MONSTER FISH DIET??

[Laticauda]

When you feed carnivores a diet of only fish flesh, you are actually depriving them of some nutrition. While carnivores do not seek out vegetable matter, they get the nutrition of plant and other materials from the guts of the fish they eat. I think its important to feed a variety of different foods and to include a prepared formula of some kind, especially if all you are feeding is market fish.

Sometimes you can trick the fish into eating pellets by tossing a bunch of pellets in to the tank at the same time you toss in similarly sized pieces of fish meat. If your fish are too smart for that, then just make small slits in the fish meat and press a few high quality pellets into them.

Most predatory fish dont just eat the muscle of their prey, they eat the whole thing, scales, bones and guts, all important for complete nutrition.

I make home-made gelfood for my goldfish and tropical fish. It consists of greenery (kale + spinach, or mustard/turnip/collard greens) crushed up multivitamin (men's because it doesn't have added iron) crushed up probiotics pill, and protein sources. Generally I use mackerel + anchovies + sardines (all with bones) or salmon + anchovies + sardines (with bones.)

I fed this to my toadfish, and she ate it, but since it was easily "blown" apart, she blew most of it out of her gills, and I feel this leaves too much uneaten food in the water. This isn't a problem in my goldfish tanks or tropical tanks because I have small livebearers or corys that eat the stuff that flies off the main chunks the larger fish eat.

I haven't tried to get the eel to eat the gelfood, I imagine he would have a hard time eating it without it falling apart in his mouth. I suppose I could make a separate batch with much much more gelatin in it, to make it more "sturdy" during feeding time?

I do not like feeding pellets at all. There is not one pellet out there without a wheat or other grain filler, because they need something to bind it all together to make it into pellet form. That's just my personal opinion, especially since grains are no where to be found in the aquatic genome.

 

[rnbanjao]

well i'll try to feed pellets anyway to those in my monster tank that eat pellets.. otherwise they'll eat the other stuff... i wonder how long they will last