Thats exactly why crazyfish just said you should stop crickets if your aro eats regularly as theres a high chance they get addicted and wont accept anything else. Other than using them for stubborn aros, they're virtually useless as their nutritional value is close to nothing if they arent gutloaded...rhodes_96;4091882; said:
Overfeeding juvi RTG?
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Farm raised crickets are 21% protein, 6% fat before gutloading. That's hardly useless.
Superworms are about 19% protein and 16% fat.
Frog meat is about 22% protein and almost no fat.
Market shrimp is at about 20% protein and almost no fat.
(info sourced through google)
Superworms are about 19% protein and 16% fat.
Frog meat is about 22% protein and almost no fat.
Market shrimp is at about 20% protein and almost no fat.
(info sourced through google)
Now compare how much the mass of one cricket is to a market shrimp and how many crickets equals one market shrimp. How many crickets would you need to feed before getting the same amount of protein as one market shrimp. Even before that, how much more money would that cost you? Protein is also not the only thing you should be looking at. Most vitamins and minerals are also lacking from crickets, hence why they have pellets and food sticks on the market.Chaitika;4092118; said:
lol, I'm not saying it's a superior food. Just an option is all. I've had very little luck getting 2 out of my 3 aros to eat any pellets at all. They've been spoiled on shrimp. 
For a while I could stuff shrimp with pellets but they caught on to that and now spit out the pellets.
For a while I could stuff shrimp with pellets but they caught on to that and now spit out the pellets.yah my RTG rejected the Hikari Sticks again. Starved him for 2 days and still he won't eat the Hikari sticks. If you starved me for 2 days I'll eat anything! I tried krill and still he wouldn't eat after 2 days of eating nothing(i've bought $30 worth of krill and silverslides in the freezer! dammit! he better finish them). I just gave him Silver slides which eventually ate after they floated around the tank for a while and then after he finished the slides I fed him a few meal worms. My RTG is stubborn.
Think its a ok ideal to starve a 10" rtg for 3 days next week?
Think its a ok ideal to starve a 10" rtg for 3 days next week?
That sucks bro. I'm sure it should be ok to starve it for 3 days but at such a young age it should eat anything after being starved for that long. I've starved my 5" Datnoids for 3 weeks before to get them off of live and finally they accept most types of food now. For my RTG now I feed different foods everyday instead of stuffing it with superworms daily. Superworms 1 day, then market shrimp the next, and then pellets/krill third. I'll probabely take the advice of skipping 1 day of feeding then repeat. I also do alternating foods for my stock in my 450 but I don't feed daily. I only feed 3 times a week with foods of full raw market shrimp, full frozen Lake smelts, and hikari pellets. Also once in a while I'll throw in some anchovies just to clean up their digestive systems.
Crazyfish88;4092450; said:
Anchovies Clean their system?? really? how? Wow you got it all figured out for the whole weeks cycle huh... i think I'ma starve him again for 3 days next week and try hikari sticks again. But for now I'm gonna feed Slides first and if he's good and finishes the slides then I'll feed him the mealworms after.
This is kinda off topic but I want to get all of your opinion on this.... Are these bumps on his head healing bruises? My rtg did jump once and bumped his head when i accidentally dropped a mealworm on the glass top during feeding. I think the bruises are spreading. my RTG is still greeting me happyily when i come home and eating well/ swimming well. just these marks I'm worried about.
