Newest choice for feeders: Electric Brown Peacocks!

[Red Devil]

i hear that...my lfs didn't have the feeders i usually get so i went against my first instinct and went to petsmart for some rosie reds and two days later my pike, midas and two plecos have all become ich hosts. i'm in the third day of the higher temp and salt treatment and things are looking alright. i'll keep ya posted on the outcome later this week.

I bought some feeder mollies .. just to save them because some were really beautiful gold black combination.. they all died within two weeks with disease.. thank goodness i always use a hospital tank for quarenteen.amagine the people who fed those to their fish...

 

[Red Devil]

Hmmm... interesting. I plan to upgrade tanks soon, so i will have an extra tank to breed fish in or do whatever.
Would it be logical to breed convicts as feeders for my artc?

If you need to feed feeders ..then raising them yourself it is the only safe way....
When you buy the breeders you will have to keep them a while to make sure they are healthy ..then if they are looking good ..their fry should be okay for your fish to consume..

 

[sandtiger]

True, but I am willing to bet the goldfish are in generally worse health. We've had these fish for months. That's why they gave them to me.

Could be but aren't all the tanks hooked up to one large filtration unit? That is how most LFS seem to do it. Even if they weren't RD makes a good point. Nets, siphons and other material could easily spread disease from one tank to another.
I won't use feeders. With all the frozen, freeze dried and pelleted foods out there I cannot think of a justifiable reason other then personal gratification. The only way I would use them is if I have an excess of my own fry or owned a fish that would take nothing else and I would still try my hardest to convert that fish.

 

[kiLLz kC]

i have juvie pbass and they won't strike anything that's not swimming. i dont have much of a choice. within the next two months i will be converting them to processed foods and market dinners.

now the tank with the pike and midas in it, they eat everything. i'm going to stop feeding them feeders all together.

btw, the ich has died down alot. the fish are acting normal and my plecos are doing well through the heat and salt treatment so far. when ich finds a host and "dies", does the spot it attached to become dry or remove a scale? my pike looks a little dry.

thanks again!

 

[Red Devil]

i have juvie pbass and they won't strike anything that's not swimming. i dont have much of a choice. within the next two months i will be converting them to processed foods and market dinners.

now the tank with the pike and midas in it, they eat everything. i'm going to stop feeding them feeders all together.

btw, the ich has died down alot. the fish are acting normal and my plecos are doing well through the heat and salt treatment so far. when ich finds a host and "dies", does the spot it attached to become dry or remove a scale? my pike looks a little dry.

thanks again!

I am glad everything turned out well for you with the fish..and that they are looking good again..i would watch the dry spot that it does not develope into anything more but i think it is just irritated maybe even from scratching from the ick .. they try to remove it themselves and he may have knocked the scale off in the process and it is scratched a bit..

 

[ewurm]

Could be but aren't all the tanks hooked up to one large filtration unit? That is how most LFS seem to do it. Even if they weren't RD makes a good point. Nets, siphons and other material could easily spread disease from one tank to another.
I won't use feeders. With all the frozen, freeze dried and pelleted foods out there I cannot think of a justifiable reason other then personal gratification. The only way I would use them is if I have an excess of my own fry or owned a fish that would take nothing else and I would still try my hardest to convert that fish.

Huh? I'm not going to eat any Brown Peacocks!

 

[bikeguy33]

I think that ....and this is just my opinion....most fish dont need feeders. to me it is cruel and i know for a fact if you never give feeders they don`t crave them. if you wanna give a treat, why not spare the poor feeders and give frozen bloodworm....

 

[ShadowBass]

I don't give feeders to any of my fish unless they absolutely won't eat anything else.

Learned my lesson after most of our africans got a pretty nasty case of internal parasites from some seemingly healthy tetras. I figured the tetras had been there for awhile, no external signs of disease, no sunken bellies so they'd be just fine. Well, apparently not since it took forever to completely rid my africans of those parasites and get their nice healthy bellies back.

If you're fish already eats prepared foods it's just not worth the risk to giving them live unless you're breeding them yourself.