of great points brought up about various pellet foods, personal cultures that should be explored as well.
I have a few viewpoints on it. First being that fish in the wild are subject to instant death on a daily basis based off the natural cycle of things. If you're higher in the food chain you eat "live food" and if you're not then you are likely food. Of course we aren't in nature, we're containing these fish to a relatively small space thus giving the predators a better shot at the kill. Now I only feed my fish frozen foods on a treat basis and keep their diets based off of pellets, veggies, flakes, etc. depending on the species. I don't think your classic feeder fish are the best way to feed your fish live food. Just look at the tanks that they are stocked in and make your decision from there. Now if you are breeding for feeder fish at least you are controlling the environment.
AnyWays just a short rant but I think the different views from other posters should help make an informed decision.
With that said there have been a lot of great points brought up about various pellet foods, personal cultures that should be explored as well.
I have a few viewpoints on it. First being that fish in the wild are subject to instant death on a daily basis based off the natural cycle of things. If you're higher in the food chain you eat "live food" and if you're not then you are likely food. Of course we aren't in nature, we're containing these fish to a relatively small space thus giving the predators a better shot at the kill. Now I only feed my fish frozen foods on a treat basis and keep their diets based off of pellets, veggies, flakes, etc. depending on the species. I don't think your classic feeder fish are the best way to feed your fish live food. Just look at the tanks that they are stocked in and make your decision from there. Now if you are breeding for feeder fish at least you are controlling the environment.
AnyWays just a short rant but I think the different views from other posters should help make an informed decision.
