The key to all this is variety, healthy feeders, and some vegetable matter.
Many people say "my fish eat nothing but massivore" like its some kind of accomplishment. Fish need MANY different types of food in their diets. They should have a few staples of different varieties of good pellets, at least one of which containing vegetable matter, and for most fish, feeders. And not alot of cyprinids for feeders. Cyprinids aren't very good feeders supposedly.
If you keep predatory fish, they should get feeders at least once a week. You're already keeping the fish in a glass box, but now you're not feeding it what it wants? I keep predators so i can see them hunt, that's why i like them. I'm sure a lot of others do as well.
If the feeders are kept in good conditions, then they're okay. You think fish don't get live food in the wild? The fish in the wild sometimes have parasites too, and sometimes the fish die, but fish have built up resistances to alot of parasites. If the feeders are healthy, gutloaded and not cyprinids too often, then they're okay.
My predators get:
Prawn or silversides stuffed with Tetra cichlid sticks, Massivore, or Wardley algae wafers. They get these every day of the week, with a day off every once in a while for digestion.
And.
Convicts i have breeding in our outdoor horse watering trough which is coated with algae and always has bugs falling in it. So the cons are gutloaded with vegetable matter. They get a few of these 2 or 3 days a week.
The vegetable matter is a hugely crucial part of our fish's diets that we're very often forgetting. The fish are always going to get some vegetable matter from their prey in the wild, the prey often are herbivorous. They need some vegetable matter in their diets.
Sorry for the rant.
Many people say "my fish eat nothing but massivore" like its some kind of accomplishment. Fish need MANY different types of food in their diets. They should have a few staples of different varieties of good pellets, at least one of which containing vegetable matter, and for most fish, feeders. And not alot of cyprinids for feeders. Cyprinids aren't very good feeders supposedly.
If you keep predatory fish, they should get feeders at least once a week. You're already keeping the fish in a glass box, but now you're not feeding it what it wants? I keep predators so i can see them hunt, that's why i like them. I'm sure a lot of others do as well.
If the feeders are kept in good conditions, then they're okay. You think fish don't get live food in the wild? The fish in the wild sometimes have parasites too, and sometimes the fish die, but fish have built up resistances to alot of parasites. If the feeders are healthy, gutloaded and not cyprinids too often, then they're okay.
My predators get:
Prawn or silversides stuffed with Tetra cichlid sticks, Massivore, or Wardley algae wafers. They get these every day of the week, with a day off every once in a while for digestion.
And.
Convicts i have breeding in our outdoor horse watering trough which is coated with algae and always has bugs falling in it. So the cons are gutloaded with vegetable matter. They get a few of these 2 or 3 days a week.
The vegetable matter is a hugely crucial part of our fish's diets that we're very often forgetting. The fish are always going to get some vegetable matter from their prey in the wild, the prey often are herbivorous. They need some vegetable matter in their diets.
Sorry for the rant.
