There is nothing wrong with feeding beefheart. You should be feeding a varity of food, as many foods as you can.and there's no reason beefheart can't be fed just as much as any of the other foods you feed.nightcrawlers, pellets, silversides, shrimp, krill, fillets, leachea,beefheart, crawdads,convicts, other piranhas,ect. best to feed a couple different things a each feeding,with the least liked first n their favorite last.
p id please- not the rbps I was expecting
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The beef heart is what I already had and was the only meaty substitute on short notice to get them off feeder goldies. I just got back from fishing and managed to net a bunch of feeder sized shad as well as several bream I caught. I filleted the bream and it's all in the freezer now to kill any bacteria.
Thank you once again for all the input and ideas.
I should have the stand built Friday and will post pics once I get them into the 125g. I'm curious as to whether or not I should divide the tank in two. so The pygo shoal can have one side and the macs the other. Everyone is doing great now in one big shoal but I would hate to have a tribal war so to speak between the pygos and macs. Any thoughts or experience on pygo/mac shoaling?
Thank you once again for all the input and ideas.
I should have the stand built Friday and will post pics once I get them into the 125g. I'm curious as to whether or not I should divide the tank in two. so The pygo shoal can have one side and the macs the other. Everyone is doing great now in one big shoal but I would hate to have a tribal war so to speak between the pygos and macs. Any thoughts or experience on pygo/mac shoaling?
Best be careful feeding wild caught anything, I wouldn't recommend it.also freezing won't necessarily kill everything harmful. As for Macs n rbp, my Macs slaughtered my rbp I had with them n to ensure I didn't lose to many Macs I split all my up until they're past the cannibal stage(3"-4") but if your Macs aren't eating your rbp or each other yet I'd just roll with it.no need to change anything if nothing bads happening.
I understand that freezing wont kill all bacteria and that,according to Darwin, the new strains after thawing are more immune to freezing, I loved my microbiology class, but I don't understand how it is any different than the massive amount of frozen fish you can get at any pet store or grocery store, unless companies are treating the bacteria in millions of silversides everyday before they freeze them. Someone please enlighten me.
As for dividing, I suppose I should keep a divider at the ready just in case. Glad to hear there's a chance I wont have to split them up.
As for dividing, I suppose I should keep a divider at the ready just in case. Glad to hear there's a chance I wont have to split them up.
Just a note on freezing and the disinfection of food born pathogens. By and large food borne pathogens will not be killed by freezing. Heat is a much more effective method of disinfection because heat kills bacteria by desiccation. Freezing will eliminate the growth of a pathogen, and even kill some microorganisms through the mechanical destruction of the cell wall by ice crystal formation. However, on the whole it is not an effective means of bacterial disinfection.
yeah I get that, that's something you can learn in a food safety class from mcdonalds. My question is, what are frozen fish food companies doing that makes their frozen fish "safer"?
Let's be honest for a second, these fish are not being fed sanitized food in the wild so it's not like they don't encounter bacteria and pathogens all the time.
On a side note, I noticed I put "any bacteria" in that post. Please notice the time it was posted and gimme a break for cryin out loud.
Let's be honest for a second, these fish are not being fed sanitized food in the wild so it's not like they don't encounter bacteria and pathogens all the time.
On a side note, I noticed I put "any bacteria" in that post. Please notice the time it was posted and gimme a break for cryin out loud.
I don't know nor do I think necessarily that you're looking for sterile food to feed your fish. I just wanted to clarify for other people that might be reading this thread and haven't taken a food safety course at Mcdonalds.
That made me 
ha ha. My point wasn't that working mcdonalds makes you smart, it was that the uses of heat and cold are quite common knowledge, so much that even a mcd employee know about them. Unless the fish food companies are heating the silversides, I see no relevance to the topic.
Thanks diskboy
Thanks diskboy
